The Nationalist Epidemic
Nationalism, a decisive force of the modern and international politics is one of the most ambiguous terms existing due to lack of and difficulty in forming a proper definition. This difficulty is…
Year: 2009
G- 20 and the World Economic Crisis
All appear bleak in the global economy as Group of 20 leaders gathered in London on Thursday, April 1, 2009. The financial crisis that began in last September has morphed into a…
National flags and the symbolism of accomodating minorities
This is a reaction to Saman’s comment on the article by Professor Michael Roberts. Saman says that Sri Lanka flag has accommodated minorities, and asks: “looking at other world flags, interesting to…
Where We Are and Where To?
“War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the…
The needs of the hour
has raised a critical issue: “what is the most important issue facing the peoples of Sri Lanka in a ‘post-LTTE’ context and how can the State address it?” – an issue that…
The Lethal, the Legal, the Legitimate: Frames of our future?
An IANS report from Puducherry, March 25 read as follows: If only the offspring of the Sri Lankan political leaders and prominent personalities, Sinhala and Tamil, who were assassinated or targeted (and…
My vision for Our country
We have been conditioned by war for three decades, to accept violence as a means of resolving conflict. As heinous as the events that took place in July 1983 are, they do…
Discovered: A sunken island, an Indian Ocean Atlantis?
Banyan News World Exclusive! : Marine archaeologists have just discovered evidence of a large submerged landmass southeast of Sri Lanka. They believe it could be a legendary lost island closely linked to…
Your opinion on a war ‘over in 3 weeks’ and a ‘post-LTTE’ Sri Lanka?
A senior government minister claimed today that the war would be over in 3 weeks. Whether we believe him or not, commentators like Ahilan Kadirgamar (writing in , February 2009) have called…
Groundviews on Twitter and Facebook
was the first media website in Sri Lanka to have its own Twitter feed and Facebook page. Both Twitter and Facebook make critical content on the site more easily accessible in social…
Is the President hiding Lasantha Wickremetunge’s killers?
We reproduce in full a letter from Sonali Samarasinghe Wickremetunge to the IGP asking him to record ‘very important details’ known to the Sri Lankan President and at least one other senior…
Bridging comedy and conscience
Violence does not make me laugh. Yet humour has not only survived nearly two and a half decades of exposure to violence, brutality, intolerance, discrimination, corruption and abuses of power, it has…
President Rajapakse donates monthly salary and ‘malu banis’ to farmers attacked by LTTE
: – Elite black tiger commando units of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) carried out an attack last night on farmers who may or may not have produced the vegetables…
Ending the War, Envisioning the Peace
The eyes of the world are upon us. This means two things: Sri Lanka must not blink on the fundamentals, whatever the pressures brought to bear, while at one at the same…
Looking at the grid of SL political opinion as a continuum
I have read appearing in FEDERALiDEA on March 10, 2009. Saliya opines, “It it is not convincingly justified why the pro-devolution cause cannot be productively served from anti-military standpoint. In fact it…
