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Author: Sanjana Hattotuwa

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Colombo, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation, Religion and faith

Aluthgama riots and deaths: Vital updates

Photo courtesy BBC Update #3: 7.05am, 176 June 2014 A video with English subtitles of the BBS speech that incited violence in Aluthgama is now on YouTube. Also uploaded to the web…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 06/16/201405/19/2021
Colombo, Media and Communications

Partnership to protect free expression online: Project Galileo

I am both proud and pleased to welcome the launch of Project Galileo by CloudFlare, for which the Centre for Policy Alternatives – the institutional anchor of this site – is a…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 06/12/201406/12/2014
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Happy Sri Lanka

Happy, by Pharrell Williams bills itself as the world’s first 24 hour music video. The song is extremely catchy and aired at least once a day, every day at the time of…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 06/10/201406/10/2014
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict

Response to article in Colombo Telegraph

An article published in the on its site – the comments section is a cesspool of bile by those hiding behind veils of anonymity – I would like to flag just two…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 06/03/201406/03/2014
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

In conversation with Gihan de Chickera: Cartoons, politics and theatre

Gihan de Chickera, who I’ve known since our halcyon days at S. Thomas’, is an actor, with experience in both stage and film productions, though perhaps even more loved and followed for…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 05/27/201405/27/2014
Colombo, End of war | 5 years on, Features, Human Rights, Human Security, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance

Launch of Special Edition: The end of war in Sri Lanka, five years on

In the corner of my room, there’s a large air-tight plastic bag I open once a year, and occasionally glance at with mixed emotions. It contains, carefully folded, all the newspapers I could…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 04/30/201405/09/2014
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Music, Peace and Conflict

In conversation with Lakshman Joseph de Saram

Lakshman Joseph de Saram is an internationally acclaimed Film Composer, classical musician & Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Colombo. We begin our conversation by looking at Lakshman’s childhood –…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 03/02/2014
Colombo, Media and Communications

Remembering Mel Gunasekera

Mel would have been deeply fascinated by the circumstances of her murder. She would have, even more than Nalaka Gunawardene, taken pains to explore why an ordinary man, a father, husband and…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 02/04/201402/10/2014
Colombo, Media and Communications

2013 Round-Up

published 142 articles over 2013. Our Facebook fan page grew by over 4,000. Our Twitter feed, the most probing, interactive and engaging of any media related Twitter account in Sri Lanka, grew…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 12/23/2013
Arts and Theatre, Colombo

Interview with Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke, Director of ‘Paraya’

Directed by Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke and produced by Mind Adventures, will begin its run on 18th of this month to the 21st. For any other theatrical production, that description would suffice, along with…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 09/14/201309/16/2013
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict

Sunila Abeysekera: 1952 – 2013

Photo courtesy BBC World Service Sunila Abeysekera passed away earlier today after a long battle with cancer. Sunila has a profile on Wikipedia but reading it would deeply frustrate anyone who knew…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 09/09/2013
30 Years Ago, Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Remember the Riots

Remembering, to never again repeat: Launch of 30 Years Ago site

Photo by Seshanka Samarajiwa/The Picture Press The culmination of months of dedicated research, travel, challenging production work and curation, I am very pleased to launch . The project is an attempt to…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 08/19/201308/19/2013
Arts and Theatre, Colombo

Framed music: ‘The Show Must Go On’ by Sachini Perera

Photo courtesy Sachini Perera Photography How ‘The Show Must Go On’ came about described on the exhibition’s Facebook event page. Sachini Perera, who I first came to know of through her work…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 06/08/201306/08/2013
Colombo, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Sri Lanka: After the world’s media has moved on

As the Editor of , I was invited by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN/IFRA) to give a presentation on Sri Lanka at the 20th World Editors Forum (WEF) and…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 06/06/201306/06/2013
Colombo, Features, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Helping the Police arrest brutish “monks” in Sri Lanka

Apparently the infamous Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) has condemned the attack on Fashion Bug warehouse a few days ago and asked the Police to arrest those involved in it, even if they…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 03/31/201301/07/2021

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