Buddhism, Conflict and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka
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The Third Deadly Event of the First Independence Day -Part II
It is by looking back that one can detect how coming events had cast their shadows across the political landscape. In the previous article I showed how the two major events that were staged on...
Three events that shook first Independence Day – February 4, 1948
Three separate political events that gathered momentum and ran in three different directions to dominate the political landscape in the post-independent era took place simultaneously on February 4, 1948 — the first Independence Day...
Forty empty years of Ranil’s politics
In a drama never seen in the Westminster tradition, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had brazenly escorted his closest partner in cut-throat politics, Ravi Karunanayake, to the front benches of the House on the day...
The clash of two histories in one nation
The two critical streams of thought that flowed down the 20th century and bloodied the political landscape came from the North. These two streams swept aside all other Left-wing currents which were struggling to...
When Prof. Laksiri Fernando came marching in
I am impressed by Prof. Laksiri Fernando’s letter to the Governor of Jaffna highlighting the failure of his administration to issue summons in Tamil to a Tamil journalist of Jaffna. This journalist has a...
The last King of Jaffna was a Sinhala-Buddhist
By H. L. D. Mahindapala Part of the crisis we are facing today was caused by either deliberately hiding the realities of history, or by political activists distorting it to suit expedient politics and...
