Borella Junction 24.25 July 1983 —Pix by Chandragupta Amarasinghe –here juxtaposed with the Pix deployed by GV which, in my reading, may not be from the July pogrom but from other moments of violence
COLOMBO, PEACE AND CONFLICT, POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
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 away from the environs of Colombo. On…
GROUNDVIEWS on 06/18/2020
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 Covid-19 pandemic on Sri Lanka as well…
SANJANA HATTOTUWA on 06/15/2020
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 as groups where all subscribers could exchange…
SANJANA HATTOTUWA on 06/15/2020
COLOMBO, ELECTIONS, PEACE AND CONFLICT, POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE, POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
Authoritarianism is No Remedy to the Country’s Wounded Democracy
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 election. The only doubt is which ideology…
DR.PRADEEP PEIRIS SAKINA MOINUDEEN AND M.KRISHNAMOORTHY on 06/14/2020
Politicising Archaeology, Militarising Virtue, Gaslighting the Electorate
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 on us, and what the nature of…
TISARANEE GUNASEKARA on 06/14/2020
The Spectre of an Authoritarian Regime Based on a Putschist Model
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 fair and progressive era. Otherwise its society…
LIONEL BOPAGE on 06/14/2020
Black Lives Matter: Sri Lankan Style
A single death, triggers a worldwide conflict. In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire was assassinated in Serbia and his…
HARIM PEIRIS on 06/13/2020
In Defence of Dissent: Before, During and After COVID-19
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, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Via The Diplomat…
SHALOMI DANIEL AND ERMIZA TEGAL on 06/12/2020
Confronting Sri Lanka’s ingrained Anti-Blackness
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 silence creeps up, when those pregnant looks…
SHAKUNTALA FERNANDOPULLE on 06/10/2020
Actually, Anti-Blackness Has Everything To Do With Us
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 to protest the police murder of Philando…
SHENALI PILAPITIYA on 06/09/2020
Hijacking a Third World State: Post-colonial governance, elitism and international law. The case of Sri Lanka.
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 the British institutional system and legal measures….
- THAMIL VENTHAN ANANTHAVINAYAGANon06/09/2020
PODCAST: Conversation with Ambika Satkunanathan on police brutality in Sri Lanka
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 in the United States has in the…
SANJANA HATTOTUWA on 06/08/2020
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F*** You, Mr. President
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 and terrifying proclamations ever uttered by a…
PROF. QADRI ISMAIL on 06/06/2020
EMAIL COMMENT from A LEFTIST FRIEND, 28 June 2020: “Wunderbar!
It is AMAZING to see people who defended the Yahapalana regime, when it delayed local government elections, used unparliamentary methods to introduce unconstitutional legislation governing the Provincial Council elections, which it then used as a pretext to delay the latter, and went to extreme lengths to prevent the dissolution of parliament to hold general elections, talking about Gotabaya’s “authoritarianism”!”
Wow! Is this the calibre of English that a respectable American University expects from its Professor of English? How charming! Would anyone who reads the Quran even care to read beyond such blasphemous introductions? Groundviews or underground moans?