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Author: Dayapala Thiranagama

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Politics and Governance, Post-War

The Subversion Of Our Democratic Political Spaces & What It Means For Sri Lanka’s Future

Introduction Since Independence in 1948, Sri Lanka has witnessed three unsuccessful armed struggles. Two of these  (1971 and 1987-89) have been confined mainly to the Sinhalese South. The last one in the…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 06/04/201806/05/2018
Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The April 5: The Day that shook the South and its legacy

Photo via The Killing of Rohana Wijeweera, BBC The impulsion towards nationalist sentiment in politics, has in our view, exceedingly profound roots in the life style of the modern man, which makes…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 04/04/2016
Colombo, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, War Crimes

Rajapaksa’s Retreat: Temporary Truce or Political Imposture?

Photography courtesy   The active politician is a creator, an initiator: but he is neither creates from nothing nor does he move in the turbid void of his own desires and dreams….

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 03/01/201603/01/2016
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

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…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 01/08/201601/08/2016
Colombo, Politics and Governance

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…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 09/25/201509/26/2015
Colombo, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Polls

Parliamentary Elections and the Political Emancipation of Sri Lanka

As, in private life, the distinction is made between what a man thinks of himself and says, and that which he really is and does, so, all the more, must the phrases…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 08/08/201508/22/2015
Colombo, Language, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

Memories of Prageeth Ekneligoda

Photo courtesy Vikalpa Prageeth Ekneligoda, one of the best political cartoonists this country has ever produced was known for his great talent and political vision. He is now remembered for his disappearance…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 01/27/2015
Colombo, Gender, Identity, Politics and Governance

The Legacy of A New Woman in Our Generation: Sunila Abeysekara (1952-2013)

Photo courtesy ‘Her discourse, even when ‘theoretical’ or political, is never simple or linear or ‘objectivized’, universalized; she involves her story in history’. – Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement, The Newly Born Woman, 1986….

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 09/09/201409/09/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Re-visiting the Rajapaksa Hegemonic Project

Photo by Pankaj Nangia/Bloomberg News, via The Japan Times The UPFA regime has accomplished an unprecedented hegemonic political power, consummated by landslide   electoral victories: Presidential election, January   2010, Parliamentary Elections March 2010 and…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 05/09/201405/13/2014
Features, Galle, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

AFTER A LONG JOURNEY HOME: SOLITUDE IN JAFFNA AND THE SILENCE OF A CITY

[Editors note: Dr. Rajini Thiranagama (née Rajasingham), was a Tamil human rights activist and feminist murdered in 1989 by the LTTE. She was one of the founding members of the University Teachers for Human…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 09/13/201209/13/2012
Colombo, Diaspora, Features, Identity, International, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

Ending the Exile and Back to Roots: Fears, Challenges and Hopes

[Editors note: The author was married to Dr. Rajini Thiranagama (née Rajasingham), a Tamil human rights activist and feminist murdered in 1989 by the LTTE. She was one of the founding members of…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 01/02/201201/02/2012
Colombo, Education, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Youth

JVP and the emerging crisis in Sri Lankan universities

[Editors note: See map of campus and university student related violence over 2010 alone here.] The university has been the most dependable and organic reservoir of full time political as well as…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 11/14/201011/14/2010
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Political Character of the UPFA Regime: Is Democracy Safe?

******** Introduction The passing of the 18th Amendment in parliament has been greeted with alarm as a dangerous lurch towards increasing authoritarianism by the state. However the 18th Amendment received support from…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 10/08/201010/08/2010
Colombo, Politics and Governance

The UNP’s Leadership Crisis: An Individual Conflict with Catastrophic Prospects or Redefinition of Current Political Tasks

Image courtesy Transcurrents Introduction The current crisis in the UNP has thrown its grassroots supporters into a sense of hopelessness and disappointment about the future of the party. No political party can…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 08/17/2010
Colombo, Diplomacy, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Eelam War and the Long Arm of the Indian Rearguard Across the Palk Straits

Indo- Sri Lanka relations made a dramatic and unprecedented change with the beginning of the Eelam war. This change   contributed to bringing about   far reaching military and political consequences within Sri Lanka…

Dayapala Thiranagama Dayapala Thiranagama on 07/01/201007/01/2010

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