REVALUATING THE RAJAPAKSE PRESIDENCY
If President Rajapakse should come in for a bit of stick, it is not for the overall record of his just completed first term and the dawn of his second. If anyone…
If President Rajapakse should come in for a bit of stick, it is not for the overall record of his just completed first term and the dawn of his second. If anyone…
Photo of courtesy le sauce Most performances of Dhananjaya Karunarathne’s brilliant scrip (The Story of the Last Bus) are memorable not just because of the acting, but also because the audience becomes,…
Let all as citizens comprising the civil society of Sri Lanka, join together in unison and with one voice, in response to the earnest appeal made by Renton de Alwis in “Back…
Written to mark the forthcoming publication of , Edited by Gnana Moonesinghe We are no closer to nation building post war than we were during it, and before it. More accurately, we…
It was reported in the newspapers a few days ago that nearly a thousand individuals had come forward to make representations to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission during its sessions in …
‘Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about things that matter’ -Â Dr Martin Luther King I feel compelled to defend the blasphemy committed through the article titled ‘Cardinal Errors’…
[Editors note: This short article responds to, in part, the submission made by someone called ‘Maverick’ on the website in response to a previous article by the author. Maverick’s comment is well-written…
Photo courtesy Critical Narrative What defeated the Democrats in the mid-term elections was not a failure of Obama’s leadership, but the result of six unchanging realities of American society, some of which…
For nearly six decades since Universal Adult Franchise was introduced in 1931, our State Council/ Parliamentary elections have been on a First Past the Post (FPP) basis. The first Parliamentary election on…
[Editors note: See map of campus and university student related violence over 2010 alone here.] The university has been the most dependable and organic reservoir of full time political as well as…
Image courtesy South Asia Foreign Relations Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU, Ravinatha Aryasinha says that NGOs need to complement the work done by Sri Lanka in a post-conflict…
Though there have been a few reports anchored to this report, we do not know of any place it was published in full. Unsurprisingly, this document looks more at long-term systemic change…
[Editors note: Also  see interview with Dr. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan here, along with one other from a leading rights activist in Jaffna. From the psycho-social trauma and destruction of the social fabric in…
Northern Muslims in Post Conflict Sri Lanka The entire Muslim community of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province – numbering approximately 75,000 persons, were expelled by the LTTE in a systematic and organized manner…
Introductory Remarks and Acknowledgements Before turning to the question the title of this “conversation” poses, I want to express my appreciation for the privilege it is to be living in Singapore, and…