Investigate us, or stop the harassment and false allegations!
Speaking at a media conference to launch “Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka: Struggle for survival“, a damning new report on the state of Sri Lankan media drafted by…
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“Some people were shot while going to see their houses on the road like dogsâ€Â
Interview was taken from: MRS.GNANAPRAGASAM ARASAMMAH, 53 years. Displaced from: PALAI NAGAR, MUTHUR 2, Trincomalee Now at the welfare Centre: SRI KONALINGA MAHA VITHYALAYAM IDP’S CAMP – LINGA NAGAR, Trincomalee We all…
TOLERATING THE INTOLERABLE: AN EPILOGUE TO UVINDU
Uvindu Kurukulasuriya’s inaugural piece in Groundviews is an aptly Niemölleresque exhortation to greater civic responsibility in the defence of political freedom, civil liberties and the Rule of Law. It comes at a…
Find the parallels – Hitler’s rise in Germany and lessons for Sri Lanka
My first article to Groundviews is on the rise of Hitler in Germany. The article is in Sinhala. All I ask the reader to do at the end of the article is…
White Vans, Disappearances And Abductions
Lets talk about white vans, disappearances and abductions. How much do people who don’t speak in Tamil know about these subjects, and conversely how much do people who speak in Tamil know…
“We need a revolution in Sri Lanka!” – A brief chat with Sam de Silva
Photo credit: Nazreen Sansoni “on one level, Sri Lanka needs a revolution to really change what’s going on here. There is such a domination by the powers that be… there needs to…
Prices Improve In Jaffna
Jaffna people are a little happy now. All the essential item prices are down a little bit and things are available at pavement shops. Still the prices are double or triple the…
The wages of passivity
Sri Lanka’s Muslims have long kept quiet while Tamil militancy has made its own demands. Now they are becoming restive, fearing that silence may have cost them too much. By | Dilrukshi…
CIRCLES OF VIOLENCE – GOING ROUND AND ROUND
I watched Sam De Silva’s film ‘Circles of Violence’ on Tuesday. I will be brutally blunt and say I didn’t like it at all. I am a skeptic when it comes to…
The advent of terror politics
Amidst shackles – Notes of a citizen journalist Sunanda Deshapriya’s article in Sinhala explores the recent statements of Champika Ranawaka, Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the Rajapaksa government and a…
The politics of hate and harm
Most readers in Colombo would have seen the posters of the National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT) calling for the peace, media and leftist ‘Tigers’ to be identified and destroyed. This columnist was…
Circles of Violence: A Return to Sri Lanka
CIRCLES OF VIOLENCE : A Return to Sri Lanka is film that about which Sam got in first got in touch with me around two years ago. He filmed 3 – 4…
Peace Counts
Bad news is good news: The notion that disaster and despair are more newsworthy than peace and harmony is widely known. Countries like Columbia, Israel, Northern Ireland and the Philippines have had…
Students Missing In Jaffna
– More Information Added Feb 28 – Two students are missing in Vadamaradchi. P.Yaseetharan and K.Sivaruban, who are Uduppidy American Mission students, are missing since Sunday afternoon. Their parents have made a…
Thoughts on Chatroom, a play by Enda Walsh directed by Tracy Holsinger
Photo credit: Christian Northeast , directed by Tracy Holsinger and produced by Mind Adventures Theatre Company, was a refreshing departure from banal productions that usually feature in Colombo. Dealing with suicide and…