Interview with Justice C.G. Weeramantry »
www.groundviews.org17 hours ago
Justice C.G. Weeramantry was bestowed Sri Lankabhimanya, the highest National Honour of Sri Lanka in 2007. Justice Weeramantry also won the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 2006 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2007, considered alternative Nobel Prize. In this interview conducted a few months ago, Justice Weeramantry talks about the importance of peace education in [ ... ]
un secretary general ban ki-moon’s latest attempted interference in sri lanka »
llibertarian.blogspot.com22 hours ago
united nations secretory general ban ki moon is engaged in an effort to interfere in sri lanka, again.why?bc he thinks there should be 'accountability' for alleged human rights violations and 'war crimes', wants 'reconciliation'. etcproblem with his s [ ... ]
Should Sanath Jayasuriya be running for MP? »
ravana.wordpress.com2 days ago
For all his popularity with the general population and cricket fans around the world, many Sri Lanka Cricket insiders agree that Sanath Jayasuriya is an ass. He has been playing for far too long, and he refuses to go away. When he was dropped from the team in 2006, Mahinda Rajapaksa personally intervened to get [...]

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Indi’s Poem to Sita »
ravana.wordpress.com2 days ago
So, my son Indrajit has been hot on the trail of Rama for a month now in India, and writing about yours truly while he’s at it. I don’t get on the blogosphere much these days, what with my ten heads being kept fairly occupied with other pressing matters of cosmic proportions, like watching Mervin [...]

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Seeing it comin’: Reforming the Sri Lankan State »
www.groundviews.org3 days ago
“You never see it comin’ till it’s gone” – ‘Falling & Flyin’, Jeff Bridges in ‘Crazy Heart’ Seeing it comin’: Will the Tamils silently celebrate and the Sinhalese secretly curse the day that Prabhakaran died? With his secessionist fundamentalism and ghastly terrorism, he was the biggest obstacle to achievable autonomy for Tamils and the best [ ... ]
attack blogs, naked pics, fake comments, and indi padashow samarajiva’s hypocrisy and online thuggery »
llibertarian.blogspot.com3 days ago
as readers of sl blogs may have noticed a particular blog (named after the loser who did not marry jane austen) has taken to attacking me on a regular basis. even during last few weeks during which i was inactive. also note that up to now i have not ma [ ... ]
Death of a Green Activist: Tribute to Piyal Parakrama (1960 – 2010) »
www.groundviews.org4 days ago
Piyal Parakkrama on Sri Lanka on the 2048 TV show Piyal Parakrama’s smile was regular and genuine, but it could be also be a bit misleading. Those who engaged him found that there was a keen mind, passionate heart and a sharp (yet always courteous) tongue behind that disarming smile. Opponents dismissed him lightly at their [ ... ]
Hop on the Social Media Bandwagon »
phlayer.blogspot.com4 days ago
A friend spoke to me over the weekend about creating a social media (SM) application like
Facebook as a product for
Sri Lanka. I've been meaning to write about the trend towards creating SM apps and then hoping they'll boom like
Facebook. Unfortunately the harsh truth is that its not going to happen. By 2010
Facebook has managed to pass
MySpace,
Bebo,
Friendster, Orkut, hi5 and everyone else out there. Although the
facts are clear, there are plenty of entrepreneurs creating SM apps that are similar to
Facebook and trying [ ... ]
The Slide in Sri Lanka »
www.groundviews.org4 days ago
The 24th of February marked the first month anniversary of the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneligoda, the Lanka E-News journalist. Two special Police teams are said to be on the case. They have however, not come up with any information as to Ekneligoda’s whereabouts. Ekneligoda’s disappearance is yet another statistic of shame in the long list of [ ... ]
Interview with Arvind Kejriwal: No democracy without right to information »
www.groundviews.org5 days ago
Arvind Kejriwal is one of India’s foremost champions of the Right to Information. Awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006, Arvind has won a number of awards for his pioneering work in India. As noted on the Ashoka Foundation site, Arvind uses a 2001 law called the Right to Information Act (RTIA) to bring [ ... ]
It’s a Girl! and We Say Cheers on IWD »
chulie.wordpress.com5 days ago
Photographs©Chulie de Silva Stereotyping of women apparently begins they say when the doctor says it’s a girl. What my father heard when I was born was “It’s another girl!” He said Cheers and was genuinely happy to see the arrival of another girl. But we always didn’t have equal rights but we had plenty of opportunity [...]

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Interview with Manik de Silva, Editor of the Sunday Island »
www.groundviews.org6 days ago
Manik de Silva is the most senior and longest-serving Editor of an English newspaper in Sri Lanka. Presently the Editor of the Sunday Island, Manik was also a former Editor of the Daily News. In July 2009, he was elected as the President of the Editors Guild. I interviewed him in July 2009, just around two [ ... ]
The Return of Sarath Fonseka: An Enduring Headache? »
www.groundviews.org6 days ago
The sudden and allegedly suspicious death of former General Secretary of the UNP and Minister of Transport, Highways and Civil Aviation, Gamini Athukorala (in 2002) seemed to have marked the end of a critical phase in Ranil Wickremasinghe’s political career; a phase which spanned from the early 1990s to 2002. During this phase, Ranil saw [ ... ]
Tamil Democrazy All around: Tamil Eelam’s Finest Moments »
www.tamilnet.tv1 week ago
As our readership is well aware of there have been countless Tamil democratic ventures around the world to achieve Tamil Eelam. These Tamil only® supreme democratic efforts© all around the world are in no way caused by the dwindling war chest of our Tamil only sole representatives®, due to minor setbacks suffered at the hands of the very GENOCIDAL™ Sinhaloids, nor is it an after effect of our Desiya Thalaivar, King, Queen and the greatest Faggot of Tamil Eelam™ attaining Eelam on the Nandikandal lagoon [ ... ]
Rebuilding Sri Lanka »
www.groundviews.org1 week ago
A perceptive and sensitive Sri Lankan has noted; “It is reported that the people of the North, especially in the Jaffna district, have developed a feeling of dissatisfaction, disaffection and contempt towards the people of the South, who post the end of the war are now engaging in pilgrimage and sightseeing related visits to the North [ ... ]
Interview with Prof. Kumar David »
www.groundviews.org1 week ago
Prof. Kumar David, an electrical engineer by training, regular columnist in traditional print media and a frequent commentator on Groundviews, talks about what’s left of leftist politics in Sri Lanka, the end of war and its impact on Tamil diaspora juxtaposed against th autocratic and essentially one-party rule in Sri Lanka. I also asked him about [ ... ]
The Kandyan Convention..195 years on… »
mockmenot.blogspot.com1 week ago
"its a sunny and warm fine day"...said John D'Oyly in his Diary ... describing 2nd March , 1815... After the capture of King Sri Wicrama Raja Singha by the British with the collusion of few Kandyan Chieftains,a Convention was pro [ ... ]
THE DEEPEST DIVISION IN SRI LANKA »
www.groundviews.org1 week ago
I have always argued that the deepest division in Sri Lanka is not the so-called ethnic divide but the split between supporters of democracy and supporters of totalitarianism, and the presidential elections proved this point. Bitter arguments within the Sinhalese community generated by the candidacy of Sarath Fonseka completely demolished the manufactured image of a [ ... ]
Tamil Mastermind GENOCIDED™ on Quiz Show »
www.tamilnet.tv1 week ago
TamilNet is shocked and deeply concerned to report that super smart kazthudi Kajen Thuraaisingham- (codename “Master Mind”) was forced into humiliation and intelligence GENOCIDE™ on the popular BBC program also called “Master Mind” [ ... ]
The Tradition of Ivory Carving, with special reference to Sri Lanka »
chulie.wordpress.com1 week ago
Ivory Carvings executed by Sri Lankan craftsmen adorn many a foreign collection. In the historic period elephants were not killed for ivory, but came from private collections. Exquisite ivory carvings of statues, combs, reliquaries, etc were executed using diyatharippu lenses. There is one paramparika diyatharippu ( traditional) carver left. Soon there will be none

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Living Secular in the ‘Sinhala Buddhist Republic’ of Sri Lanka »
www.groundviews.org1 week ago
Two years ago, in a moment of panic, I rushed my young daughter to Colombo’s only children’s hospital. To be honest, I don’t normally turn to our overcrowded government hospitals for healthcare. But a doctor friend had recommended the Lady Ridgeway Hospital as the best place for administering the anti-rabies vaccine. As with all government hospitals, [ ... ]
White People Attend Tamil Convention :Toilet Cleaners Around the world Celebrate in Joy »
www.tamilnet.tv2 weeks ago
With undisputable GENOCIDE™ taking place in Sri Lanka, where millions of Tamil Eelam people are being systematically fed, watered and given an education, TamilNet is proud to report that our superior colonial white masters are lining up to show solidarity with the toilet cleaning caste of the western world [ ... ]
Ashok Ferrey’s Serendipity Reviewed »
vindicated13.wordpress.com2 weeks ago
I am a great fan of the man and I genuinely do think he is positively hilarious. My love affair with South Asian fiction was inspired by Ferrey’s witticisms and clever insight into the tangle of Sri Lankan lives in Colpetty People and The Good Little Ceylonese Girl (both of which I highly recommend). This is [...]

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Interview with Ameena Hussein »
www.groundviews.org2 weeks ago
Ameena Hussein is one of Sri Lanka’s best known English authors. She is also one half of the Perera Hussein Publishing House, that since 2003 has published some of the best new English writing in the country. The Moon in the Water, Ameena’s first novel, was long-listed for the first Man Asian Literary Award in [ ... ]
Do candidates need armed security to ask for people’s votes? »
www.groundviews.org2 weeks ago
I have read and heard of W. Dahanayake travelling to Colombo from Galle in the morning “Ruhunu Kumari” train with all those other ordinary passengers, getting off at the Kollupitiya station to go to his ministry in Union Place, when he was Co-operative Minister in the J.R. Jayawardne government. That was in early 1980’s. There were [ ... ]
Anoma Fonseka Wins This Year’s Lt-Colonel Thavam Award »
www.tamilnet.tv2 weeks ago
TamilNet is proud to announce that Anoma Fonseka, the stylish First Lady of Facebook and wife of currently incarcerated Facebook President of Sri Lanka, Sarath Fonseka, is this year’s winner of the prestigious Thavam best performer of Eelam and Eelam Excellence award [ ... ]
PRABAKARAN MUST BE LAUGHING »
www.groundviews.org2 weeks ago
Mahinda Rajapaksa seems to be turning into his one-time enemies. During the reign of terror (bheeshanaya) in the late 1980s, which was started by J.R.Jayawardene and continued by R.Premadasa, around 60,000 Sinhalese were tortured, disappeared and killed by the state. At that time, Rajapaksa collected evidence of these crimes and took them to the international [ ... ]
…for The Missing »
www.groundviews.org2 weeks ago
A solitary lamp perched on a desk top lights a room. A man scribbles feverishly on paper, hunched over the light as if he’s jealously guarding what little he has. His desk is cluttered with cartoons and drawings – some of a President, others of two small children. He holds down his paper with one [ ... ]
Parliamentary Elections 2010: Living through a kleptocracy and not wanting an alternative »
www.groundviews.org2 weeks ago
Are we honestly serious in wanting democracy, our rights and human development, to live in Sri Lanka ? If we are, how are we seeing to it, that we do really enjoy such a luxury in this beleaguered nation ? All what had been happening and allowed to happen, don’t in any way even hint that [ ... ]
Let’s kill some endemic fish using Poison, will you? »
unprotectedthoughts.com2 weeks ago
I bump in to this tourism website promoting so call village life in Sri Lanka and I could not believe my eyes. These guys are fishing endemic fishes using poison and calling that having a wonderful day. (I don’t know where it is, I suspect somewhere [ ... ]
The Week’s Been Long »
vindicated13.wordpress.com2 weeks ago
The days seem trapped within the sand of an hourglass these days. As I become aware every single day of how little time I have left in this place that is now nearly home. It has gotten to the point of lasts, where Bronte and I begin checking things off a crumpled list. Small, insignificant [...]

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The Buddha Sasana: Sri Lanka’s biggest NGO? »
www.groundviews.org3 weeks ago
Sometimes words are used so often and so uncritically that they not only lose communicative value but those who utter them and those who hear them no longer know what they mean. We really don’t know what ‘democracy’ means, do we? Decency, anyone? How about justice? Love? There are thousands of such words and terms [ ... ]
Bottom Dwelling Scum Suckers and Catfish »
www.groundviews.org3 weeks ago
There is a joke that has been floating for a while with regard to the value added by lawyers to our daily existence. It asks the question whether you know the difference between a lawyer and a catfish. If you are interested, the answer is; one is a fish and the other is a bottom dwelling scum [ ... ]
Colombian Women Protest In Support Of Facebook President of Sri Lanka »
www.tamilnet.tv3 weeks ago
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 15:00 GMT] Scores of totally non-jobless Colombian ladies launched a protest on the pavement just outside their homes in Cinnamon Gardens in support of the 100% undeserved treatment that is being meted out to New Sun Goat Sarath Fonseka. These lovely damsels were considerate enough to take time off [ ... ]
Sita Sings the Blues »
ravana.wordpress.com3 weeks ago
Nearly two years ago, I wrote a post about Nina Paley, the woman who, at the time, was creating an animated feature-length Ramayana story all by herself. It’s ready now and it is being distributed free of charge on a creative commons license. You can watch the entire film below. It looks superb. I urge you [...]

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The ‘Sinhala-Nationalist’s Burden’ »
www.groundviews.org3 weeks ago
Mr. Gomin Dayasiri’s article, titled ‘Tamil Grievances – Untouched & Unattended’ (Daily Mirror, 16 February 2010) reveals the Sinhala nationalist perspective concerning the kind of solution necessary for the resolution of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. It is an important piece, written by a respected senior lawyer, a nationalist. The author points to some [ ... ]
Exceptional responses to questions from media »
www.groundviews.org3 weeks ago
Groundviews was able to obtain an audio recording of an exchange between Swiss journalist Karin Wenger and a well-known, senior journalist now part of the Presidential Media Unit (PMU). Karin’s visa and media accreditation to cover the Sri Lankan presidential election was revoked after she asked several questions from government representatives at an official press [ ... ]
UNP’s Aim in General Election is to Avoid UPFA taking One Third Majority. – Wajira Abewardane »
landlikenoother.blogspot.com3 weeks ago
According to him, he has already admitted that UNP cannot win this election. I'm watching the 360 Degrees, political talk show on TV Derana now, and few minutes ago he said that UNP decided to contest alone in this election, to avoid UPFA getting the b [ ... ]
SARATH FONSEKA AFFAIR: POLITICAL CANNIBALISM MUST CEASE IN SRI LANKA! »
www.groundviews.org3 weeks ago
“All my life I have been a gentleman to my adversaries, even in war situations surrounded by death. I’ve never humiliated, offended nor wreaked revenge on a single prisoner, not even in the case of the Bay of Pigs while my comrades lay mortally wounded or dead around me…One must be honourable.” - Fidel Castro ( [ ... ]
Rajan Anna Subjected To RENDITION GENOCIDE™ »
www.tamilnet.tv4 weeks ago
[TamilNet, Friday, 12 February 2010, 14:40 GMT] Lost in the frenzy of current political events in Sri Lanka, an under-reported story is that Rajan anna was most brutally abducted and RENDITION GENOCIDED™ to Sri Langa by beastly Sinhaloid intelligence agents. The abduction took place in late January when demonic Sinhaloid yakkas captured Rajan anna from an [ ... ]
Sri Lanka Be Warned! JVP Trying to Take Us Back to 88/89 »
landlikenoother.blogspot.com4 weeks ago
Just few days before the presidential election I warned about the bad consequences of a Sarath Fonseka win in that election, and pledged my readers to spread that message as much as possible. I received an overwhelming response to that post, to the ext [ ... ]
Going beyond Sarath Fonseka in achieving democracy for people »
www.groundviews.org4 weeks ago
A visibly shaken wife in tears, Anoma Fonseka told the media “this is the gift my husband got for finishing a 30 year war”. Gen Sarath Fonseka was arrested, or detained, or taken into custody or may have been even abducted by a military group late in the evening on Monday from his office, in [ ... ]