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…
Photo courtesy of northeastern.edu Last month (May 2020) a Magistrate in Jaffna had withdrawn quarantine orders against the organizers of end of war commemorations, based…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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Photo via The Economist “I need justice but I am scared even to ask for the medical record. My mother did not have Corona, yet…
Image courtesy Lanka Views Ramzy Razik was arrested on April 9, 2020 at his home off Katugasota in Kandy by the CID. The next day,…
Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images from The Interpreter It is a modern morality tale about the dangers of misusing the military, of militarising…
Image via Financial Times The postponement of the General Elections 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic has led to different viewpoints being expressed on…
Featured image courtesy Reporters Sans Frontieres Today, 3rd May, is World Press Freedom Day. It is a good day to assess state of Freedom of Expression,…
Photo via The Telegraph The need to reconvene the Parliament was already a conversation in society, a new issue on the legality on the imposition…
Photo by AP via ABC News The threefold crisis that our country faces— public health, the constitutional, and political—is exacerbating day by day. In the latest…