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…
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…
“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…
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…
My perspective is the one of a 25 year old who was born in Sri Lanka during the war and who came to France at the age of 1; one who is…
Photo by AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, via Sulekha During the last week of October this year, the BBC Sinhala Sandeshaya service featured a story about Sri Lankan tourism, which was in turn aired…
Images courtesy Multicultural Arts Victoria My presentation will be an attempt to critically analyse my experience as a Franco-Sri Lankan in Sri Lanka and how I feel, as part of Sri Lanka’s…
Decorated Kitchen Knifes, Sculpture and Canvas Installation, Jagath Weerasinghe, courtesy Mediated by Saskia Fernando Gallery Speaking about the capacity that art may have to contribute to a social achievement like building sustainable…
Nilakshi De Silva is a Senior Research Professional at the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA), and in this interview, talks about the multi-faceted challenges facing development in Sri Lanka post-war, including the…