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We will no longer tolerate …
It seems that students from the Sri Lankan diaspora are getting activated. An email is doing the roungs urging people...
Continue reading »Mahinda – Better than G.W Bush ?
Photo credit: Al-Jazeera A friend recently forwarded me this story – an interview featuring the Sri Lankan President on Al...
Continue reading »(non) Patriotic (non) Nationalism
These thoughts are triggered by the call for a Sri Lankan identity. I am not convinced that Sri Lanka’s problems...
Continue reading »Self Colonising …
Recently, I noticed an Q&A style article titled “India Is Colonising Itself” by Arundhati Roy and Shoma Chaudhuri. I thought...
Continue reading »Flying Tigers…
From Australia: This image occupies almost half a page in the World section of today’s Age – the leading paper...
Continue reading »Asylum Seeking Downunder…
The 82 Sri Lankan asylum seekers are making news in Australia. They haven’t been sent to Indonesia to be ‘processed’...
Continue reading »Liberation and Relief
I haven’t heard Crowded House play on the radio here before, but the other day, while driving, the sounds and...
Continue reading »Remembering the tsunami – along the south coast…
A couple of days ago (26th), I travelled along the South Coast, leaving Colombo early in the morning. I was...
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