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Colombo, Elections, Politics and Governance

Is There a Credible Political Alternative for Sri Lanka?

Why do Sri Lankan voters elect and re-elect corrupt and discredited politicians?  This topic has been much talked about and commented on in newspapers and social media ever since Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 11/28/202111/28/2021
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Sights of violence, sites of memory: Reframing the past

Keynote on ‘Sights of Violence, Sites of Memory: Reframing the Past’ delivered on the 13th of August, 2015 for ‘Framing the Past: Untying the Future’, 11th -17th of August 2015, Park street…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 08/14/2015
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Elections, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Citizens should decide carefully after weighing the pros and cons

The Parliamentary election is getting closer.  The submission of nominations has been completed.  Voters look on with surprise at the antics of some candidates. Some people are confused due to views expressed…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 08/04/2015
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

A Whistleblower Protection Act needs to Accompany the proposed Freedom of Information Act

Image courtesy Transparency International By S W R de A Samarasinghe & Tissa Jayatilaka The presidential election results of 8 January suggest that a significant segment of our electorate concurred with the…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 01/28/201501/28/2015
Colombo, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

First week of “Good Governance”: Three Good Speeches, One Promise Kept and One Postponed

The of President Maithripala Sirisena (MS) was launched last week with three good speeches, one of two promises largely kept and the third postponed, hopefully to be fulfilled sooner rather than later….

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 01/19/201501/20/2015
Colombo, Elections, End of war | 5 years on, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

SRI LANKA IN 2014 : REPEATING PAST MISTAKES

Image courtesy Sri Lanka Guardian Our long-drawn out internecine war in recent history came to an end in May 2009 with the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Thamil Eelam (LTTE)….

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 05/15/201405/04/2014
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Thoughts on Sri Lanka’s Future on Another Vesak Day

Photo courtesy Dawn.com/AFP The  Vesak Poya day has come and gone several times since May 2009 when the prolonged war with the LTTE ended. And we Sri Lankans are yet trapped in…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 05/27/2013
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Language, Peace and Conflict

Shakespeare – Is he “Wellington’s Lieutenant?”

Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty via Among the many twists and turns of history, few can be more contrived than that which led to the establishment of Shakespeare’s tongue as a second or link…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 05/22/2013
Colombo, International, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

Of Foreign Policy Failures, Geneva Resolutions, Double Standards and other excuses for Non-Reconciliation in Sri Lanka

Reminiscences of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy triumphs spearheaded by the late lamented Lakshman Kadirgamar are fresh in my  mind given that it was only the other day (12 April) that we marked…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 04/21/2013
Colombo, Religion and faith

Some Thoughts on the Eve of 2012 Vesak

Image courtesy Reuters Two  Veask Poyas  have come and gone and three years  have  sped by since May 2009 when the prolonged war with the LTTE ended. And we Sri Lankans are…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 05/06/2012
Colombo, Features, International, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation

Reflections on Sri Lanka’s Post-Geneva Irrationality

Photo courtesy ISHARA S.KODIKARA, AFP/Getty Images via Chicago Tribune News One can understand to a certain extent the angst of some Sri Lankans over the injury caused to national pride by the ‘Geneva…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 04/22/2012
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Language, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Some Comments of Udayasiri Wickramaratne’s ‘Suddek Oba Amathai’

Photo courtesy Facebook page It is Lakshman Piyasena, introduced to me by my friend Jayantha Dhanapala, who first told me of Udayasiri Wickramaratne’s play. Piyasena urged Dhanapala and me to see a performance…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 03/06/201203/05/2012
Colombo, Identity, Peace and Conflict, Photos, Politics and Governance

The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture and Politics

Duke University Press( Durham and London) has published this superb anthology edited by that most perceptive and shrewd observer of Sri Lanka and its complex social, economic and political history, John Clifford…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 11/20/201111/20/2011
Constitutional Reform, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

IN MEMORIAM DR. CHANAKA AMARATUNGA

I have been invited to make some comments on the late founder-leader of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka, Dr. Chanaka Amaratunga, on the occasion of the anniversary of his birth that…

Tissa Jayatilaka Tissa Jayatilaka on 04/19/201004/20/2010

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