Personal page and articles by Suren Raghavan
Bodu Bala Senā and Buddhism’s militant face in Sri Lanka
Image courtesy Mirror website One of the first things I had to do in the new year was to firmly remind...
Continue reading »Democratic Debates in 2011
I am not aware of another county in the UN’s 200 odd membership that debates on its national anthem some...
Continue reading »Radical Reforms in Sri Lanka: Realities we are afraid of?
Enough conceptual theories are produced and articulated on the need and urgency of the political power sharing in Sri Lanka....
Continue reading »Imagining the immediate (im)possibilities
Preamble My last reflection on the immediate possibilities of state power sharing had an unusual over 25,000 readers generating 77...
Continue reading »Delusions of (power) devolution: Searching post–Prapa possibilities
The elite based political debate in Sri Lanka once again appears to gravitate around the primordial issue of deciding the...
Continue reading »Demographic Assimilation vs Democratic Accommodations: An analysis of Sri Lanka’s first post war election results
The first post war election results generates some serious propositions regarding the future of democracy in Sri Lanka in general,...
Continue reading »Designing democracy: A post-Prabhakaran future
Was/is he an ethnonational liberation fighter, an egocentric megalomaniac or an unschooled political protagonist? Depending on the perspectives they would...
Continue reading »Four things done, Four things undone: The self-immolation of the LTTE Part 2
A Brief Preface Some of my friends were worried that through the previous articles I may have inadvertently ‘’caught the...
Continue reading »Four things done, Four things undone: The self-immolation of the LTTE
It is clear, even amongst the most liberal of the western political academic circles that the end of the LTTE...
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