Sri Lanka - Himal Southasian (Page 25)

SANITY STAKES ITS CLAIM

We hadn't seen the leader of the Tamil Tigers, Prabhakaran, since 1989 when we watched him at a Jaffna football field addressing a large crowd euphoric about impending

By Kunda Dixit

/ 1 Mar 2002

PEACE AFTER ELECTIONS?

The installation of a new government in Sri Lanka after a bruising general election last month offers a measure of hope to a war weary nation. The election pitted the

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Jan 2002

SAD COUNTRY

Beautiful but tragic places make for good poetry. This is Ondaatje country in Colombo's Welawatte neighbourhood, where a small river meets the sea, where Pablo Neruda stayed for

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2001

PREPARING AGAINST LOCALISED BREAKDOWN

The extension of the month long ceasefires by the LTTE and the Colombo government was expected, and there was no reason for it to be other-wise. So far, the

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Feb 2001

Meeting Prabhakaran

Will the combined efforts of the good Samaritans of the Western world to bring the Sri Lanka government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), locked in a civil

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Dec 2000

Opening old wounds

A Decade of Confrontation: Sri Lanka and India in the 1980s by John Gooneratne Stamford Lake Publication Sri Lanka, 2000 Sri Lanka's side of the story on the

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Nov 2000

AUCTION HOUSE

Sri Lanka's just concluded general election has proved, if any proof was necessary, that as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew once told then president J.R. Jayewardene,

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Nov 2000

Wishing for a Hung Parliament

Can a hung Parliament that is widely predicted in the run-up to Sri Lanka's 10 October general elections, be the troubled country's great opportunity to

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Oct 2000

Bye Bye Mrs. B

Like the Nehrus in India, ruling Sri Lanka has been the family business of the Bandaranaikes. It was curtains for Sri Lanka´s mother-daughter political act when Sirima Bandaranaike

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Sep 2000

Multilateral is better than bilateral

There is a clear danger of alienating the spirit of consensus on which the success of a larger South Asian free trade area will depend. It is no surprise that

By Dushni Weerakoon

/ 1 Sep 2000

SINHALA TIGERS

Soon after the government withdrew its draft constitution from Parliament on 8 August, the gaunt face of Hedigalle Vimalasara Thero appeared in a rash of posters. He staged a fast-

By Brian Jeganathan

/ 1 Sep 2000

IF INDIA CAN’T, PAKISTAN MIGHT

The outcome of this one will be worth watching. Will Pakistan come to the Sri Lankan government´s aid where India hesitates to tread? That might well happen given that

By Adnan Rehmat

/ 1 Sep 2000