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75 Years of Independence, Colombo, Politics and Governance

The International Dimension of Sri Lankan State Formation

This article explains a framework for analysing Sri Lankan state formation and understanding the current challenges that the country is facing. My interest in state formation began when trying to make sense…

Sunil Bastian Sunil Bastian on 02/05/2023
75 Years of Independence, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Still Looking for Independence after 75 years

The media have been replete with the pronouncements that the president of Sri Lanka was going to resolve the ethnic issue by taking some rapid action measures. However, scepticism was inevitable when…

Lionel Bopage Lionel Bopage on 02/05/2023
75 Years of Independence, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The Nation at 75

Sri Lanka celebrates its 75th independence day today. The event has provoked much debate and discussion. Coming on top of the worst financial crisis in the country’s post-independence history, it coincides with…

Uditha Devapriya Uditha Devapriya on 02/04/2023
75 Years of Independence, Colombo, Development, Economy, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation

Sri Lanka at 75: Whose Motherland, What Freedoms?

Sri Lanka’s national anthem presents a vision of the country as a motherland to many, life giving and filled with nature’s abundance and beauty, a place of truth seeking and wisdom. It…

Savitri Hensman Savitri Hensman on 02/04/202302/04/2023
Colombo, Healthcare

Chemsex is Threatening Health Security

The world has become more complicated day by day and people are trying to find new ways to enjoy their lives such as using drugs and liquor as external happiness tools. There…

Thusitha Bulathgama Thusitha Bulathgama on 02/03/2023
75 Years of Independence, Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, Politics and Governance

Not Upstanding Citizens

Some countries have a Ministry For Women’s Affairs. Some call it The Department of Women’s and Children’s Affairs. Some countries do not even have a token ministry to uphold the welfare and…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 02/03/202302/03/2023
75 Years of Independence, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

February 4: Has It Ever Been Relevant?

The first Independence day celebration I could remember as a kid was 1984. I still remember it simply because the celebrations took place in my hometown, Kalutara. It was an extravagant half…

Prof. Hiroshan Hettiarachchi Prof. Hiroshan Hettiarachchi on 02/02/202302/02/2023
Colombo, Development, Economy, Environment, Politics and Governance

Conservation: Reaching a Point of No Return

Last year, Covid dominated all conversations and contributed to the further exacerbation of a multitude of existing man-made environmental and conservation disasters. “Sadly, conservation management decisions seem now to be made at…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 01/25/202301/25/2023
Colombo, Culture, Education, Human Rights, Religion and faith

Religious Indoctrination Violates Children’s Rights

Hobson’s choice is not that bad because it offers you two options: you can either take what is offered or take nothing at all. However, the tradition of parents indoctrinating children with…

Susantha Hewa Susantha Hewa on 01/24/2023
Colombo, Politics and Governance

Reflections on State Formation

This article explains a framework for analysing Sri Lankan state formation and understanding the current challenges that the country is facing. My interest in state formation began when trying to make sense…

Sunil Bastian Sunil Bastian on 01/23/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Resolution Dream

  We cared for Indira Gandhi. She understood Lankan Tamil plight and the need for redress, return of lands, control over local affairs. And how could a liberation movement win   without…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 01/23/2023
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Culture, Moving Images

Sumitra: Last Emissary of a Bygone Era

My Lunches with Orson is the title of a collection of interviews that Henry Jaglom, a US avant-garde filmmaker, did with Orson Welles over a period of two years (1983-1985). It is…

Uditha Devapriya Uditha Devapriya on 01/22/202301/23/2023
Colombo, Development, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance

Villagers Fight to Regain Their Land in Panama

Panama is a remote village at the southern end of the eastern province in the Ampara district. The slogan often used in land struggles, land is life, is true for most people…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 01/20/202301/30/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, International Relations, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Answering for Past Crimes and Ending Present Injustices

A Supreme Court judgement, a new US law, Canadian sanctions and United Nations evidence gathering are making it increasingly hard for Sri Lanka’s past and present rulers to avoid accountability for large…

Savitri Hensman Savitri Hensman on 01/19/202301/22/2023
Colombo, Culture, Peace and Conflict, Religion and faith

Peace, Religion and Religions

Religion doesn’t exist in the singular in reality. In the real world it exists only in the plural – over 4,000 religions although some place the number as high as 10,000. With…

Susantha Hewa Susantha Hewa on 01/18/202301/18/2023

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