The Growth Ideal or not so Ideal
© TechNation As Sri Lanka eases away from the emergency and security phase to a growth and development phase, there is a wonderful opportunity for us to create a balance between growth…
Year: 2010
Interview with Michael Roberts
Prof. Michael Roberts, in addition to his academic writing and research, is well-known political commentator in Sri Lanka. He is also a regular contributor to this site. In the incredibly violent days…
On Anthems and the State of the Union
I have been stirred and moved even to tears by both the Tamil and Sinhala versions of the Ceylon, now Sri Lanka,anthem. I think I owe this emotional tie to birth on…
A-Z of Sri Lankan English: G is for gode
Mahinda Rajapaksa makes no bones about his goday origins“ (Daily News 12/02/2010) The basic meaning of the Sinhala word gode (or goday) is rural, of the land, of the village, conjuring up…
Thanks, Guys
Liu Xiaobo , Winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2010, “ CHRD Vassals, serfs, dependent states, including erstwhile defenders of human rights, we appreciate and respect your well-considered decisions to absent yourselves from…
The ‘Godayata magic’ of Oxford
Occidentalism: in the thrall of the “West“ The “ magic“ of Oxford There is a storm engulfing this country “ not the incessant rains and consequent floods that have brought much suffering…
DIASPORA EXTREMISM, INDIA, CHINA & SRI LANKA
“A social group kindred and allied groups.“ “ Gramsci The Wiki leaks mega “dump“ is an international relations s analyst“s dream. It is also great fun, don“t you think? Consider this: if…
Expecting too much from your expectations of others?
I had an “aha“ moment this morning about my own patterns of habits when I was reflecting on an incident when I felt let down by someone close to me. I have…
Bell Pottinger and official communiqués of the Sri Lankan government
Statement issued by Mr Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka For security reasons the speech by His Excellency President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka at the Oxford Union, the home…
Whose reality in Sri Lanka?
No one will deny that Sri Lanka has experienced dramatic changes over the past 18 months. The military defeat of the LTTE came as a surprise to many defence and security analysts,…
Interview with Bradman Weerakoon
Deshamanya Bradman Weerakoon, who turned 80 recently, is an elder statesman in Sri Lanka and one of the oldest living civil servants in the country. During over half a century of public…
Wikileaks on Sri Lanka: A breakdown and implications
Updated 2.15pm, 30th November with added analysis of tags “The first is that, in Sri Lanka, it would never be possible for any one to play “Julian Assange” and dare face an…
Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Second-Term: A New Beginning?
When the LTTE showed, consistently and convincingly, that it did not understand the language of ‘peace’, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, correctly, turned to a language that the LTTE understood well; ‘war’. All other…
A review of the Gaza Monologues
Photo courtesy of Ruvin de Silva , 2010 Ahmad, 1993, Al Wehda Street, Gaza On certain occasions, one must excuse the ardour of overtly political theatre; it is after all a medium…
The Big Lie
Marx once said that “in all ideology”… “men and their circumstances appear upside down as in a last May, Sarvan explicitly attempts to portray the Sinhala people as similar to the Germans…