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Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Culture

In conversation with Tharanga Goonetilleke

Tharanga Goonetilleke is a Juilliard-trained Sri Lankan opera singer who has sung internationally, including with the New York City Opera, at Carnegie Hall and the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka while providing…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 10/23/2017
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, International, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The Rohingya in our midst: Learning from the vulnerable

Photo by REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain via Newsweek A Reflection The Rohingya in our midst brought out the worst in some of us. The aggression of a mob that sought to intimidate and deny…

Bishop Duleep de Chickera Bishop Duleep de Chickera on 10/23/2017
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

Remember? Remember!

Featured image from Corridors of Power project ‘Motherland is in danger,’ it is claimed, again. The words are familiar, echoes from the late 1980’s. Sixty-thousand died in the South, it is said,…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 10/22/2017
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, International, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Countering the Fascists on the Streets: A Lesson from Australia

Photo by Christina Coombe The recent attack by a group of hoodlums led by Buddhist monks on a safe house sheltering Rohingya refugees in Colombo has once again exposed the ugly face…

Channa Wickremesekera Channa Wickremesekera on 10/04/2017
Colombo, Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

A womb of one’s own: Life, abortion and motherhood in Sri Lanka

Photograph: Paul Mezzer/FRF/Getty via The Irish Times From well-intentioned comments about our weight and skin colour, to the insidious experience of being followed as we walk on the street, women are wearily…

Meghal Perera Meghal Perera on 09/23/201710/01/2017
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition in Kurunegala

Royal International School Auditorium, Kurunegala 23 (Saturday) & 24 (Sunday) September 2017, from 10am-5pm daily Entrance free. Interactive, guided tours of the exhibition by the Curator will be conducted on both days…

Groundviews Groundviews on 09/18/201709/23/2017
Colombo, Development, Economy, Gender, Politics and Governance, Poverty

Unpaid Care Work: The Overlooked Barrier in Women’s Economic Empowerment

Photograph via video produced by Institute of Development Studies There is broad consensus that women’s empowerment underpins the success of the new 2030 Agenda for Development (also known as the Sustainable Development Goals)….

Anarkalee Perera Anarkalee Perera on 09/15/2017
Advocacy, Colombo, Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights, Religion and faith

The Abortion Debate: Mismatched and Misplaced?

Image courtesy Asia Society I once came into contact with a woman on account of a professional relationship we had. We had met to discuss her prolonged absence from work. With a…

Dinesha Samararatne Dinesha Samararatne on 09/13/201710/01/2017
Colombo, Development, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

We need to talk about that e-NIC project

“The national identity scheme represents the worst of government”  said Theresa May, the then UK Home Minister. introducing a bill to scrap the national biometric ID scheme in the UK .  “It…

D.A. Jayamanne D.A. Jayamanne on 09/01/201709/01/2017
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

“We vehemently refuse to be deceived again”: Protests by families of disappeared, continuing abductions and empty promises

Photography from Sri Lanka Brief Above was the last line in a press release issued on 17th August, by Association for Relatives for Enforced Disappeared in Kilinochchi district, at a press conference…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 08/30/201708/30/2017
Colombo, Corruption, Politics and Governance

The significance of Ms. Anika Wijesuriya’s evidence: What should we request from President Sirisena now?

Photo courtesy Getty Images, via Sri Lanka Mirror As the media predicted last week, alluding to an off-guard comment made by a junior member of the Attorney-General’s legal team of the Presidential…

Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda on 08/09/201708/09/2017
Colombo, Development, Economy, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

On religion, intolerance and economic prosperity

Photo by Dominic Sansoni Some moons back, in the course of a conversation with an overseas-based Sri Lankan academic who was then in Colombo on a short vacation, I was struck by…

Ayesha Zuhair Ayesha Zuhair on 08/01/2017
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government: Taking Selfies on the Rail-track

Photo courtesy Business Times “…a longing for a new authoritarianism with some kind of religious orientation and above all a greater communal belongingness.” Fritz Stein (National Socialism as Temptation) Post-Rajapaksa Sri Lanka…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 07/16/201707/16/2017
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Transitional Justice

Full Statement by Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, at the conclusion of his official visit

Preliminary findings of the visit to Sri Lanka Colombo (14 July 2017), The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Mr. Ben…

Groundviews Groundviews on 07/15/2017
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Sri Lanka’s current political impasse: Some additional thoughts

Photo courtesy News In Asia Editors note: Read in conjunction with Sri Lanka’s deepening political crisis: Not losing an opportunity to lose another opportunity by the same author. Sri Lanka has entered…

Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda on 07/04/201707/04/2017

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