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Author: Tisaranee Gunasekara

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Colombo, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Trapped, Still

May 2024 marked the 15th anniversary of the ending of the long Eelam War. Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardana presided over the annual “war heroes” commemoration. Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was among the…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 05/25/202505/25/2025
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Stickergate: A Bell that Tolls for All

Zoë Rogers is 21, English, a dog-lover. In August 2024, she, together with five others, crashed a modified prison van into Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturing facility in Bristol. The six…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 04/20/202504/20/2025
Colombo, Politics and Governance

The Anatomy of a Debasement

Let’s begin with a story. Once upon a time, the prime minister of an island nation was plagued by an outbreak of labour unrest. He summoned the police chief and ordered him…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 03/23/2025
Colombo, Politics and Governance

The Re-gathering

“ In 2009, Mahinda Rajapaksa conquered Sri Lanka. In 2010, he set out to conquer the world with an address to the Oxford Union. Although the visit was a private one, a…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 02/16/2025
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

Waiting for Frodo

J.R.R. Tolkien’s One Ring was an instrument of power and suppression, forged to subjugate the free people of Middle Earth. Yet, the first word-picture of the Ring begins by emphasising its seeming…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 01/26/2025
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, War Crimes

Open Sesame for War Criminals?

In the second decade of the 21st Century, genocide is being televised. , the channel promises Israeli audiences “exclusive content from Gaza” – gory videos of death and destruction visited on Palestinians…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 12/22/202412/22/2024
Colombo, Elections, Politics and Governance

A Magic Wand

The Grimm version is known wider but the Turkish one cuts deeper. In both tales, the boy goes in search of fear and finds a crown. In the Grimm version, fear comes…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 11/17/202411/17/2024
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Political philosophy, Politics and Governance

Waiting for a Democratic Opposition

The point had been made often enough. Without a Gotabaya Rajapaksa presidency, there wouldn’t have been an Anura Kumara Dissanayake presidency. For the NPP/JVP to go from 3 percent to 42 percent…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 10/20/202410/20/2024
Colombo, Elections, Politics and Governance

Cats That Won’t be Belled

“Wrath” is the opening word of . Wrath is a key driver of the upcoming presidential election. People are angry at political leaders for bankrupting the country. Hopefully, the anger is accompanied…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 09/15/202409/15/2024
Colombo, Elections, Politics and Governance

Kings in Waiting

The most iconic moment at Nelson Mandela’s star studded memorial service was a handshake. As US President Barack Obama ran up to the podium under a light drizzle, a CNN reporter was…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 08/18/202408/18/2024
Colombo, Elections, Politics and Governance

Political Storms, Imagined and Real

Two years ago, on July 20, 2022, the Sri Lankan parliament voted to elect a successor president to Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The SLPP put its full weight behind Ranil Wickremesinghe; even a parliamentarian…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 07/21/2024
Colombo, Human Rights, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The War Against Words

Had writer V.V. Ganeshananthan lived in Jaffna instead of New York, she would have been summoned by Sri Lanka’s Counter Terrorism Investigative Division (CTID) and grilled for a couple of hours over…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 06/23/202406/23/2024
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, War Crimes

Shades of an Undead Past

In Sri Lanka of 2024, kanji is a four letter word. During the long Eelam war, all sides committed horrendous atrocities. Sri Lankan forces, the LTTE and anti-Tiger Tamil groups all were…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 05/19/2024
Colombo, Economy, Politics and Governance

From Absurdities to Atrocities, Again?

Voltaire (Letter to Fredrick the Great – 28.11.1770) Sri Lanka’s road to ruin was marked by miracles. The story, born in mystery, spread across the land at the speed of light. Luminous…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 04/28/202404/28/2024
Colombo, Human Rights, International, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Gaza in End Times

Jonathan Glazer, director of The Zone of Interest (Oscar acceptance speech) The Pali Canon has the original tale but it’s the version in the commentaries we know. In both stories, she is…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 03/24/2024

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