The failure of the Tamil ‘liberation’ movement is the failure to understand how the Tamil problem should be reviewed and tackled in today’s context. To me, the first issue is to understand if the Tamils consider their minority status a de facto reality. If they do,...

Is Sri Lankan domestic initiatives for war time accountability and reconciliation a non starter? Reminiscing on this issue of culpability begs the question - Is the query of accountability and reconciliation a non issue among Sri Lankan leaders?  Governments come and...

Ever since discussion around the withdrawal of the 19th amendment and its anticipated replacement with the 20th amendment reached the public arena there has been a cacophony of voices supporting the need for a new amendment. The President has been returned on the...

This is written as a tribute to my friend Dr. Upen de Zylva who passed away a few days ago and who throughout his life had an abiding interest in nature - in all things related to flora and fauna. He was greatly disturbed by the invasive ness of humans into the...

BackgroundSri Lankan Tamils have organized themselves as a cohesive unit in opposition to the majoritarian Sinhala dominated governments. At the time of the independence and during the days of the State Council Tamils remained an integral part of the nation state. In...

You have neither seen nor heard, is it not? Sometimes the fear is that large numbers of the people are blind and deaf; blind and deaf by intent that they neither see nor hear or do so selectively. That will have to be another study, another investigation. But for now...