The President has proposed to make changes to the constitution via an urgent bill.  The changes known as the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, seek to remove the two term limit on being elected to the office of the President and the Constitutional Council under the 17th Amendment.  As required under the Constitution, the President [ ... ]

Groundviews exclusively carried Jayantha Dhanapala’s response to erroneous and selective media reports of his submission to LLRC a few days ago, in which he promised an authoritative transcript of his presentation and of the question and answer session from the LLRC. A covering note to the media from Mr. Dhanapala and the transcripts were sent [ ... ]

Internal Armed Conflicts, Humanitarian Laws and the Curious Transformation of Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala by Kalana Senaratne on Groundviews flagged a number of pertinent questioning arising from the media reportage of Jayantha Dhanapala’s submission to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recently. On our Facebook page as well as through numerous emails sent to the [ ... ]

Photo courtesy Global Zero Numerous reports suggest that Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala had some interesting things to say when he appeared before the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recently; about aspects relating to the interference of certain States in the internal affairs of other States; about the R2P concept; about the Sri Lankan Armed Forces [ ... ]

On our way to the first scheduled hearing of Northern Muslims who were expelled by the LTTE in 1990, we spotted a group of men working hard out in the open, under the midday sun, and we stopped to have a conversation with them. Eight days earlier they had made their way from Puttalam to [ ... ]

Interview III – Tissa Jayathilaka from Young Asia Television on Vimeo. In this interview, Tissa Jayatilaka speaks about the Ceylon of his childhood and the experience of being part of the last batch of students enrolled at the University of Ceylon. Tissa also talks about the tumultuous period during the 1970s, the roots of the [ ... ]

Colombo is nice, if you know where to look. There are people doing interesting things with their time and sharing it with their friends. There are musicians who have long hair, artists wh0 have nice hands, and writers who are good with words but little else. Colombo is exciting if you don’t want your excitement [ ... ]

The late Ray Wijewardene in conversation with Nalaka Gunawardene Sri Lanka 2048 panel on Living with Climate Change – Ray Wijewardene is second from right [Authors note: Dr Philip Revatha (Ray) Wijewardene, who passed away on August 18 aged 86, spent a lifetime being unpigeonholeable – which won him many admirers and a few detractors. [ ... ]

Image courtesy Transcurrents Introduction The current crisis in the UNP has thrown its grassroots supporters into a sense of hopelessness and disappointment about the future of the party. No political party can afford to let itself disintegrate and disappear from the political stage. If the present crisis is not resolved, it leaves behind a power [ ... ]

I have being writing about how to make money online in Sri Lanka for quite a while now and my preferred method has being creating niche websites and adding affiliate links and adding Adsense in those blogs. But everyone doesn't like blogging, even I don't like the necessary but tedious tasks like upgrading software, managing [ ... ]

We last featured Rohan Edrisinha in February, just after the Presidential election on 26th January. Rohan, who lectures at the Law Faculty, University of Colombo, at the time flagged serious concerns over the implementation of the 13th and 17th Amendments, as well as the tragic irrelevance of the APRC in the process of constitutional reform. [ ... ]

I wrote this letter to the Editor of DM Online regarding a shocking video-documentary that was posted there on 7 August. This letter was written with the support of many others who were equally horrified by the video. 11 August 2010 Dear Mr. Easwaran Rutnam, I am writing to you regarding a video posted on Daily Mirror Online [ ... ]

In June 2010 the Minister for Resettlement, Milroy Fernando stated that there were 60,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka and that the Government would resettle them by August 2010. With some 30,000 IDPs remaining in Menik Farm at the end of July it would not be impossible for the Government to close the [ ... ]

What is Freelance work ? In one of my previous posts I wrote about free data entry jobs in Sri Lanka. In that post I mentioned that freelancers have a good chance of making money online. When it comes to Internet jobs in Sri Lanka freelance work is something that has a quick return for your [ ... ]

Othello, which was staged by the old Royalists, with the help of the Royal College Union ran to three full houses. Everyone’s misgivings about whether Colombo was ready, or in fact whether Colombo had moved on from, full length Shakespearean productions were quickly put to rest. I work with an experimental fringe theatre Company, which [ ... ]