It is a hostage crisis, stupid!
Image courtesy The Sri Lankan military is dealing with probably the largest hostage crisis in world history. Sri Lanka and its present leadership will be forever remembered for how it handles this…
Author: Nishan
Barack Obama: Hope for America, but not for the world?
Photo credit: CurrentTV Barack Obama has run perhaps the best organized and most inspiring of presidential campaigns in US political history. He has risen above sleazy political tactics, challenged stereotypes, eschewed divisiveness,…
‘Baaldhiya’ or ‘Vaaldhiya’: Two Wor(l)ds Separated by a Consonant
I don’t think I had the slightest inkling of a problem between the sinhala and tamil people in Sri Lanka, until July 1983. But I should have. In the heady days of…
Media analysis and the chutzpah of the Sri Lankan government
The quality of chutzpah has been described vividly as a boy who murders his parents and pleads with the judge for clemency on the basis of being an orphan. In the BBC…
News Flash: I was not visited by a pink elephant
Yesterday, the front pages of several English papers the Daily Mirror and the Daily News amongst them carried an intriguing news flash: “British will not de-ban LTTE”, and “British government will not…
Doing Business with Myanmar
The Daily Mirror on 29 August 2007 reports a high-level meeting at Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) between state and business leaders of Sri Lanka and a state delegation representing trade interests…
A question to the government and the LTTE
What place is home for Tamil, Muslim and Sinhala Sri Lankans? Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. — Robert…