By Dr. Nirmala Chandrahasan Reading through some of the articles that have appeared recently, following upon Mr Sampanthan’s Presidential address at the ITAK Convention, it appears to me that there is a big trust deficit. Interpretations are being put on words, and inferences drawn which are not justified by the plain meaning of, or the [...]
Archive of entries posted on 22nd June 2012
The tallest man in Sri Lanka is an Ex-LTTE Combatant
By Camelia Nathaniel Gunasingham Kasendran is considered the tallest man in the country. Standing at a staggering 7 ft 3 inch, he is currently part of the government rehabilitation programme for ex-LTTE combatants at the Rehabilitation Centre in Kandakadu, in the Polonnaruwa District. A rather shy and soft spoken man, Kasendran shuns public functions, which [...]
Dismissal of Lalith Allahakkoon by ‘Ceylon Today’ is worrying-RSF
(Text of statement issued by Reporters without Borders/Reporters sans Frontieres) Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the reasons that led the management of the newspaper Ceylon Today to force its editor in chief Lalith Allahakkoon to resign on 13 June. The journalist, who received no letter of dismissal, arrived at his office on 16 June [...]
Achieving stability through reconciliation in divided or post-conflict societies
By Cillian McGrattan The idea that divided or post-conflict societies can achieve stability through reconciliation represents something of a paradigm shift in peace-building theory and practice. Arguably, thanks to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ideas that the past should be represented as something remote (as in post-war, post-Nuremburg Germany) or unarticulated (as in [...]
Mervyn De Silva: Reminiscences about a Journalist Colossus
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj “And as I read more and more, and it was not all verse, by any means, my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing [...]
