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Northern Provincial Council: Prudence prevails for now
Finally, a pragmatic perception, however episodic, of reality- and a prudent policy move results. With President Rajapaksa’s decision to
announce the holding of the election to the Northern Provincial Council after almost a quarter of a century (taken together with the re-arrest of the suspects in the murder of the Trinco 5), Sri Lanka seems about […]
Sinhala nationalists are betting against the White House and the Rashtrapathi Bhavan
As the Sinhalese and Tamils, or more precisely the Sinhala and Tamil nationalists, will eventually learn, there were rather good reasons that the Temple at Delphi bore the inscription ‘Nothing in Excess’, while the Buddha urged a Middle Path and Aristotle, the Golden Mean.
Pincer move
Less than six months before the Commonwealth summit, the Government is […]
Sri Lanka and UNP, TNA and a possible CBK comeback
New Constitution
The proposals for a new Constitution presented by the main Opposition party could have been much better, but as they stand they constitute a welcome and useful intervention in the political discussion. What is most positive is the stand the UNP has taken on the single most important political problem facing Sri Lanka, […]
JHU Bill to abolish 13th amendment will legitimise secessionism
Fate of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia was a sister country of Sri Lanka; a fellow founder of the Non Aligned Movement in that country’s capital Belgrade in 1961.
Yugoslavia no longer exists. The breakup of that country resulted from a chain reaction that commenced with the dramatic change of the Yugoslav Constitution promulgated by the sagacious socialist Marshal Tito […]
Devolution, Sri Lanka’s defence and security
G.L Peiris and the unit of devolution
Prof G.H. Peiris in his latest response (‘The Case against the Thirteenth Amendment’, The Island Midweek Review, May 22-23, 2013) to my article in The Island of 15th May 2013, argues that the distribution of ethnicity renders the district rather than the province the more suitable unit of devolution […]
How to make miracles happen
CandleAid
I didn’t need a map to get there. Elmo had helpfully sent a Google Earth graphic together with the invitation. The location was St Sebastian’s College, Moratuwa, just off the road down which my maternal grandparents had lived. Captain Elmo Jayawardena, aviator, master mentor of pilots, award winning writer, is Moratuwa’s Hemingway or more accurately, […]
The Azath Salley Saga: Amplifying a squeak
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” - ‘The Second Coming’, WB Yeats (1919)
The Asath Sally saga
When Sri Lanka was nominated as host of the Non Aligned Conference and chair of the Non Aligned Movement under Madam Bandaranaike there wasn’t a single dissenting voice within that movement or […]
The Azad Sally arrest and the radicalisation of Sri Lanka
If Azad Salley is a terrorist in the making, a terrorist who has to be pre-empted by recourse to detention under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, or a promoter of fanatical, fundamentalist ethno-religious hatred, he comes with the strangest of profiles.
Far from being born into and raised in anything like a backward, fundamentalist, religiously fanatical […]
Sri Lanka: Racism, religious fanaticism and the Bodu Bala Sena
Taking on Sinhala racists
I wasn’t at the vigil because I don’t do vigils and if I were to make an exception it would be for an anti-BBS/SR demonstration spearheaded by
the Left (in our case that would be the JVP and FSP), as are most anti-racist demonstrations all over the world. That is in fact the […]
Dayan sends loaded message to Sri Lankan bureaucrats and politicians in farewell speech
“This event is the commencement of my process of transition. I have begun my farewell with
this gathering of friends from the Sri Lankan community in Paris because my wife Sanja and I
shall be leaving France, somewhere early in the New Year in January. My two year term has come to an end or will come […]
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JHU Bill to abolish 13th amendment will legitimise secessionism
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