In conversation with Chandana Sirimalwatte
Chandana Sirimalwatte is the Editor of the was attacked with iron rods in Jaffna. Chandana’s been arrested, interrogated by the CID and has had his press sealed. In October 2009, he was…
Media and Communications
Resource book for historians, researchers and media: A year of tweeting from Groundviews
Visualisation of our Twitter followers. See larger version here. We used the web service Tweet Book to capture all our tweets over the past year in a single PDF. We’ve tweeted thousands of…
Exclusive interview with Callum McCrae, Director of ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ produced by Channel 4
caught up with Callum McCrae, Director of the highly controversial and very disturbing film by Channel 4, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, in New York, a day before the film was due to…
Groundviews blocked in Sri Lanka (Updated)
Update, 7.40pm: As we note in our tweet, we wish the Sri Lankan government made up its mind! This site, and even Transparency International’s site are now unblocked on SLT ADSL. The…
Sri Lanka’s Post-War Crisis: War Crimes and Channel 4
Following the broadcast of ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ on the 14th of June and its public release – for seven days – on Channel 4’s website, there has been an overwhelming international…
Watch Moving Images at Kandy International Film Festival (KIFF)
We are very pleased to announce that films from Moving Images will be part of the first Kandy International Film Festival (KIFF). Though the official schedule is still being finalised, we have…
Floating Spaces: Theatre and censorship in Sri Lanka
Some of the best conversations featured on this site have been with those involved in the arts in Sri Lanka. Noted theatre personalities featured on to date include Tracy Holsinger, Mohamed Adamaly…
Finding the Middle Ground
Just over a week ago, a couple of my colleagues and I appeared on a prominent Canadian talk show discussing our attempts, as both individuals and organizing members of the Young Canadians’ Peace…
The continuing disinformation campaigns in Sri Lanka: Is mainstream media complicit?
For the second time in a fortnight, subscribers to the newspaper have been entreated to an interesting disinformation campaign that appears to be conducted with those embedded within, and possibly with the…
Going beyond mainstream media: The best Twitter feeds on and from Sri Lanka
Just over a year ago, in April 2010, launched two curated Twitter lists on Sri Lanka to help those in and outside the country access news, information and critical conversations that went…
A review of ‘The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lankan & The Last Days of the Tamil Tigers’
I was elated to take delivery of my copy of with articles perceived to be against the incumbent government, that this tome will be freely sold in bookstores. The publication and release…
Elephant Walk revisited: Mixing Tea, Jumbos and Monsoons
[Editors note: For an in-depth interview on Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict, see ] If those hardy Englishmen and Scotsmen who ran large tea plantations in Ceylon were far removed from the local people…
umbrella over bird
we didn’t know we stopped: the undoing doing its disappearing the man himself —disappearing gone. what to do? muttering him through corners, hyde park; lincoln immemorial; where we said speakers should…
The Reckoning: Press Freedom in Sri Lanka
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff “The freedom to speak and the freedom to write are essential preconditions for the transition towards democracy and good governance” – We are living in the world, in which committed journalists writes…
ICTs, science fiction and disasters: A conversation with Nalaka Gunawardene
I last spoke to Nalaka Gunawardene on public television in February 2009. Nalaka’s varied interests and experience is hard to pin down, but the issues he most often writes on are anchored…