‘Enchantment galore’ upon the senses of theatregoers seemed the motive and motif for the twelfth year anniversary show of ‘Pyramus and Thisby’ written and directed by seasoned theatre practitioner Jehan Aloysius, which…
Many middle-aged displaced Tamils who have resettled in Colombo remain reluctant to return to their places of origin in Jaffna due to personal and professional reasons. This article explains how they have…
Sri Lankan women hold placards during a demonstration to mark “One Billion Rising” campaign called to bring an end to violence against women, on Valentines Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Feb….
Photo courtesy Sri Lanka Mirror “Through conviction one crosses the flood Through heedfulness the sea.” Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha (Alawaka Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya, Sutta Pitakaya) Raised from the Ground restarted the writing-life of…
Featured image courtesy Colombo Gazette On April 4, the no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister was defeated after a marathon 12 hour Parliamentary debate, with 122 MPs voting against the motion, and…
Photo courtesy South China Morning Post The outcome of the voting at the conclusion of parliamentary debate yesterday on the No Confidence Motion in the Prime Minister has three immediate and readily visible…
Featured image: Screenshot from ChannelNewsAsia interview Is there a low – cost way out from the present crisis boiling within the Maithripala Sirisena- Ranil Wickremasinghe administration? During the past few days, a…
Featured image courtesy VCG Photo Hard on the heels of the local government elections, the Joint Opposition (JO) emboldened by the unexpectedly robust performance of their nascent political party, the Sri Lanka…
Featured image courtesy ada.lk One serious political question that emerges from Sri Lanka’s current political impasse is the following: why has a reformist democratic regime, with domestic popular support as well as…
Featured image courtesy IPLeaders.in The post itself was perfect at a glance – everything I could have imagined and more, and even stood up against my questioning nature. Regardless of the name…
Corridors of Power, the critically acclaimed collaboration between constitutional theorist Asanga Welikala, architect Channa Daswatta and the Founding Editor of Groundviews, Sanjana Hattotuwa, was invited by world renowned curator Sharmini Pereira to…
Image from The end of war in Sri Lanka, captured for posterity by Google Earth I am very pleased to announce that Raisa Wickrematunge has taken over as Editor-in-Chief of Groundviews. She is joined…
Photo courtesy The Sunday Leader The long-awaited report by the ‘Justice Saleem Marsoof’ (JSM) committee that was set up to ‘consider and propose reforms to the Muslim personal law and Quazi Courts…
Featured image courtesy IndiaTimes The local government election of 10 February 2018 marked a triumphant return of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Though the polls were meant to elect representatives for local government…
AFP PHOTO / Ishara S. KODIKARA courtesy The Wire The on-going political crisis following the local government elections of February 10 raises an issue about the constitutional and political propriety of presidential…
