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AHRC tells the Canada-based Sri Lankan intellectual to stop distribution of false and defamatory material and a death list
Written on 5 Jan, 2011 at 4:43 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
by Wong Kai Shing
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Governance, Rights and Reconciliation: The National Anthem and Other Disturbing News from Sri Lanka
Written on 22 Dec, 2010 at 7:40 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Original photo from Business Today
The headline story of the Sunday Times of 12 December 2010 was deeply disturbing. According to it the Cabinet has made a decision that henceforth the national anthem will only be sung in Sinhala. Subsequent reports confirmed that the issue was discussed in cabinet but that no final decision had been taken. In the...
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National Anthem and National Identity
Written on 17 Dec, 2010 at 22:08 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
by Shanie
"A nation needs identities that are broad, inclusive and that support its essential requirements of democracy, secularity, equality, rights to the institutions of welfare and to social justice."
(December 18, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) That was from the concluding remarks of Professor Romila Thapar when she delivered this year’s Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture on ‘Of...
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Greatest victory to Sri Lankans
Written on 17 Dec, 2010 at 10:38 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Salute to my beloved Sinhala Brothers and Sisters
by Lenin Benedict-Toronto
(December 17, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) As the President Mahinda Rajapakse discussed in the latest cabinet meeting about scraping of the National Anthem sang in Tamil in the North and East by Tamils living in the area for decades, just trying to...
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Have national anthem in both Sinhala and Tamil languages
Written on 14 Dec, 2010 at 11:16 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Statement issued by the The National Peace Council
(December 14, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) There are reports that the government has decided that the national anthem would be sung only in Sinhala at all official and state functions although the Constitution of Sri Lanka states that both Sinhala and Tamil are official languages. It is also reported that a government directive to use only the Sinhala version will soon be sent out which...
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On Anthems and the State of the Union
Written on 13 Dec, 2010 at 20:35 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
I have been stirred and moved even to tears by both the Tamil and Sinhala versions of the Ceylon, now Sri Lanka,anthem. I think I owe this emotional tie to birth on the island, to school on the island, to my first toffees and cricket matches on the island. I wonder now how a new boy born today in this same, yet- not- the same, Sri Lanka will feel, denied the comfort of hearing his mother tongue...
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Sri Lanka’s image builders
Written on 21 Nov, 2010 at 14:44 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Broadly speaking, one can identify five distinct constituencies that shape Sri Lanka’s image abroad: First Western Governments - which I define from a politico-cultural standpoint, as countries that are geographically located in North America, Western Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand, second, Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) - these include both International NGOs, as well as ......
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Parallel Governments ( Part Two )
Written on 26 Oct, 2010 at 23:34 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
: Living between terror and counter terror in northern Lanka (1982-2009)
Hundreds of enforced disappearances committed since 2006 have already placed Sri Lanka among the countries with the highest number of new cases in the world. The victims are primarily young ethnic Tamil men who ‘disappear’ – often after being picked up by government security...
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Parallel Governments: Living between terror and counter terror in northern Lanka (1982-2009)
Written on 26 Oct, 2010 at 7:12 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Authors note: Article derived from paper first presented at the conference, Globalizing Religions and Cultures in the Asia Pacific, University of Adelaide, 1–5 December 2008 and developed version published in Journal of Asian and African Studies. Download this paper as a PDF here.
Introduction
It was Thomas Hobbes (1651) who first pointed out that behind the veneer of states is the spectre of violence and threat of terror that is used to control and rule the subject...
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Private University Project in Sri Lanka
Written on 19 Oct, 2010 at 17:21 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
(October, Melbourne . Sri Lanka Guardian) This has been an ‘on again off again’ topic in Sri Lanka for the last 30 years or so and now it seems to be ‘on again’ again for some time! particularly after Mr S.B. Dissanayake became the new higher education minister in June 2010. Although many commentators of...
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