Let us make the bombers accountable to us!
As I write more than 250,000 civilians are trapped in jungle near Mullaitivu. They have little food, water and medicine. They are being injured and killed. They need help. Please speak to…
Year: 2009
Are We Back on Square One?
The proximate cause that led me to write this article was a question asked by a friend of mine who earn his daily income by selling sundry items in Kandy pavement. He…
MULLAITIVU: CLOSING TIME
The trick is to grasp the main needs of the present while being able to see into the future, with its problems and prospects, while being aware that the choices we make…
Attacks on the Media, Military Successes and Political Settlement: The Stuff on Our Plates
End of January 2009. The political situation in Sri Lanka has seen considerable developments through 2008 and especially during the month of January 2009. The main focus today is the war against…
Remote Controllers a threat to National Security
By Banyan News Reporters Colombo, 15 January 2009: The television remote controller poses a serious threat to the country’s national security, the government has determined. A new law will soon be introduced…
To Win the War and Lose the Peace: Beyond Sri Lanka’s ‘War on Terror’
It looks like one of the more winnable conflicts in an age of the global ‘war on terror’. The Sri Lankan government appears to be on the brink of announcing victory in…
Aftermath of the Victory: whither Sri Lanka?
Heartland of Eelam is fallen. LTTE is now cornered to a narrow strip of land and in near future whole bulk of 65, 610 km2 of land would be under the control…
The Anti-Conversion Bill violates the freedom of Conscience and the freedom of expression
There is a trend to convert the triumph of the Armed Forces over the LTTE in the north into a triumphal Sinhala-Buddhist ultra nationalism. Their ideology is that the country belongs only…
The Breadwinner or the Nurturing Mother
Sri Lanka boasts about the foreign exchange income earned through the labour of our women overseas. Yet, we do not place much importance to the social cost of this.  Sri Lanka will…
To The Courts, In Remorse
Drop all charges against Tissanaiyagam. his glaucoma needs treatment and his wife will be grateful, …and the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps will feel less inclined to speak at public acts of…
The future of the LTTE in Sri Lanka: Kumudini Samuel
Prominent civil society activist Kumudini Samuel shares her views on the future of the LTTE in Sri Lanka. Kumudini Samuel is the founder of the Women’s and Media Collective and a member…
The future of the LTTE in Sri Lanka: Shanthi Sachithanandan
Prominent Tamil civil society activist Shanthi Sachithanandan shares her views on the future of the LTTE in Sri Lanka. For more short videos that look at the future of the LTTE in…
From the ‘sole representative’ to the ‘sole alternative’: Justice for, and within the Tamil Community
With the position of spokesperson for, and sole representative of the Tamil community set to become vacant upon the projected defeat of the LTTE, one would hope that space would be created…
Media watch: To write or not to write the truth
I once asked the following question, not from anyone in particular of course: Why don’t pens, pencils and paper go on strike decrying journalists who will not write the truth?” I might…
Thoughts on violence against and the future of independent media in Sri Lanka by Dinidu de Alwis
Dinidu de Alwis, a well known and well read blogger and journalist in Sri Lanka shares some thoughts on the future of independent media in Sri Lanka and the significant challenges it…