Photo courtesy of www.channel4.com The governing party’s general election campaign is centred on obtaining a two-thirds majority in the next Parliament. It is expected that…
Image courtesy of srilankatwo.wordpress.com In July 1995 the St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Navaly, Jaffna, was filled with displaced Tamils seeking refuge and…
Photo courtesy of northeastern.edu Last month (May 2020) a Magistrate in Jaffna had withdrawn quarantine orders against the organizers of end of war commemorations, based…
Photo courtesy of myhero.com In Sri Lanka, the face of Bob Marley is a recurring visual motif- from tuk tuks, to street art, to reggae…
Photo courtesy of The New Indian Express When globalisation was the dominant concept for looking at the world, pandemics were discussed as a global security…
Featured image courtesy UNICEF At the dawn of the new normal resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka moved towards an online based education system,…
Sri Lanka And The US: A Pogrom And A Black Death At The Hands Of A White Policeman: Salutary Lessons
The Scene The morning of July the 25th 1983 is etched in my brain. I saw a group of people running or walking very fast…
Photo by Rasika Manobuddhi I am pleased to announce that Minoli De Soysa will from 1st July 2020 be the new Editor of Groundviews. She…
In an on-going series of podcasts with individuals in Sri Lanka, I caught up with economist Anushka Wijesinha to talk about the impact of the…
Updates over WhatsApp groups, pegged to content published on this site and a plethora of issues related to them, was started in 2016. Started off…
Photo courtesy Verite Research Finally, the date of the Parliamentary elections has been announced. There is hardly any doubt about which party would win the…
Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo via HRW “From now until the elections, we will not know when, and where, and how the fireball will fall…
Photo by AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, via Yahoo! Living in challenging times can be a blessing if changes during that time move one’s country towards a…
Photo courtesy Sri Lanka Brief A single death, triggers a worldwide conflict. In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian…
Sri Lankan police officers stand guard at a check point during a curfew imposed to stop spreading of a new virus in Colombo, Sri Lanka,…
Photo courtesy #unfairandlovely campaign featured on BBC Anti-blackness has no place in 2020, not even at your dining table. At dinner tonight, when that awkward…
A child watches from a bridge above the highway as Black Lives Matter protesters shut down Interstate 94 on July 9, 2016 in Saint Paul…
Photo via Le Mepris The creation of elitism, patronage and postcolonial governance Sri Lanka’s idle paradise had operated, since the end of British colonialism, within…
Image courtesy “We Live in Constant Fear”: Lack of Accountability for Police Abuse in Sri Lanka by Human Rights Watch. The murder of George Floyd…
Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images, taken off Middle East Institute In what must surely count as one of the most hilarious, unintentionally ironic…
Photo courtesy The Independent The distinguishing feature of Gotabaya Rajapaksa and indeed, at the same time the cause for concern with regard to him, is…
Image courtesy the Economist “11 years later: Back on the Frontlines, Fighting for You” announced an article by Gagani Weerakoon on Ceylon Today on the…
Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka via Getty Images President Rajapaksa dissolved the Parliament on 2nd March 2020– six months before the due date, amidst the growing…
Photograph courtesy ‘The Brother’s Grip‘, Global & Mail, by Ishara Kodikara, AFP May 19th 2020, marked the eleventh year of the end of the fighting…
Photo courtesy Foreign Policy Research Institute BERLIN – A paradigm shift is taking place in relations between the European Union and China. The COVID-19 crisis…
Mary Maudwyn Hermine de Silva-Wijeyeratne, née Abayawickreme, LRAM, ARCM, FTCL, BMus (05-07-1937 – 20-04-2020) My mother Hermine passed away in a London hospital on 20th April…
Photo courtesy News in Asia The COVID-19 crisis took hold in Sri Lanka at a time when Parliament stood dissolved ahead of a general election.…
The Catholic Church in the tiny village of Iranapalei in the Mullaitheevu district was lit up with 1000 lamps yesterday, 18th May. The thousand lamps…
Book Review – Phil Miller, Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who got away with War Crimes, (Pluto Press, 2020) Eleven years ago, in May 2009,…
Photo courtesy Modern War Institute, West Point The Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant shutdown of social and community life has meant that the political debate…