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The middle finger to the middle-path in Sri Lanka
A week ago, we disgraced ourselves. Racist louts, some in the garb of Buddhist monks, engaged openly in speech and...
Continue reading »Are Chinese Telecoms acting as the ears for the Sri Lankan government?
The title is inspired by the article Are Chinese Telecoms Acting as the Ears for Central Asian Authoritarians? published in Eurasianet.org,...
Continue reading »In conversation with Shashi Tharoor at Galle Literary Festival
As part of the Galle Literary Festival, I had the opportunity to speak with Shashi Tharoor, whose writing I’ve immensely...
Continue reading »Optics and politics of grief
Photo courtesy asianews.it “I was on my motorcycle going through this area behind a couple on a motorcycle. The woman was...
Continue reading »The Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA): What implications for Sri Lanka?
There are a lot of websites in the US that have gone black to protest against the proposed Stop Internet...
Continue reading »Review of ‘Right of Way: A journey of resettlement’
I was delighted when asked to review Right of Way: A journey of resettlement by Sharni Jayawardena and published by...
Continue reading »Milinda Moragoda’s ‘Right to Information’: A sordid record of its real nature and limits
The Hansard of 20th September 2011 records a question posed by Dr. Harsha de Silva in Parliament over the campaign...
Continue reading »Fundamental questions for AJM Muzammil and the UNP
Last Friday, I was slated to interview the UNP’s Mayoral candidate AJM Muzammil on public television. After his media manager...
Continue reading »Hacking mayoral campaign promises
Photo from Asian Mirror In Open-source policy formulation for Sri Lanka’s capital, an article published on the Lanka Business Online website...
Continue reading »Milinda Moragoda: The gap between promise and reality
Milinda Moragoda’s on-going mayoral campaign is interesting on many counts. Particularly appealing to me is that it is extremely web...
Continue reading »Joshua Roman in Sri Lanka
I met Joshua Roman, a TED Fellow, at TED 2011. TED audiences are very hard to please. Because of the...
Continue reading »The continuing disinformation campaigns in Sri Lanka: Is mainstream media complicit?
For the second time in a fortnight, subscribers to the Daily Mirror newspaper have been entreated to an interesting disinformation...
Continue reading »A review of ‘The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lankan & The Last Days of the Tamil Tigers’
I was elated to take delivery of my copy of The Cage by Gordon Weiss yesterday. Having pre-ordered it off...
Continue reading »From draft to official text: Wikileaks reveals the US response to the end of war in Sri Lanka
The Norwegian newspaper Afterposten published on 7th May a cable from the Wikileaks tranche of US diplomatic cables (confidential briefings) dealing...
Continue reading »A review of (Un)making Time: ‘My Other History’ and ‘Rondo’
Image from ‘Rondo’ Image from ‘My Other History’ “We are all capable of believing things which we know to be...
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