Hotel Nippon: An icon of Colombo
Originally from Ragama, Chandrika Serasinghe believes it was her destiny to end up working at the Nippon Hotel – a place whose unusual façade always had a pull on her whenever she…
Media and Communications
Sri Lanka’s and South Asia’s first citizen journalism iPhone app
app works on the iPod Touch, iPad and is optimised for the iPhone 4’s Retina display. “This inovative app enables those, particularly in the diaspora, to more easily access updated content published…
Maghreb: Mythicising Model, Misapplying Mode
Photo courtesy Vikalpa The conversation I had on Lankan trajectories and ‘declinist’ discourses in a Paris cafe on a Sunday with my friend and former colleague, Prof. Nira Wickramasingha, now holding the…
A MATTER OF DECENCY: MATCH-FIXING ALLEGATIONS AND THE STATE MEDIA
For anyone familiar with ITN’s programme, the storm of controversy it raised this week with a thinly veiled allegation of match fixing against Mahela Jayawardene and Thilan Samaraweera in the World Cup…
Living in the Global Glass House: An Open Letter to Sir Arthur C Clarke
Colombo, Sri Lanka: 16 December 2010 Dear Sir Arthur, I write this on your 93rd birth anniversary. Just over a thousand days have passed since you departed. Like all true rationalists, you…
Expecting too much from your expectations of others?
I had an “aha“ moment this morning about my own patterns of habits when I was reflecting on an incident when I felt let down by someone close to me. I have…
Bell Pottinger and official communiqués of the Sri Lankan government
Statement issued by Mr Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka For security reasons the speech by His Excellency President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka at the Oxford Union, the home…
Wikileaks on Sri Lanka: A breakdown and implications
Updated 2.15pm, 30th November with added analysis of tags “The first is that, in Sri Lanka, it would never be possible for any one to play “Julian Assange” and dare face an…
