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Colombo, Features, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Language, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Satire, War Crimes

Top 20 posts on Sri Lanka over 2010

Featuring satire, poetry, photography and video to critical commentary and analysis, covered major political events and processes in Sri Lanka over 2010. The site’s comprehensive coverage of the first commemoration of the end…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/31/201001/01/2011
Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Vavuniya

At Your Service

Islanders always like to baila, party, party, nibble the ear whispering, pump themselves with arrack and go courting on the Green, but in these holidays at year’s end dedicated to forgetting the…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 12/27/2010
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Democratic Debates in 2011

I am not aware of another county in the UN’s 200 odd membership that debates on its national anthem some 62 years after independence from colonial rule. Since we all agree that…

Suren Raghavan Suren Raghavan on 12/27/201012/25/2010
Colombo, End of war special edition, Identity, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

A Book That Defies All Definitions: A review of the End of War in Sri Lanka

From 19 – 27 May 2010, ran a special edition on the end of war in Sri Lanka. Over this week alone, the site received over forty-thousand readers and exclusively featured over…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/26/201012/26/2010
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Different forms of terrorism

LTTE terrorism ended with the death of its leader Prabakaran in May 2009. But other forms of terrorism seem to have erupted in the country to keep the government busy waging many…

Leela Isaac Leela Isaac on 12/25/2010
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Features, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Interview with Asoka Handagama

Asoka Handagama is one of Sri Lanka’s best known and most controversial filmmakers. His films divide audiences and the critics – you either love them and celebrate his genius, or you hate…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/24/201012/24/2010
Colombo, Foreign Relations, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, War Crimes

An Era of Sri Lanka’s President: From Mullivaikal to Oxford Union

[Authors note: Mullivaikal is where the last phase of the war between Sri Lankan Armed Forces (SLAF) and Liberation Tiger of TamilEelam (LTTE) took place.  According to the Government of Sri Lanka,…

Nirmanusan Balasundaram Nirmanusan Balasundaram on 12/24/2010
Colombo, Features, Identity, Language, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

Governance, Rights and Reconciliation: The National Anthem and Other Disturbing News from Sri Lanka

Original photo from The headline story of the was to be maintained. At a time when the principal challenge facing the country is to move beyond a post –war situation to a…

on 12/22/201012/22/2010
Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Interview with Kanak Mani Dixit

Kanak Mani Dixit is editor of Himal Southasian regional magazine and publisher of the Nepali-language Himal Khabarpatrika newsmagazine. He was actively involved in resisting King Gyanendra’s takeover and was detained many times…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/22/2010
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Launch of Groundviews 2.0: New features, enhanced readability, comprehensive search

Regular readers of would have noticed the site upgrade that went live last week. The new website sports a complete overhaul of underlying site technologies and presentation. Content is now presented in…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/21/2010
Human Rights, International, International Relations, Media and Communications, Science and Technology

Julian Assange’s turn for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011

Photo courtesy Wired A week or so ago, a veteran editor cum journalist in a conversation on conflict and peace said, his choice for the next peace prize is Julian Assange. Agreed….

Kusal Perera Kusal Perera on 12/21/201012/21/2010
Colombo, Features, Human Rights, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya, War Crimes

A tragi-comedy? The UN Advisory Panel and war crimes in Sri Lanka

Photo courtesy Inner City Press There is nothing to scratch heads for, to find the reason why Moon at the UN and Mahinda in Colombo agreed to have the UN Secretary General’s…

Kusal Perera Kusal Perera on 12/19/2010
Colombo, Media and Communications, Science and Technology

Living in the Global Glass House: An Open Letter to Sir Arthur C Clarke

Colombo, Sri Lanka: 16 December 2010 Dear Sir Arthur, I write this on your 93rd birth anniversary. Just over a thousand days have passed since you departed. Like all true rationalists, you…

Nalaka Gunawardene Nalaka Gunawardene on 12/19/201012/22/2010
Colombo, Identity, Language, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

O country, Thy National Anthem…

It was reported lately that an interesting issue came up at a recent cabinet meeting, namely, the National Anthem of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. It was also reported that…

Chaminda Weerawardhana Chaminda Weerawardhana on 12/17/201012/16/2010
Identity, Jaffna, Language, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

Is the Tamil version of our national anthem a joke?

Recent media coverage in Sri Lanka has focussed on the confusion over the ban of the Tamil version of Sri Lanka’s national anthem. In media reports that need to be read in…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/16/201012/16/2010

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