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Remembering Raviraj
Nadarajah Raviraj would have celebrated his 46th birthday this year. In the spirit of citizens’ journalism, unionblackcolombo remembers his friend, killed...
Continue reading »The persuasive power of numbers (Part 2): “54 per cent of Tamils live outside the North and East”
My earlier article (The persuasive power of numbers and the mystery “8.5%” figure) highlighted the dangers of using incomplete census...
Continue reading »The persuasive power of numbers and the mystery “8.5%” figure
Having decided to write in to Bloomberg.com for including what looked like a clear underestimation of the proportion of Tamils...
Continue reading »The Storyteller
I first met him in 2004 and liked him immediately. His storytelling was a joy to experience. On our journeys...
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