Photo courtesy Herald Sun Australia has recently been dealing with an upsurge of asylum seekers who have traveled by boat from elsewhere in Asia. The notes that, “While most boats originate in…
On 2nd July, the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) organised a panel discussion on preventing human smuggling and trafficking. The event was as much a forum to discuss the incredible increase in,…
Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, President’s Counsel, is a Member of Parliament from the United National Party, and currently President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka. In the past, Mr. Rajapakshe’s also chaired the…
Still image captured from BBC video interview. The above excerpts need no elucidation. They are from two telephone conversations between the Defence Secretary Gotahbaya Rajapaksha and the Editor of the of 08…
Image courtesy Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone The extent of military presence in the North of Sri Lanka has understandably been the focus of much attention. This week’s edition of the Economic…
Along with printed and bound copies of the over 1,400 comments in Tamil, Sinhala and English generated by (coming to over 300 pages), the following letter was penned and delivered to the…
Photo courtesy The Blue Bookcase Around two months ago, I picked up on a whim edited by Robert Swartwood. Swartwood’s definition of hint fiction is ‘a story of 25 words or fewer that…
Image courtesy Onlanka News The Obama administration did fight to get a seat on the Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2009; something that George W. Bush probably did not even contemplate. And,…
Thirty years of civil war may have resulted in an awkward reconciliation process on racial fronts, but one thing it hasn’t diminished is our overlapping plethora of religious practices. We are born…
Image courtesy [Editors note: Read Part 2 of this series here, with PDFs of parts A-C of the questionnaire] The defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May of…
Two contrasting insights into reconciliation were on display in the last ten days – one in the field of sports and the other in the field of politics. The former relates to…
Photo courtesy , via dbsjeyaraj.com From its inception in late 1949 as the Tamil Federal Party, the (ITAK) – a party which, as the late Lakshman Kadirgamar once claimed in Parliament, was founded…
I clearly remember Bishop de Chickera at S. Thomas’ College, from around 25 years years ago. The fact that I hadn’t seen him in person for a quarter of a century hit…
Screen grab from BBC video In March after making a feature on enforced disappearances for the BBC, I made a further radio broadcast for our From Our Own Correspondent programme, later expanded…
Image courtesy I must admit that reading Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke’s (DJ) recent piece, on Groundviews and elsewhere, on Mr. R. Sampathan’s (RS) speech at the ITAK convention, left me very disturbed. In…
