The media ‘Konvicted’
The Akon rumpus, with all its nutty and freaky sides, did have one thing good about it. It raised the question, “what is media freedom ?” Except for “”Sirasa”” and its group…
The Akon rumpus, with all its nutty and freaky sides, did have one thing good about it. It raised the question, “what is media freedom ?” Except for “”Sirasa”” and its group…
GROSS PLAGIARISM BY NIBRAS BAWA, AUTHOR OF THIS POST A sharp reader alerted that this article contains plagiarised content. Upon further inspection, we discovered that entire portions of the article have been…
The 24th of February marked the first month anniversary of the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneligoda, the Lanka E-News journalist. Two special Police teams are said to be on the case. They have…
Manik de Silva is the most senior and longest-serving Editor of an English newspaper in Sri Lanka. Presently the Editor of the . In July 2009, he was elected as the President…
Prof. Kumar David, an electrical engineer by training, regular columnist in traditional print media and a frequent commentator on , talks about what’s left of leftist politics in Sri Lanka, the end…
Ameena Hussein is one of Sri Lanka’s best known English authors. She is also one half of the Perera Hussein Publishing House, that since 2003 has published some of the best new…
A solitary lamp perched on a desk top lights a room. A man scribbles feverishly on paper, hunched over the light as if he’s jealously guarding what little he has. His desk…
Mr. Gomin Dayasiri’s article, titled ‘Tamil Grievances – Untouched & Unattended’ (, 16 February 2010) reveals the Sinhala nationalist perspective concerning the kind of solution necessary for the resolution of the ethnic…
was able to obtain an audio recording of an exchange between Swiss journalist Karin Wenger and a well-known, senior journalist now part of the Presidential Media Unit (PMU). Karin’s visa and media…
From the first update after the close of polls at around 10pm on the 25th and then from around 3am on the morning of the 26th, gave regular updates on the high…
[Editors note: Higher resolution versions of the photos used in this story are available from the gallery at the bottom of this story.] ‘Colombo isn’t the country’, many election pundits say. It…
Political commentators seem to have run out of superlatives when attempting to describe the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapakse. Academics have joined the fray, falling over themselves to award him honorary degrees…
Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam was enlarged on bail today pending the appeal of his conviction under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. here. repeatedly flagged the case of Tissainayagam as a significant affront…
[Authors note: Please also read Part 1 of this article] The much awaited manifesto of General (Rtd) Fonseka the Common Candidate launched on 7January which proves the Opposition Alliance is too loose…
[Editors note: The following text is from a speech at the Platform for Freedom event commemorating Lasantha Wickremetunge’s brutal murder a year ago. The widow of the slain editor, Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge,…