Given below are translations of reports on the hearings of the Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) held in Killnochchi and Mullaitivu that appeared in Tamil newspapers. Due to the deafening silence and…
Isn’t it horribly reactionary of me to be more partial to the State than civil society? Is it not a hallmark of liberalism, progressivism, radicalism, modernity and all things civil and good…
I support power sharing. Therefore, my attention is drawn to this proposal, irrespective of  the unacceptability or denial by any government authority of this purported proposal. In the last few weeks, the…
Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy is a Former Director, Economic Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Indrajit was also a staff officer at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. As Wikipedia notes, From 1981…
Exclusive video: Parliamentary debate and objections to 18th Amendment, “Sound is no substitute for argument”: Exclusive video of TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran’s speech in parliament against 18th Amendment and Final text of…
-Â Chitrasena I recently asked the illustrious Bijayini Satpathy, Director of the Odissi Gurukul at Nrityagram how she negotiated the contest between tradition and modernity in her interpretation of Odissi dance – the…
This story could be penned from many entry points. That would not make it any different, I guess. It would thus be good, or not bad, to start from the presidential elections…
Many believe that women in Sri Lanka are in a better place compared to its counterparts in South Asia. This is true up to a certain extent where women enjoy a high…
Bijayini Satpathy is Director of the Odissi Gurukul at Nrityagram. This was an interview produced for and broadcast on TV in Sri Lanka, complementing the ½ hour interview I recorded and conducted…
In what may be explained as an utterly fatuous action in a country that apparently has no that obtained a statement from Lakshman Hulugalle, the Director General of the Media Centre for…
The opposition leader and party leader of the UNP, Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Â appears to be play acting before the public, playing the two key roles of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. An…
“In other words it now becomes evident that (to quote Marx) people do not treat somebody as a king because he is a king in himself; he is a king people treat…
“Then they came for me” an oft quoted poem by German pastor Niemoller, in stressing the need for timely political action in difficult political contexts does have sense today, in its abstract…
Though the text of TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran’s speech was published earlier on the Internet, was sent today the final version of the text, approved by the MP, which incorporates into the…
This video complements Exclusive video: Parliamentary debate and objections to 18th Amendment published on . The reasoned, well-argued full text of the speech made by TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran against the 18th amendment…
