How (not) to vote: A letter to the dejected progressive
AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena via Yahoo News On the morning of 9 January 2015, I shed a few quiet tears. Mahinda Rajapaksa, who sought an unprecedented third term for the highest office, had…
Author: Elijah Hoole
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…
Erasing Identities: Tracing Sri Lanka’s Post-war Journey through the Changing Realities of Trincomalee
Introduction When I went to Trincomalee last November with a few university friends I noticed a distinct unfriendliness in the air. While growing up, I often visited Trincomalee, because my cousins lived…
The State of the Free Education System in Sri Lanka: Confessions of a Disgruntled Student
Image courtesy I am one of the 243,876 lucky students who sat for the Advanced Level Examinations in 2011. It has been almost one-and-a-half-years since then, and I received my university registration…
Reconciliation in Sri Lanka: What? Why? How?
Photo courtesy: Steve Chao /Al Jazeera via JDS With our Government busy defending itself from war crime allegations, protecting the sovereignty of the country and advising the common man to say ‘no’…
Synthesis of Personal Reflections: Reconciliation, Sri Lanka Unites and Me
Ever since reading the article by E Pluribus Unum on “A Critique of Sri Lanka Unites: Freedom has not made itself known”, I have felt compelled to respond to it, but was…