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Year: 2009

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Colombo, Diplomacy, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

A brief response to a charge of mercenary intellectualism

[Editors note: This is a response by Dayan Jayatilleke to a recently published article by Prof. Peter Schalk of Uppsala University, Sweden, who identified four western educated individuals hired by the Government…

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka on 12/31/2009
Disaster Management, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

Who’s Afraid of Amateur Radio? Tsunami’s heroic technology has few backers in Sri Lanka

Five years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, amateur radio helped revive emergency communications with some of the worst affected locations. The decades old practice was hailed as…

Nalaka Gunawardene Nalaka Gunawardene on 12/31/200912/30/2009
Elections, Jaffna, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Exploring the Myth that the Tamil vote will be the decider at the Presidential Elections

Two Tamil Dailies Thinakkural and Uthayan (Jaffna) carried yesterday a headline report of retired Supreme Court Justice C.V. Wigneswaran’s opinion on whom the Tamils should vote for at Presidential elections. (Justice C….

Aachcharya Aachcharya on 12/30/200912/29/2009
Colombo, Economy, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, War Crimes

Between a Horek and a Mule

Over 6 decades of independence and universal adult franchise and SL has reached probably the lowest points of its political life. Listening, reading and drawing inferences from what’s coming out and not…

Sudat Pasqual Sudat Pasqual on 12/30/200912/27/2009
Colombo, Elections, Language, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance, Post-War

‘Uncivilising’ Sri Lanka

The SLPC Chairperson, Hudson Samarasinghe, is using vulgar telecasts and thereby contributing to the degeneration of language and public discourse within the country. The rudest forms of language used to refer to…

Basil Fernando Basil Fernando on 12/29/200912/27/2009
Colombo, Identity, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Blinkered vision of Tamil nationalists and socialists is self-defeating

[Editors note: This article responds to key points raised by several noted commentators on the author’s previous article here.] There’s one important lesson to be learnt from the presidential campaign so far:…

Vasantha Raja Vasantha Raja on 12/29/2009
Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

An Allergy To Self-Criticism In Dominant Tamil Discourse

In hard science when an experiment repeatedly fails and finally blows up the lab with it, the very assumptions which form the basis of the experiment are reassessed and often abandoned.  The…

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka on 12/28/2009
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

The 2010 Elections: Finishing the War on Terror & Beginning the Battle for Democracy

The 26th of November 2009 went by without Vellupillai Prabhakaran making his annual Mahaveera Speech. We can effectively say that he and the LTTE died on the beaches of the Nandikandal Lagoon…

Kanishka Ratnapriya Kanishka Ratnapriya on 12/28/200912/24/2009
Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Religion and faith

Christmas 2008 to Christmas 2009 in Sri Lanka

Last Christmas, together with few friends, we prayed desperately, hoping a bloodbath would be avoided This Christmas, we prayed and lit candles for the thousands killed and missing during the war, the…

Veritas Veritas on 12/27/200912/27/2009
Ampara, Disaster Management, IDPs and Refugees

A photo story: Five years on, forgotten victims of the tsunami

Maya Angelou, 4 April 1928 Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai in Saainthamaruthu Today is the 5th anniversary of a tsunami that devastated our country.Five years on, but how many of us still care for the…

Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai on 12/26/200912/26/2009
Colombo, Disaster Management, Media and Communications

Better Governance: The Biggest Lesson of 2004 Tsunami

On 26 December 2009, we mark the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, one of the biggest and deadliest disasters in history. It left a trail of destruction across South and…

Nalaka Gunawardene Nalaka Gunawardene on 12/26/200912/25/2009
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

A response to Dayan Jayatilleka’s “Mindless emotionalism and absence of thinking in Tamil politics”

I have been following Mr. Jayatilleka’s articles both on . While I do agree with some of his ideas such as a multi-ethnic Sri Lanka where citizenship is not defined by ethnicity,…

Kannan Selvaratnam Kannan Selvaratnam on 12/24/200912/24/2009
Colombo, Elections, Politics and Governance

Chavez, the Cynics and the “Big Lie” of the Presidential Campaign

[Editors note: The author and the commentator Doomed to Repeat had a length exchange of ideas on the author’s previous pos This article refers to the specific comment by Doomed to repeat…

Vasantha Raja Vasantha Raja on 12/24/200903/07/2011
Colombo, Elections, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Mindless emotionalism and absence of thinking in Tamil politics

With “Sinhala hegemony” in its most dramatic form, the advancing Sri Lankan armed forces, closing in, Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism could not convince the Tamil Nadu voter of its cause and case,…

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka on 12/22/200912/21/2009
Colombo, Media and Communications

Groundviews wins prestigious Manthan South Asia Award

: We are honoured and extremely pleased to win a prestigious Manthan Award South Asia under the e-news category. The award was presented to us at a ceremony held in New Delhi…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/20/200912/21/2009

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