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Though the barbed wire, I am looking down the road of memory. Selvam, my Selvam, I am waiting for you...
Continue reading »Now our New Year has no moon
The moon rises to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Dreaming, I take the rifle and shoot my own heart....
Continue reading »If you cannot protect your people, why should the sun rise on your country?
Missing for over 300 days On 25th November, far away from my motherland, I rang Sandya Eknaligoda to ask her, How...
Continue reading »Broken Pottu
An infant in Menik Camp. Many thousands of the IDP children have lost both their parents comes news from the...
Continue reading »We do not know what no one can deny: Stephen Champion’s Lanka War Stories
On 4th February 2008, as the government celebrated the 60th anniversary of our independence from Britain, it struck me strongly...
Continue reading »Memories of a Black Moon – the 1983 riots in Sri Lanka
More than two and a half decades later, one of my friends has asked to interview me about the ’83...
Continue reading »Travels in a Militarised Society 6 – Strolling along Ward Place, Colombo
It is 10th December 2007, Human Rights Day. I am taking a stroll along Ward Place from Boralla to Lipton...
Continue reading »Travels in a Militarised Society – 5
Again Boralla I do not remember how many times I crossed the Boralla Junction in my life but I do...
Continue reading »Travels in a Militarised Society – 4
Human Rights Watchdogs, Neo-colonialism and the Stray Dog Population of Colombo International human rights organisations accuse the Sri Lanka government,...
Continue reading »Travels in a Militarised Society – 3
In Colombo Again – November 2007 In Bambalapitya, I am texting a friend while crossing the road. A man in...
Continue reading »Travels in a Militarised Society — 2
Anudhradapura District, mid October 2007 The huge, busy conurbation of Anudharapura—once a sacred city—has become the major transit centre for...
Continue reading »Travels in a Militarised Society — 1
Boralla Junction, Colombo – October 2007 I am waiting for a bus holding a small transparent plastic bag of fruit...
Continue reading »Daratt (Dry Season) – Realistic and Symbolic drama in a post-war terrain
What can we learn as Sri Lankans from this excellent Chadian film that deals so profoundly with the social and...
Continue reading »Song of the Sleepless River: Music, racism and resistence
In the past two months Hugh Masekela and Afroreggae have given sold-out concerts in the Barbican. But this note is...
Continue reading »Protecting Culture or Fishing in Troubled Waters?
“What a Life, What a Time, What a Country!†An email arrives from my friend Sathyajith Maitipe. He has just...
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