Open letter to the President of Sri Lanka
January 28, 2010 Dear Mr. President, Congratulations on your land slide victory which, like most Colombo elites, I was stunned by. Your spokesperson Dr R Wijesinghe quite rightly described us as shallow…
January 28, 2010 Dear Mr. President, Congratulations on your land slide victory which, like most Colombo elites, I was stunned by. Your spokesperson Dr R Wijesinghe quite rightly described us as shallow…
I’ve been tweeting from around 3am this morning on what’s going on in Colombo after the elections, and in particular what is at the time of writing a rather tense situation around…
The presidential campaigns concluded officially a day ago and the “Programme for Protection of Public Property” (4P) calculated and exposed the cost of advertisements by each of the two main presidential candidates.…
We feature this video captured by today without any additional comment because it is abundantly clear which candidate the sign stapled on to this anomalous polling card refers to. It is also…
“We vote to get president. We get president. But where our vote, we don’t know” was a line that I had saved from a news report on the Iranian presidential polls in…
It appears to be the most powerful electoral alliance that has ever been formed in the country.A political phenomenon, a coalition containing diametrically opposed political views led by someone without any formal…
“And then I knew what to do. I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look And a love of the rack and the screw. And I…
This note concerns the forthcoming Presidential election in Sri Lanka, due on 27 January 2010. As several insightful articles on the polls have already appeared on most crucial of elections since the…
The 5th Presidential election in Sri Lanka is heading towards a photo finish. In this context once again the Tamil issue has become the political football in Sri Lankan politics. Let’s have…
The Salt Dividend Catedral de Sal, Zipaquirá El Dorado Christopher Columbus never set foot in the country named after him; it was Alonso de Ojeda, one of his companions on his second…
Citizens are living through a politically decisive week with just days to elect Sri Lanka’s next Executive President. The next elected Chief Executive, unlike his predecessors, will acquire a unique place in…
:Â Today marks exactly 250 days since Sri Lanka’s civil war officially ended on 18 May 2009. On that momentous day, all Lankans shared at least one sentiment: a huge sense of relief.…
Authors note: I was inspired to write this as we have an election around the corner and saddened to see the way our human values and even human life is sacrificed to…
There has been much debate about the issue of war crimes in Sri Lanka. Both major political parties contesting the elections have used the issue for political leverage, each accusing for the…