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Author: Tisaranee Gunasekara

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#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Elections, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance

Still on the Rotten Bridge

“Homo Sapiens is prone to orgies of stupidity, brutality, and destruction.” Martin Wolf (The crisis of democratic capitalism) So back in the Chalk Circle but this time play ends in Act 2.…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 03/26/202303/28/2023
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Taxing Times

Sri Lanka’s poorest of the poor, their lives devastated by economic collapse, may face a killer blow soon: a crippling of the public health system. That GMOA is planning to paralyse the…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 02/26/202302/26/2023
75 Years of Independence, Colombo, Culture, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

The Country We Lost to Sinhala-Buddhism

During Black July, marauding mobs, when uncertain about the ethnic identity of a potential victim, would order him/her to recite the five precepts in Pali or the chant , a composite which…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 02/07/202302/07/2023
Media and Communications, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith, Writers Under Siege

The Sacred and the Profane

“A tangle within, a tangle without…” Jata Sutta – Samyutta Nikaya In July 2020, Indika Rathnayake, a non-theistic online activist, was summoned to the Organised Crimes Prevention Police Division and questioned for three…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 01/22/202301/26/2023
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

2023: Saffron, Kurahan, Red or Green?

Before Gotabaya Rajapaksa, there was S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. Before organic only, there was Sinhala only. And the related transformation of Vidyodaya and Vidyalankara from monastic colleges to secular universities. Like Sinhala only, this…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 12/18/202212/18/2022
Corruption, Economy, Politics and Governance

Mahindagamanaya 3

“We have not abandoned our people, neither will we do so.” Mahinda Rajapaksa (Budget 2023, second reading debate) The seminal event of the 2023 Budget cycle was not Budget 2023. The Budget…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 11/27/202211/27/2022
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Politics Beyond 22

Twenty two is not perfect. Far from it, perhaps light years far. Yet, in a season of defeats and setbacks, it is a win for Sri Lankan democracy, and for those Sri…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 10/23/202210/23/2022
Colombo, Economy, Human Rights, Politics and Governance, Poverty

The Problem of the People

Sri Lanka, unravelled and unravelling, is mesmerised by a new wonder: the Lotus Tower. When that monumental symbol of Rajapaksa folly was opened to the public last week, people thronged to pay…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 09/25/202202/20/2023
Colombo, Elections, Politics and Governance

Prelude to Elections

Most politicians have a questionable relationship with reality. The Rajapaksas operate in a reality that is all their own. Asked why brother Gotabaya fled the country, Mahinda Rajapaksa replied, “Who accuses him…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 08/21/202208/21/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Politics and Governance

A Janus Moment

“A wandering fire at a terrible height – can it be a star shining like that? Osip Mandelstam (Poem 101) A walking path bordered by the sea and a bit of lawn…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 07/24/202207/24/2022
#GoHomeGota, Colombo, Education, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Poverty

Life after this Death?

“All that is solid melts into the air…” Marx and Engels (The Communist Manifesto) The socio-economic edifice that is Sri Lanka’s informal sector is collapsing.  According to the 2020 Labour Force Survey,…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 06/19/2022
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Comrade Q – An Incomplete Sketch

The caption was pure Qadri: piece of June 2020 might have been the first time it strayed into his public writing. But then, as he points out, appointing a taskforce to create…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 05/29/2022
#GotaGoHome, Constitutional Reform, Corruption, Economy, Politics and Governance

Sri Lanka in the Chalk Circle

“Without gas, without kerosene oil, we can’t do anything. Last option what? Without food we are going to die. That will happen hundred percent.” Mohammad Shazly a part-time chauffer, Colombo (Reuters –…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 05/22/202205/24/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The End?

“We must love one another or die,” wrote Auden in September 1, 1939 as the world slid into calamity. Gotagogama and the nationwide anti-Rajapaksa struggle it pioneered and symbolized seemed to be…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 05/10/202205/30/2022
#GotaGoHome, Colombo, Corruption, Economy, Politics and Governance

Dawn at Galle Face: Which Tomorrow?

“Beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see?” Do you hear the people sing (Les Misérables) “I’m 89 years old,” the grandmotherly protestor holding a hand-drawn placard says. “For…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 04/24/202205/30/2022

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