If and when peace comes to Sri Lanka, the new structures of political relations must be designed to preserve and advance the gains made by women in the last two decades.
For an institution that seeks to introduce a rule-based regime of global trade, ostensibly through civilised consensus between member states, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) provokes a fair degree
After much posturing and threat issuing, the most popularly opposed war in human history is now underway. To the chagrin of its American and British propagators, it appears that the
It has been a consistent feature of the Sri Lankan peace process that important initiatives by the LTTE are downplayed and trivialised by sections of Sinhala nationalist opinion, which could
After years of refusing to become tied to the strings attached to IMF monies, Sri Lanka has agreed to a massive new loan. But will it be enough to lift the economy from its current morass?
The interaction of English and the languages of Southasia is often lamented for having led to a deterioration of the latter. But focusing on this alone misses out on what has been accomplished through this linguistic collision.
Five thousand years ago, nomadic people settled in the Indus basin and developed one of the earliest Bronze Age civilisations on Earth, centred on the cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro.
In Toronto's east end, Scarborough, what some call the 'real capital of Eelam', a few expatriate Sri Lankan Tamils continue to attach LTTE flags to their
When the back-pull of bourgeois charm
Kept from your ears the soaring sound
of the people singing.
You are still prisoner under the claws
of a fierce eagle.
– Bangla
Mid-summer afternoons in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, feel like someone has hosed the air with hot steam. Standing outside the roof of a British Army patrol
