‘Uncivilising’ Sri Lanka
The SLPC Chairperson, Hudson Samarasinghe, is using vulgar telecasts and thereby contributing to the degeneration of language and public discourse within the country. The rudest forms of language used to refer to…
Language
Youth activists on human rights in Sri Lanka
To commemorate Human Rights Day 2009 (falling on 10 December) interviewed a number of leading activists in Sri Lanka to find out their perspectives on current challenges facing human rights in post-war…
The Structure of Tamil Names
My name is Sivapuranam Thevaram, and my origins are in the northern parts of Sri Lanka. I usually identify myself as a Sri Lankan Tamil, strictly in that order. And that order…
