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It is a hostage crisis, stupid!
Image courtesy The Telegraph The Sri Lankan military is dealing with probably the largest hostage crisis in world history. Sri...
Continue reading »Barack Obama: Hope for America, but not for the world?
Photo credit: CurrentTV Barack Obama has run perhaps the best organized and most inspiring of presidential campaigns in US political...
Continue reading »‘Baaldhiya’ or ‘Vaaldhiya’: Two Wor(l)ds Separated by a Consonant
I don’t think I had the slightest inkling of a problem between the sinhala and tamil people in Sri Lanka,...
Continue reading »Media analysis and the chutzpah of the Sri Lankan government
The quality of chutzpah has been described vividly as a boy who murders his parents and pleads with the judge...
Continue reading »News Flash: I was not visited by a pink elephant
Yesterday, the front pages of several English papers the Daily Mirror and the Daily News amongst them carried an intriguing...
Continue reading »Doing Business with Myanmar
The Daily Mirror on 29 August 2007 reports a high-level meeting at Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) between state and...
Continue reading »A question to the government and the LTTE
What place is home for Tamil, Muslim and Sinhala Sri Lankans? Home is the place where, when you have to...
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