Personal page and articles by Ranil Senanayake
Is Sri Lanka’s Road to Rio +20 Paved with Lies?
March 12 1997 was a dark day when personal power was used to subjugate not only national laws but also...
Continue reading »Where do we come from?
Photo by author The current controversy on the identity and significance of the series of mounds linking Rameshwaram in India...
Continue reading »A Vision for Our Nation
Photo by the author There is a vision of our land that has persisted over three millennia and is ingrained...
Continue reading »Oil, Coal, Gas and Carbon: Fundamental Truths From Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous people know the reality of fossil energy. The Shuar peoples of Amazonian Ecuador, under whose territories lie huge reserves...
Continue reading »Desertification and Biodiversity
Photo courtesy NASA The link between land degradation and desertification has been made abundantly clear in studies conducted in Africa...
Continue reading »Of Symbols, Identity and Sovereignty: The Sri Lankan flag and us
A discussion. I thought of him as the speaker of the flag He said We Sinhalese are the people of...
Continue reading »The Loss of Identity: Development and Agriculture
The ecological impact of increasing energy input into a system has been well documented. In any ecosystem an increase in...
Continue reading »Can Sri Lanka propose a New Growth Paradigm?
The discussion on ‘ Economic Development’ as a national goal, must demonstrate a perspective strongly rooted in modern science. However,...
Continue reading »Accountability and Universal Values in Development
Photo courtesy World Bank “If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a politician, even if you can’t...
Continue reading »Killing us slowly
When we ask the question, who uses pesticides? Followed by the question who promotes pesticides? It is relatively simple to...
Continue reading »Agricultural Madness
(Photo credit: Claude Dupuis, IDRC-CRDI) The current ‘development’ madness that affects agriculture also prevails over agricultural research and does not bode...
Continue reading »Packets of White Powder
Photo courtesy Arsenic and toxins found in baby rice food – what you need to know Suddenly, scores of packets of...
Continue reading »Climate Change
Image from Climate Change Adaptation Sri Lanka While awaiting to hear of the brilliant contributions that Sri Lanka has made to...
Continue reading »Restoring Shelter
The World Meteorological Organization, part of the United Nations, have just stated that the warmest 13 years of average global...
Continue reading »Desire, Violence and Leadership
Image courtesy Canadian Lawyers Abroad’s Blog It is the human being that should be the primary concern of any development programme. ...
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