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Author: Sanjana Hattotuwa

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Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

#AskMR: Twitter Q&A, January 2017

Photo by AP, via The first #AskMR Twitter Q&A, conducted when former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was in New York attending the UN sessions in September 2013, was an unmitigated disaster. A complete…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 01/11/201701/11/2017
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation

How not to release an official report on reconciliation

Image courtesy Consultation Task Force, featuring submission by to it. Details here. After months of waiting, the final report of the Consultation Task Force, set up by the Prime Minister in January…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 01/04/201701/04/2017
Colombo, Features, Groundviews at 10

Editorial: Groundviews at 10

I often say I have two children. My son, born in December 2006. And , launched in November of the same year. The first post on the site went up on the…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 12/02/201612/02/2016
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Culture, Development, Language, Media and Communications

Some thoughts on ‘Close to the Bone’

‘Close to the Bone’, billed as a theatrical collaboration between Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke and Isuru Kumarasinghe, was part of Colomboscope 2016 and held at the Presidential Suite, Cinnamon Lakeside. Almost exactly three years…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 09/04/201609/04/2016
Colombo, Politics and Governance

Shanthi Sachithanandan: In Memoriam

It was with deep sadness that I learnt Shanthi Sachithanandan had passed away yesterday. In emails and face to face conversations spanning many years, I remember an individual who was, at her core, deeply…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 08/28/2015
Colombo, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

Hacking the hackers: Surveillance in Sri Lanka revealed

It was sometime in April 2013, that I wrote my last blog post. Titled ‘And Then They Came For Us’, or something along those morbid lines, the piece was a commentary of…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 07/15/201507/20/2021
Colombo, Development, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Power mapping

Image by I was asked to contribute an article to an up-coming issue of , the journal of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. The issue will be anchored to the idea of…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 05/27/201505/28/2015
Colombo, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Hope

I drove past Temple Trees this morning at sunrise, a few minutes after the first SMS from a major news service proclaimed Mahinda Rajapaksa would step down as President. I couldn’t believe…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 01/09/201501/09/2015
Colombo, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

Insights into Mahinda Rajapaksa’s re-election campaign on social media

On the same day the Centre for Policy Alternatives, through an online survey, flagged the importance of social media in the up-coming Presidential Election to reach young voters, a series of retweets…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 12/18/201405/23/2020
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

2014: Year in Review

published over 300 articles in 2014. Since its launch in 2006, the most amount of traffic to the website was generated over May this year, around the compelling content featured in the End…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 12/13/201405/19/2021
Colombo, Features, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Liking violence: A study of hate speech on Facebook in Sri Lanka

Photo courtesy Sri Lanka Brief The Centre for Policy Alternatives, the institutional anchor of , released today a report co-authored by Shilpa Samaratunge and I on hate speech online, looking at Facebook…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 09/24/201409/12/2017
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

When press releases become propaganda

How the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index 2014 was reported in Sri Lankan media reads as a cautionary tale when dealing with press releases. The report was brought to my…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 08/11/201408/11/2014
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Development, Politics and Governance

Invisible architectures: Thoughts on Walking Path

Franz Kafka, ‘Beyond the Law’ Designed and directed by Jayampathi Guruge and scripted by Ruwanthie de Chickera, ‘Walking Path’, performed recently at the Lionel Wendt offered an interesting critique of Colombo’s post-war…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 07/30/201407/30/2014
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Religion and faith

Sri Lanka redefines “curfew” in Beruwela

Lest we forget, the Police imposed a curfew in Beruwela and Aluthgama on 15th June in an effort to stop the violence against Muslims in the area. The curfew in Aluthgama was…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 06/29/201405/19/2021
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Religion and faith

Aluthgama violence: Where was Sri Lanka’s President?

Photo by Dinouk Colombage, via The horrible killings and destruction in Aluthgama on Sunday was blacked out by almost all mainstream media in Sri Lanka at the height of the violence and the morning after.…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 06/18/201405/19/2021

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