School admissions
R.M.B Senanayake The Supreme Court is looking into the Education Ministry circular on School Admissions. According to a writer in the Daily News the court wants to ensure equal treatment for all…
Issues
Groundviews YouTube video channel
All videos posted on Groundviews (and hosted on Youtube) can now be found at Video Stories. We will add new content to the Groundviews channel regularly from videos uploaded by other content…
Vienna Convention and Sri Lankan Child Worker on Death Row
Donna E. Chung, Ph.D. International Trade and Labour Compliance Advisor Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. Washington, D.C. 20 July 2007 On 15 July 2007, just one day before the deadline, a judicial…
Dallas – Are you listening? Part II
පුරවà·à·ƒà·’ සටහන්: ඩලස් ඔබට ඇහෙනවà·à¶¯? My first post on public transport in Sri Lanka (see Dallas – Are you listening?) ended with a challenge to the Minister of Transport to do something…
Wars and Waves: Sri Lanka’s internally displaced
The 28 minute documentary “Wars and Waves: Sri Lanka’s internally displaced” that was produced by COHRE, and directed and written by me, is available online. There was a small private launch a…
“Our people are at your mercy” – Tamils flee Sri Lanka conflict
“I have a moral duty to pacify wherever there is irritation given to the Sinhalese. I have a duty to pacify them and tell them our people are at your mercy. They…
Thoughts on the capture of Thoppigala
“Then why the hell are we at war?” So blurted out a person next to me at a meeting recently on Federalism in Colombo, at which Bimal Ratnayake said that even if…
Ranil Wickramasinghe on Thoppigala
Ranil Wickramasingha and his party spokespersons are quite worried these days about the way in which Toppigala operation was carried out by the security forces. Wickramasinghe’s initial position is capturing Thoppigala is…
BEYOND FEDERALISM?: LIBERALISM’S CHALLENGES IN SRI LANKA
This columnist has been associated for the past several years with that much-maligned minority that can be broadly labelled ‘liberal federalists’ on the question of peace and constitutional reform in Sri Lanka.…
Rebuilding the East and Other Stories . . .
Source of cartoon: Daily Mirror July 14 2007 So, Thoppigala the seemingly last bastion of the LTTE in the East has been liberated and now the East is ‘open’ for ‘development’. In…
Scent of the Lotus Pond: Censoring art or protecting culture?
Groundviews was able to obtain footage of a scene the Public Performance Board of Sri Lanka seeks to completely remove from Sathyajith Maitipe’s film Scent of the Lotus Pond. In a review…
Diaspora ‘Wisdom’ – An interview with Lionel Bopage
Groundviews | VOR Radio podcast Perhaps the word ‘wisdom’ is too strong when describing what the Sri Lankan diaspora can contribute to solving the problems on this small island, but there is…
Suggestion to the Select Committee on Electoral Reform
by R.M.B. Senanayake The Select Committee on Electoral Reform headed by Minister Dinesh Gunawardene has submitted a very good report making recommendations which will clean up our electoral politics by removing structures…
Dallas – Are you listening?
My article is based on vignettes of commuting in public transport. The first short story is on a trip down South to see my mother and the travails of a journey from…
Rajpal Abeynaike, Editor of Lakbima, offers exceptional responses to story on Groundviews
I’m breaking with the established guidelines for this site to reproduce in full the response of Rajpal Abeynaike, Editor of Lakbima, in response to the story this website ran on his practice…