DIASPORA EXTREMISM, INDIA, CHINA & SRI LANKA
“A social group kindred and allied groups.“ “ Gramsci The Wiki leaks mega “dump“ is an international relations s analyst“s dream. It is also great fun, don“t you think? Consider this: if…
“A social group kindred and allied groups.“ “ Gramsci The Wiki leaks mega “dump“ is an international relations s analyst“s dream. It is also great fun, don“t you think? Consider this: if…
I had an “aha“ moment this morning about my own patterns of habits when I was reflecting on an incident when I felt let down by someone close to me. I have…
Statement issued by Mr Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka For security reasons the speech by His Excellency President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka at the Oxford Union, the home…
No one will deny that Sri Lanka has experienced dramatic changes over the past 18 months. The military defeat of the LTTE came as a surprise to many defence and security analysts,…
Deshamanya Bradman Weerakoon, who turned 80 recently, is an elder statesman in Sri Lanka and one of the oldest living civil servants in the country. During over half a century of public…
Updated 2.15pm, 30th November with added analysis of tags “The first is that, in Sri Lanka, it would never be possible for any one to play “Julian Assange” and dare face an…
When the LTTE showed, consistently and convincingly, that it did not understand the language of ‘peace’, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, correctly, turned to a language that the LTTE understood well; ‘war’. All other…
If President Rajapakse should come in for a bit of stick, it is not for the overall record of his just completed first term and the dawn of his second. If anyone…
[Editors note: Also see for video footage from and a review of the production.] Ruhanie Perera and Jake Oorloff co-created Floating Space in 2007. Gaza Monologues was their latest production, running to…
Photo of courtesy le sauce Most performances of Dhananjaya Karunarathne’s brilliant scrip (The Story of the Last Bus) are memorable not just because of the acting, but also because the audience becomes,…
Name and shame the whores that act in pornographic films online. Their seedy grainy stuck-between-teeth pictures plastered across newspapers will be the deterrent for other whores who have the same idea. Designate…
Written to mark the forthcoming publication of , Edited by Gnana Moonesinghe We are no closer to nation building post war than we were during it, and before it. More accurately, we…
‘Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about things that matter’ -Â Dr Martin Luther King I feel compelled to defend the blasphemy committed through the article titled ‘Cardinal Errors’…
[Editors note: This short article responds to, in part, the submission made by someone called ‘Maverick’ on the website in response to a previous article by the author. Maverick’s comment is well-written…
[Editors note: See map of campus and university student related violence over 2010 alone here.] The university has been the most dependable and organic reservoir of full time political as well as…