The Good, the Bad and the Uncouth
Photo by AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, via Yahoo News There is change, and for the better. The presence of the leader of the SLFP at the UNP Convention was something unimaginable even a year…
Author: Tisaranee Gunasekara
From Real Election to Realpolitik
Photograph courtesy Wall Street Journal The UPFA fought two consecutive elections in an imaginary country and lost them both. In that imaginary country the minority vote was of less value and weight;…
The Freak Show Returns
Image courtesy The UPFA’s election campaign is based on Four Ignoble Lies: Sri Lanka and all true-born Lankans are suffering; the reason for this suffering is the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa on…
Racist Tom-Toms and Electoral Statistics
Photo via Japan Times, AP Photo/Sanka Gayashan During election season, the UPFA tried to win enough Sinhala votes by inciting minority phobia – and failed. Post-defeat, what the severely-truncated UPFA continues to beat this…
A Portrait of the Electorate, on the Cusp of an Election
Photo courtesy Maatram Lankans are awaiting the island-nation’s seventh presidential election with a renewed belief in the power of their vote. According to the latest opinion survey by the Centre of Policy…
Horror in Aluthgama: Their Crime, Our Shame
Photo courtesy BBC [Editors note: This was sent by the author directly to us. As a policy Groundviews does not republish what’s already gone up somewhere else on the web. Making an…
War, Peace and the Manufacturing of Rajapaksa Myths
Photo courtesy the Lankans in general are distressingly indifferent to the plight of the country’s most majestic mammal, the elephant. But an unaccustomed wave of public outrage ensued when a plan to…