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Author: Dilrukshi Handunnetti

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Gender, International, Issues, Media and Communications

Asma: One Strong Story – Well Said

Many knew Asma Jahangir for her brilliance, and for the celebration of diversity that she always was. She was a beacon of hope as a dogged defender of human rights and a…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 08/27/2018
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Remembering Lasantha, eight years on

Photo via Way back in 2007, when I was assigned one of the biggest investigative stories I were to ever undertake, our editor Lasantha Wickrematunge sent me a text message with a…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 01/08/2017
Colombo, Culture, Elections, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Presidential polls 2015: An electoral trial on biased fortunetelling

AFP PHOTO STR/AFP/Getty Images via The Guardian I don’t know much about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reliance on astrology, despite India being a land full of astrologers­ – those with credibility…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 01/16/2015
Colombo, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Why people seek a change

Photo courtesy IPS Today, January 8, approximately 15 million Sri Lankans will seek to elect the island’s next president at a tightly-contested presidential election. The chosen day is a special one. It…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 01/08/2015
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Five years of vanquished journalism: A self critique

Image courtesy Grassrooted For nearly three decades, it remained Sri Lanka’s biggest story. Over the years, the resplendent island became known, not for its human development indicators or as a vibrant democracy,…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 07/17/201407/16/2014
30 Years Ago, Colombo, Remember the Riots

Archiving multiple drafts of history

Presentation by Dilrukshi Handunnetti delivered at panel discussion on 25th August 2013, as part of the ‘30 Years Ago‘ exhibition. Photograph courtesy The Ravaya Collection. My first memories of July 1983 remain vivid. There…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 08/27/201309/05/2013
Features, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

Putting paid to the Government’s false claims: The new IDPs in Sri Lanka

Editors note: On the day Menik Farm was officially closed, an urgent memo was circulated widely on the fate of the IDPs from Keppapilavu. The memo adds vital context to the following…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 09/29/201209/29/2012
Colombo, Features, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Post-War

Excellence in exile

Battered and bleeding, journalist Poddala Jayantha lay on his hospital bed when we visited him on June 2, 2009. He was lucky to be alive after being brutally assaulted by a group…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 11/12/201012/13/2010
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Development, End of war special edition, Human Rights, Identity, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

Beyond the war psyche in Sri Lanka

Dust is finally settling on the euphoria generated by last year’s military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).  Old concerns naturally give way to the new and a year…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 05/23/201003/08/2011
Colombo, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Post-presidential elections: The new challenges before Sri Lanka

Citizens are living through a politically decisive week with just days to elect Sri Lanka’s next Executive President. The next elected Chief Executive, unlike his predecessors, will acquire a unique place in…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 01/23/201001/23/2010
Colombo, Elections, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance, Post-War

A bitter feud and an ugly media spectacle in the lead up to Presidential elections

This presidential election is unlike any other.  There are no manifestos published yet to augment a healthy political debate and policies do not appear to concern the two main candidates. At this…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 01/01/201012/31/2009
Ampara, Batticaloa, Human Security, Mannar, Peace and Conflict

The wages of passivity

Sri Lanka’s Muslims have long kept quiet while Tamil militancy has made its own demands. Now they are becoming restive, fearing that silence may have cost them too much. By | Dilrukshi…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 03/05/200704/11/2008

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