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Writing to Reconcile in Sri Lanka
Image courtesy Green College I interviewed over email the award-winning author Shyam Selvadurai on a new initiative called Write to Reconcile, of which he is Project Director. featured an in-depth interview with…
Image courtesy Green College I interviewed over email the award-winning author Shyam Selvadurai on a new initiative called Write to Reconcile, of which he is Project Director. featured an in-depth interview with…
Image courtesy Flickr Debates of the Senate (Hansard) 1st Session, 41st Parliament, Volume 148, Issue 130 Wednesday, December 12, 2012 Hon. Hugh Segal: Honourable senators, the recent and further steps by the…
Photo courtesy “Bonaparte throws the whole bourgeois economy into confusion, violates everything that seemed inviolable to the Revolution of 1848, makes some tolerant of revolution and makes others lust for it, and…
Work and travel kept me from writing about two significant theatre productions in the past month. Ariel Dorfman’s ‘Widows’ directed by Feroze Kamardeen and produced by Sirraj Abdul Hameed was staged at…
Photo courtesy Chaos and Fear Much has happened in the space of three months. Soon after the Eastern Provincial Council election came the (Heroes’ Day) incidents in Jaffna. It would seem…
After the violent unrest that started late November in Jaffna, (for photos and background, read has continuously received updates on the ground situation. In addition to forwarding these updates via email, we…
Cartoon by W R Wijesoma – Development that leaves some behind Paul Hermann Müller (1899 – 1965) was a Swiss chemist. He won the 1948 Nobel Prize in physiology (medicine) for his…
Photo courtesy Dushiyanthini “The trees being cut-down on Reid Avenue are the perfect example of the kind of ‘development’ that Colombo, and some other parts of Sri Lanka, are now facing.” (http://groundviews.org/2012/12/03/the-felling-of-a-tree/) …
Photo courtesy Dushiyanthini When I heard that the large, beautiful trees that pave Reid Avenue in Colombo were being felled, my heart broke. I was so stirred inside – and it was…
“We used to be a very proud people”1 – Uma, I Few years ago, during a very wintery January weekend, at a Copenhagen hotel, I was scrambling to prepare a last minute…
Will and would have a habit of changing places in Sri Lankan English. Sometimes (“I knew the car will be there”), and sometimes it’s the other way round (“We would inform you…
Every 26th[1] and 27th of November since the end of the war (2009), we hear of people in the North not being able to moan their dead, not being able to carry…
Image courtesy ICG Facebook page The recently released report “Sri Lanka: Tamil Politics and the Quest for a Political Solution” by the International Crisis Group [ICG] is a timely contribution to the…
Photo courtesy Business Today Minister Wimal Weerawansa, nicknamed as the ‘, during the 2010 presidential election campaign, came up with a rather serious proposal some two months back: To have a referendum…
In response to a news report over the truly staggering losses incurred by Mihin Lanka, we tweeted, Essential reading for mind-boggling figures of Mihin losses | http://t.co/Xrgc9pGi @anushwij @cepaSL @TalkEconomicsSL #lka #srilanka…