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Author: Aaranya Rajasingam

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Colombo, Gender, Groundviews at 10, Human Rights, Identity, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

A decade: In Passing

Photograph courtesy  My mother always used to ask me why I didn’t write more often and I always had a stock reply “Everything I write is so negative, even I can’t stand…

Aaranya Rajasingam Aaranya Rajasingam on 02/04/2017
Colombo, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith, Youth

A rejoinder to “Disarming the juggernaut of religious intolerance in Sri Lanka”

I recently read this article “Disarming the juggernaut of religious intolerance in Sri Lanka” on by Dynalogue – who consider themselves a non partisan, apolitical youth discussion group who have organised themselves…

Aaranya Rajasingam Aaranya Rajasingam on 09/13/2013
Culture, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Madras Cafe: A timely interrogation

“There are events, facts from history” and according to the director Shoojit Sircar his film Madras Cafe (2013) is “fiction inspired from fact”.[1] And while the director claims that his film is…

Aaranya Rajasingam Aaranya Rajasingam on 09/10/2013
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

“Who watches the watchmen?” Reforming Sri Lanka’s Detention Centres

Photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images, via Asia Society Rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-militants or “terrorists” as they are more often termed, following the blanket approach that is being taken post 9/11, is…

Aaranya Rajasingam Aaranya Rajasingam on 08/04/201308/16/2013

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