30 Years Ago – Groundviews

30 Years Ago, Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Culture, Human Rights, Jaffna, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Remember the Riots

30 Years Ago: Audio recordings of panel discussions

Photograph by Tehani Ariyaratne, from 30 Years Ago To complement the launch of 30 Years Ago and focus on some of the issues the project is anchored to and inspired by, four panel discussions…

Groundviews on 09/18/2013

30 Years Ago, Colombo, Features, Remember the Riots

‘Black July’ now available for download on iTunes

is pleased to announce that ‘Black July‘, an edited volume anchored to articles originally published on this site, is now available for download on Apple’s iTunes bookstore in 51 stores globally. The volume is…

Groundviews on 09/07/201309/07/2013

30 Years Ago, Colombo, Remember the Riots

Archiving multiple drafts of history

Presentation by Dilrukshi Handunnetti delivered at panel discussion on 25th August 2013, as part of the ‘30 Years Ago‘ exhibition. Photograph courtesy The Ravaya Collection. My first memories of July 1983 remain vivid. There…

Dilrukshi Handunnetti on 08/27/201309/05/2013

30 Years Ago, Colombo

30 Years Ago: Exhibition details, 24-25 August 2013

To complement the launch of 30 Years Ago and focus on some of the issues the project is anchored to and inspired by, readers of are cordially invited to attend four panel…

Groundviews on 08/19/2013

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 on 08/19/201308/19/2013

30 Years Ago, Colombo, Puttalam, Remember the Riots

30 Years Ago – The Next Page

To remember Black July, brought together leading documentary filmmakers, photographers, activists, theorists and designers, in Sri Lanka and abroad, to focus on just how deeply the anti-Tamil pogrom in 1983 shaped our imagination, lives,…

Groundviews on 08/19/201308/20/2013