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Culture, Human Rights, Jaffna, justice, Peace and Conflict, Photos, Poetry, Politics and Governance, Reconciliation

Poetry and Photography Reveal the North’s War Trauma

Sarath Chandrajeewa’s first impressions of Jaffna came from his father’s stories about the north where he was stationed as a police officer. His father spoke of the friendliness of Jaffna people, their…

Groundviews Groundviews on 08/31/2023
40 Years After Black July, Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Rebirth and Memory Black July, 40 Years Later

  It is painful to read how Sri Lankan government ministers rallied their goondas to fan out in neighborhoods looking for Tamil   homes marked on voter lists. It is painful to…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 07/23/202307/24/2023
Human Rights, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Jaffna Today

  How to select keys for the door when you know the gatekeeper all too well, when chance and destiny carry the same code words,   when love no longer depends on…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 04/01/2023
Colombo, Gender, Human Rights, Poetry

Blood Sport of a Man

  at her school, it’s not only the muscular jock that makes rape sound like a shaggy-dog story it’s also the averagely built skinny man who camouflages in feminism flexing his wit,…

Kaviru Samarawickrama Kaviru Samarawickrama on 03/08/2023
Colombo, Culture, Gender, Human Rights, Identity, Poetry

Sister, Sister

  We lock pinkies and swear oaths stronger and more fearsome than a man could dream for blood is our birthright so our ties are awash in it drenched in a secret…

Sharon Stephen Sharon Stephen on 03/08/2023
Colombo, Culture, Gender, Human Rights, Identity, Poetry

Boys Will Be Boys

Boys will be boys, And that girl who was groped in the back of the bus, Will go back home, See phantom handprints on her clothes, And wince every time someone comes…

Haala Marikar Haala Marikar on 03/08/202303/08/2023
Colombo, Gender, Identity, Poetry

The Sri Lankan Kella

  I am the woman of my country The product of ‘culture’, of history of a nation The result of procreation The manufactured playground of patriarchy The battlefield of nationalism I am…

Lilanka Botejue Lilanka Botejue on 03/08/202303/08/2023
75 Years of Independence, Identity, Poetry

Independence Song, 2023

Are we free in 2023? To declare love and friendship without fear, without visits from police or blackmail from nosy neighbors? Are we free in 2023? To deny low wages or flagrant…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 02/01/202302/01/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, International, Peace and Conflict, Poetry

The Year’s Fruits

  What did this year bring? It brought the Palais des Nations in Geneva to hear my thoughts on poetry and diplomacy in the early months of the now even   more…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 01/01/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Aragalaya, Tsunami and the New Year Dividend

On this Boxing Day, eighteenth anniversary of the Tsunami I write about the year in which the Aragalaya swept up and dispatched the ruler of the ruling family. He fled first to…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 12/27/2022
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Culture, Media and Communications, Moving Images, Photos, Poetry

Brilliance and Resilience

There have been dark times in Sri Lanka in 2022. Economic anxiety and disruption of existing supply chains for the essential services of food, gasoline, petrol and electricity led to profound distress…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 12/11/202212/11/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Poetry, Politics and Governance

On the Operating Table

  Paralysis, blocked arteries, arrests cutting off ringleaders, in a plot to silence the flow and will of the majority, this reality implemented swiftly once the dictator fled to be replaced by…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 11/03/2022
Colombo, Culture, Economy, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Adamant

Anita’s Feast It means we must harden into granite and diamond, On the inside, where it really counts It means each of us determining ourselves, by taking prompt, external action instead of…

Devika Brendon Devika Brendon on 10/18/2022
Diaspora, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Poetry

Anbudan, the Memory Remains Forever

  ”Sometimes tears flow uncontrollably and I cannot work anymore. I know I want to be strong, I want to call my historical strength as a woman. I want to remember and…

Aravinthan Ganeshan Aravinthan Ganeshan on 09/21/202209/26/2022
Colombo, Poetry, Politics and Governance

Gota At Home

“Gota go home” the Aragalaya demanded. Now, fifty odd days after going abroad instead, he has returned, to a garland   and a motorcade, to bodyguards and decoy cars, to a house…

Indran Amirthanayagam Indran Amirthanayagam on 09/03/2022

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