Prawns and privations: Sugeeth’s life in Slave Island
At 27 years old, Sugeeth Kumar is part of a generation of Slave Island’s young entrepreneurs. Tiring of the long hours his previous job at Pizza Hut required, he decided that if…
Media and Communications
Koothu: Theatre and leprosy in Jaffna
How does a taxi driver take the sick to the hospital when there’s no fuel around? How does a newspaper publish news of bombs and deaths without newsprint? And how does a…
Recycling the plastic we throw to make a living: Nazaruddin’s work in Slave Island
On a walk down one of the many byroads of Slave Island during midday, we encountered a curious sight: a fairly elderly man wearing a sarong and a dusty green cap, sitting…
Paper: The incredible story of Uthayan in Jaffna
How does a taxi driver take the sick to the hospital when there’s no fuel around? How does a newspaper publish news of bombs and deaths without newsprint? And how does a…
Government MP Rajiva Wijesinha clarifies allegation against Groundviews
Rajiva Wijesinha, MP, in his column published in the today, expressly notes that, “I have now had an opportunity to read through what is supposed to be the Report of the Panel…
Sharing a common god: The Sivasubramaniam Kovil in Slave Island
Munisekar has always been devout. From the age of nine, he began working at the Sivasubramaniam Kovil of Slave Island – the place of worship closest to where he lived with his…
The ‘dobis’ in Colombo: Unseen people, used by most
In a locality where washing lines heavy with colour light up even the most mundane landscape, Navam Mawatha’s laundry seems a nucleus of sorts. Surrounded by banks and plush office spaces, the…
A Home for Books
Original photo courtesy Tarika Wickremeratne For as long as I can remember we have had books in the house. To my child’s eye it seemed that every room was spilling over with…
Groundviews now formatted for iPad
After our launch of Sri Lanka’s as well as South Asia’s first citizen journalism app for Apple’s iPhone 4, we are now pleased to launch a version of the site tailored for…
Sri Lanka’s and South Asia’s first citizen journalism iPhone app
app works on the iPod Touch, iPad and is optimised for the iPhone 4’s Retina display. “This inovative app enables those, particularly in the diaspora, to more easily access updated content published…
Commemorative lecture on second death anniversary of Lasantha Wickrematunge
“” ~ Martin Luther King Jr, (15 January 1929 ~ 4 April 1968), (Activist, Clergyman, and prominent leader in African ~ American Civil rights movement) A commemorative lecture to mark the second…
Focus on Badulla: Landslides
The rains over the last couple of days have had a devastating effect on many parts of Badulla and surroundings. It is not floods but landslides that are causing most of the…
GLF: A space for activists?
A playground for Colombo’s “artsy fartsy?” A personal initiative by G. Dobbs (Founder) to increase the per capita income of G. Dobbs? A promotional tactic to draw tourists to our fair land?…
On Relative Rights
A short fall in human rights suggests a failure in the harvest, perhaps a missing plank in the slide, and some will go flying, others hungry, while you add ridiculous to describe…
Writing against the RSF/JDS appeal to boycott the Galle Literary Festival
[Editors note: We were sent this personal letter from Sunila Abeysekara addressed to a leading signatory of the RSF/JDS appeal to boycott the Galle Literary Festival. She kindly agreed to publish it…