The adhan call resonates. The residents of Marichchukkaddi in Musali stop speaking and bow their heads in prayer. For five minutes, peace prevails. The only sound is that from the green banners…
Groundviews was sent a leaked copy of what we were told, and to the extent we could verify, is a copy of the proposed amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure (Special…
Photograph courtesy SBS Australia “A structure built on human callousness will inevitably collapse in on itself”. Avraham Burg (IHT – 6.9.2003) The first omens of the Meetotamulla tragedy appeared in 2011, when…
Featured image courtesy Sri Lanka Brief This fascinating autobiography of Vijaya Vidyasagara edited by Skantha Kumar and Marshal Fernando and published by the Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue is excellent reading. Priced at…
Featured image courtesy Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte The Meethotamulla tragedy has brought back the politics of garbage to every screen, newspaper and radio. Street protests are happening around every garbage dump. Modern day popular…
Featured image by Ami Vitale/National Geographic When you tell people in Washington that you’re following Sri Lanka, you might get a strange look. You might get something worse than that. But you…
Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte—Reuters, via Time magazine On the afternoon of 14th April tons of garbage at Meethotamulla, one of the biggest dumping sites just outside Colombo, came crashing down destroying scores…
Featured image courtesy Sri Lanka Air Force In 2012, I visited Madampitiya to help with research for a friend’s thesis. The subject was the spread of disease in this area, situated close…
Featured image courtesy Maatram ACJU’s latest media statement on the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) does not mention anything about altering their previous position. In other words they are still right….
Photograph courtesy UNDP, Palmyrah Processing Centre, Naruvilikulam, Mannar, Sri Lanka There is a movement around the world that is clamouring for the recognition of an extensive catalogue of positive social, economic and cultural…
Featured image courtesy Gwenael Piaser/DBS Jeyaraj.com Through the ping of a tweet and a quick scan of the media, I’ve been alerted to a polarising constitutional debate in Sri Lanka. The debate…
Featured image courtesy Tamil Guardian The Gazette Notification issued on the 24th of March 2017 declared four forest areas North of the Wilpattu sanctuary as reserves, preventing Muslim Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from…
Featured image courtesy the authors My father, my father’s father and my father’s grand-father have lived here. Mullikulam has been our home for generations now. Our church was made during my great-grand-father’s…
Image courtesy Al Jazeera Prof Pratap Bhanu Mehta, an eminent Indian Political scientist shared his insights into incorporating socio-economic rights in the new constitution in Sri Lanka recently. Speaking at a public…
Photograph courtesy Sri Lanka Brief In Sri Lanka, the age of marriage for Muslims girls is 12 years old. We are currently having a discussion on raising it to 18 to be…
