The Enduring Relevance of Puthiyathor Ulagam
I When Govinthan penned (A New World) in 1985, the intelligence wing of a Tamil militant group was hunting for him across Tamil Nadu. Govinthan (real name: Soosaipillai Nobert) joined the People’s…
Year: 2015
Court acquits Tamil mother after 15 years of detention under PTA
Image courtesy Last week, Tamil children in the North of Sri Lanka reportedly took to the streets to demand the release of their parents detained for years[1] under anti-terror laws[2]. This was…
President Sirisena’s broken promises: Start with ensuring justice to Wasim Thajudeen
Photo courtesy Bloomberg Wasim Thajudeen’s death and lackluster investigations took center stage during the run up to the August 2015 general elections. His body was exhumed, and after further examination was reburied…
Sri Lanka’s Domestic Probe & India, the US and China
The fourth US sponsored Resolution to the UNHRC Sessions in Geneva concedes the SL government could conduct its own investigations into “alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes”…
University Academics Appeal to the Authorities Regarding the UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Sri Lanka
Photo via TO: H.E PRESIDENT MAITHRIPALA SIRISENA HON. RANIL WICKRAMASINGHE, PRIME MINISTER HON. MANGALA SAMARAWEERA, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HON R. SAMPANTHAN, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION PRINCE ZEID BIN RA’AD, UN…
Why do ‘Hybrids’ oppose the Hybrid Court?
Photo courtesy SBS Sri Lankans as individuals and as members of diverse ethnic groups are cultural, economic, and political hybrids. They are receptive to hybridity in anything and everything they do, without…
#Cokepollutes: Signatories to petition and archive of tweets against Coca Cola
Coca-Cola has paid Rs 130 Million to Water board as voluntary compensation for Kelani River pollution issue reports Lankadeepa newspaper — Azzam Ameen (@AzzamAmeen) September 25, 2015 It appears that due to…
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party: The Moment of Truth
Image courtesy “I ask my countrymen, Honorable members of this House, to discard that mutual suspicion and mutual tearing of each other to pieces and to join each other in that constructive…
Is the Government afraid of “Sinhala” racists or is it racist too?
President Sirisena and PM Wickremesinghe together, flanked by Foreign, Media and Justice Ministers told media bosses and editors on18 Sept., the OISL (OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka) Report is a hard earned…
Designing the future: Plotting change, planning reform
PANEL DISCUSSION: ‘Designing the future: Plotting change, planning reform’, 5.30-7.00pm, 22nd September JDA Perera Gallery, Horton Place, Colombo Free & open to public. Parking available inside the venue. Seating limited. If architecture…
Final guided tour of ‘Corridors of Power’
JDA Perera Gallery, Horton Place, Colombo 22 September, 4 – 5pm, at the venue Exhibition ends today Led by the input of Asanga Welikala and in collaboration with Channa Daswatta, ‘Corridors…
A tree does not, a forest make
Today September 21st has been declared the International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures , people around the world will come out, write or otherwise question the wisdom of creating tree monocultures…
Drawing power: Framing the inconvenient, imagining the impossible
PANEL DISCUSSION: ‘Drawing power: Framing the inconvenient, imagining the impossible’, 5.30-7.00pm, 21st September JDA Perera Gallery, Horton Place, Colombo Free & open to public. Parking available inside the venue. Seating limited. Framing…
FINAL GUIDED TOUR: ‘Corridors of Power’
FINAL GUIDED TOUR By curator of ‘Corridors of Power’ exhibition, Sanjana Hattotuwa 4 – 5pm, 20 September at JDA Perera Gallery, Horton Place, Colombo Free & open to public. Parking available inside…
Framing discourse: Media, Power and Democracy
PANEL DISCUSSION: ‘Framing discourse: Media, Power and Democracy’, 5.30-7.00pm, 20th September JDA Perera Gallery, Horton Place, Colombo Free & open to public. Parking available inside the venue. Seating limited. The architecture of…