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Colombo, Corruption, Environment, Features, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance

Geneva and Other Fateful Trysts

The Defence Secretary is shocked, outraged, and flummoxed. The National Security Council has discussed the ongoing environmental devastation. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men (airmen too) have been mobilised…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 02/21/202102/21/2021
Colombo, Features, Identity, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance

The Defence Secretary and the President

Photo Courtesy of BBC News Sri Lanka is led by a man who has, by his admission, two faces. In a more democratic avatar is Gotabaya Rajapaksa the President. Here, the individual…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 02/02/202102/02/2021
Colombo, Features, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance

Cult and its Heretics

Image Courtesy of Women Working The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders of politics. It spreads its tentacles to every aspect of human life. In his first post-Trump media…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 01/24/202101/24/2021
20th Amendment, Colombo, Features, Issues, Pandemic, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance

2020: The Highlights

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Groundviews Groundviews on 12/29/202012/29/2020
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Features, Long Reads, Politics and Governance

Nonsense Upon Stilts? Revisiting Justifications of Presidentialism In Sri Lanka

With the enactment of the Twentieth Amendment, Sri Lanka embarks yet again down the fraught path of authoritarian presidentialism. Whether this latest adventure ends in a democratic nightmare, or is as fleeting…

Asanga Welikala Asanga Welikala on 11/18/202005/30/2022
Colombo, Features, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance

A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land

A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss, a debt pile-up, an overwhelmed public health system – and the Gotabaya-Mahinda government is planning to build…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 11/15/202011/16/2020
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Environment, Features, Peace and Conflict

Fighting the Fires of Climate Change Through Art

Today is the Global Day of Climate Action Themes of sustainability and environmental degradation have pervaded my work since 2004, long before climate change or the extinction rebellion became global political issues.…

Anoma Wijewardene Anoma Wijewardene on 09/25/202009/25/2020
Colombo, Features, Politics and Governance

An Alternative Reading of the Jathika Chintanaya

The Jathika Chintanaya which emerged in the 1980s and matured in the 1990s continues to exert a considerable influence on mainstream politics and popular opinion here today. The movement’s contribution to historiography…

Uditha Devapriya Uditha Devapriya on 08/26/2020
Colombo, Corruption, Features, Human Rights, Human Security, Parliamentary Elections 2020, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance

Stopping the Landslide

Basil Rajapaksa (Daily FT – 29.7.2020) Basil Rajapaksa is the Rajapaksa family’s thinking man. Unlike his brothers and nephews, he doesn’t shoot his mouth off. His remarks should be taken seriously, because,…

Tisaranee Gunasekara Tisaranee Gunasekara on 08/02/202008/12/2020
Colombo, Features, Peace and Conflict, Reconciliation

Remembering Neelan and Sithie

(written for the 21st Death Anniversary of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam) This is the time to remember Neelan and Sithie Tiruchelvam. Along with Kumari Jayawardena, their living rooms were spaces where scholars and…

Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy on 07/29/202008/12/2020
Features, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Longing and Belonging, Matale, Peace and Conflict, Photos, Post-War, Reconciliation, Remember the Riots

Senthooran: Black July Through the Eyes of a Survivor

It has been 37 years since the anti-Tamil pogrom of July 1983, a riot that set the country ablaze and sparked a 30-year long and bloody war. But even after nearly four…

Sarah Kabir Sarah Kabir on 07/29/202007/29/2020
Colombo, Features, Human Rights, IDPs and Refugees, Longing and Belonging, Peace and Conflict, Post-War, Remember the Riots

Black July: The Unspoken and the Unspeakable

July. Referred to as Black July to mark the pogrom against Tamils in 1983 carried out by Sinhala mobs. Pogrom is a Russian word meaning ‘to wreak havoc, to demolish violently’, that…

Ambika Satkunanathan Ambika Satkunanathan on 07/29/202008/12/2020
Colombo, End of war | 10 years on, Features, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

10 Years After the War: A Reminiscence

Although the war ended a decade ago, the ethno-political and social fractures from violent conflict endure. On no other day are they more apparent than on May 18. Often, what we see,…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/27/2020
Colombo, Features

In memoriam – My editor Lasantha Wickrematunge

Photo courtesy A not-so-young man walked into the room of Lasantha Wickrematunge two decades ago. The man had nothing but a recommendation from his own father when he asked Lasantha for a…

Amantha Perera Amantha Perera on 01/07/2020
Features, International, International Relations, Issues, Politics and Governance, Project Syndicate

Trump’s First Victims

Image courtesy PRINCETON – When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I did not join those who took to the streets in protest. I thought it important to respect…

Peter Singer Peter Singer on 02/02/2017

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