Culture happens. No matter what.
Image via NKAR Currently there is an initiative to draft a National Cultural Policy for Sri Lanka – which will look at bringing arts, culture and creative thinking into the heart of…
Year: 2016
What’s in store for 25.1% in 2nd of “Yahapalanaya”?
Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images via Time.com President is reported to have told parliament today in his special address on the Resolution to elect a Constitutional Council, no one should be afraid…
One Year Of Yahapaalanaya: The Highs And Lows
Featured image courtesy Youtube On January 8, 2015, thousands flocked to Independence Square to watch Maithripala Sirisena take his Presidential vows. With his promise to promote or ‘good governance’ the atmosphere was…
Reflections on the “Maithri Palanaya” after one year
AP Photo/Sujeewa Kumar, via The Guardian Saturday 9th January 2016, will mark the completion of one year of the Maithripala Sirisena presidency and it is an opportune time to reflect on the past…
One Year After the January 8th Victory: Winners And Losers
Photo via Bloomberg “That was both the opportunity and the problem. Suddenly, subjects were told they had become Citizens; an aggregate of subjects held in place by injustice and intimidation had become…
Silence in the Courts, Silence in Society and Women at Peril
Featured image courtesy The Justice Project – South Asia As I watched ““, a documentary movie by award-winning Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage aired at the University of Ottawa Human Rights Film Festival…
Addressing Climate Change: COP21 and Sri Lanka
Featured image courtesy EPA The COP on climate change in Paris saw Sri Lanka make pledges on the global stage, that we will be a responsible nation when it came to the…
Yahapalanaya at One: When will our leaders ‘walk the talk’?
Featured image courtesy vivalanka.com I shared those words one year ago on Twitter and Facebook through a simple web meme. At the time, it was very much an aspiration, as we Lankans…
