Featured image courtesy NewsFirst On November 24, two youth were questioned in Vavuniya around posts they had made on Facebook. One of the photos was of the Divisional Secretariat of Vavuniya North,…
Featured image courtesy Anton Croos Recently the famous tusker, “Dala Puttuwa” of Galgamuwa was killed by poachers, renewing the public discussion around the ongoing human -elephant conflict in Sri Lanka. Investigators found…
Featured image courtesy Selvaraja Rajasegar The following is the translation of a story by Selvaraja Rajasegar, editor of Maatram (click here and here to view the series in Tamil). As of today,…
Featured image courtesy president.gov.lk On November 8 President Maithripala Sirisena called the irregularities around the Central Bank bond issue a “maha vinashaya” (a huge destruction) and said that those behind it must accept…
Vijay Nagaraj, who passed away in a tragic car accident in August, was someone I interacted with for around six years. We didn’t meet regularly, yet when we did, we carried on…
Featured image courtesy Sri Lanka Brief On November 8, 2017 news began to spread that website Lankaenews had been blocked across all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Sri Lanka. The website itself…
Featured image courtesy the Scribe Project In November 2015, I sat in a small circle of plastic chairs outside a rustic hotel in Sri Lanka’s coastal town of Ambalangoda. Against a backdrop…
Even before the end of the war in 2009, but certainly after it, conversations on society, politics, culture, religion and other vital matters are moving online to digital spaces, or are increasingly…
Featured image courtesy The Wired/Charlie Surbey The start of August saw silent vigils in Male – the capital of the Maldives – to mark the 100th day since the death of liberal…
‘Colombo – the making of a world class city’, a photography exhibition that interrogates and critiques post-war city making in Colombo opens this weekend at the Global Voices Summit 2017 at Trace…
How much do we remember of the time before the internet? How much of ourselves will we leave behind because of the internet, and how much of this do we imagine we…
Featured image courtesy the author – A slogan written by ‘night commandos’, “Referendum is democracy. Vote 1st October” Background of the Catalan Referendum On 28th June 2010, the Supreme Court of Spain…
Featured image courtesy Adithya Ailes/InterPress News To understand the process of indirect colonisation of the non-white countries in Asia and Africa is to work through the splitting of society in two. When…
Featured image provided by author, of her maternal grandfather and relatives The Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) is in need of amendment and has been under the scrutiny of a most…
Featured image courtesy Amila Tennakoon/Global Voices The international citizen media network, Global Voices, will be holding their biennial Summit in Colombo, Sri Lanka on December 2-3, 2017. The event will take place…
