Quo Vadis, the Conga Line?
When Sri Lanka vied for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, there was a telling photograph taken at one of the bashes the regime threw in the Caribbean, the culminating event of a labour…
Corruption
Bell Pottinger and Sri Lanka: A trail of spin doctoring and whitewashing
Aside from articles appearing last Sunday in the ran a story on how Bell Pottinger had written the President’s speech to the UN after the end of the war in 2009. The…
Local government elections: Military puppeteers, elected puppets, right to information and people’s liberties
[Editors note: The author is at the time of writing, the head of the Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Municipal Council (SJKMC) campaign committee for the UNP. .] First impressions of Kotte: Similar concerns among dissimilar people…
Searching for Sri Lanka’s Anna Hazare
Anna Hazare, courtesy Injustices.in Foundation It was just last week that the BBC featured a documentary describing the post war atrocities committed against vulnerable Tamil women in the north and east who…
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with TNA MP Suresh Premachandran on the LG elections, Parliamentary Select Committee and Political Solution
caught up with TNA Member of Parliament Suresh Premachandran, who spoke to us about the nature of election violations that occurred in the Northern Province prior to the 23rd of July and…
The state of tomfoolery: 2018 Comonwealth Games in Hambantota
A prominent English newspaper recently reported that the government has paid US$ 2.4 million to a British PR firm to promote its candidacy to host the 2018 Comonwealth Games in Hambanthota. This…
In conversation with Nelum Gamage: Does anyone give a damn about corruption?
Nelum Gamage, a Director of Transparency International Sri Lanka, was an erstwhile Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), established in 1994 to direct the institution…
The Ethical Public Servant
The article BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION: Dr. Daya Hewapathirane prompted me to go deeper into this issue in the public sector. I must also note that corruption is not confined to the public…
“Chiran Jayathu” – “Aayubowewa”
Let all as citizens comprising the civil society of Sri Lanka, join together in unison and with one voice, in response to the earnest appeal made by Renton de Alwis in “Back…
Tamils done with – Sinhalese to be done with
“Then they came for me” an oft quoted poem by German pastor Niemoller, in stressing the need for timely political action in difficult political contexts does have sense today, in its abstract…
Bell Pottinger and Sri Lanka: Millions spent for what?
Though freely available on the web since January this year, this information to the best of our knowledge has not been prominently featured or robustly questioned in mainstream media to date. Bell…