NO WAY, MR. RAJAPAKSA
Photo by AP Photo/Sanka Gayashan, via Japan Times A slogan from one of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s campaign websites for tomorrow’s election reads, “Let’s start afresh”. Looking at it harder, the slogan is as…
Author: Nigel Nugawela
Stand Athwart Censorship in Sri Lanka
In Tom Stoppard’s superlative play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Ros shouts “Fire!” and when questioned by Guil, Ros reassuringly responds, “It’s all right – I’m demonstrating the misuse of free speech….
LIVE AMMUNITION AND CITIZEN ENEMIES
Photo courtesy www.dbsjeyaraj.com If the time ever does come for a comprehensive evaluation of security policies and legislation adopted during the privation and emergencies of war and the peacetime ‘stability’ of a…
‘BE YOUNG AND SHUT UP!’: A COURSE IN CIVIC DISENGAGEMENT
‘Sois Jeune et Tais Toi’ – Be Young and Shut Up, May 1968. Image from Qwiki. It is always intriguing to revisit the ideas of Paul Goodman; not exclusively for his writing…
A review of the Gaza Monologues
Photo courtesy of Ruvin de Silva , 2010 ‘I feel that all of Gaza is sitting on moving sands. Any madness you can imagine can happen in a second in this place,…
Happy International Peace Day
Click for larger image. Photographs above are of the Separation Wall at the Bethlehem-Jerusalem border in Israel. When I took these pictures last year, I knew I was standing in front of…
Have we faltered in Sri Lanka?
‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’. Edmund Burke Pictures of Sri Lankans mourning the victims of the bomb blasts in the past…