Sri Lanka - Himal Southasian (Page 26)

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

Third degree of separation

One day in June, the Toronto Globe and Mail carried a news photograph showing a man, naked to the waist, surrounded by police officers. The man´s hands are handcuffed

By Amitava Kumar

/ 1 Aug 2000

The Tiger’s trap

In the last 15 years of the Tamil-Sinhala conflict, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been prisoners of their militarised, brutalised and violence-driven pursuit for a separate

By Shastri Ramachandran

/ 1 Jun 2000

War and pain

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga´s "war for peace" has gone awry in recent weeks. Stark reality dawned on Colombo only after the 23 April fall of the Elephant

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Long view from new Delhi

However earnest her intention to end the 17-year-old ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga´s strategy of "war for peace" has backfired. Armed with

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Jun 2000

Tamil Nadu. Taamil Eelam and Greater Eelam

South Asian´s longest war in Sri Lanka escalated over the course of May to a point where the military balance in the island´s north has shifted dramatically in

By DBS Jeyaraj

/ 1 Jun 2000

Sri Lanka’s Petition

The Dynamics among the countries of South Asia has changed dramatically with Sri Lanka´s open and unabashed call for New Delhi´s help for military and, failing that, humanitarian

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Seed Dispersal Patterns of the Dipterocarps of Sri Lanka

Short fiction SEED DISPERSAL Patterns of the Dipterocarps of SriLanka—this is the title of my research proposal. A fruit with-two wings—that's-what the word means—

By Neil Fernandopulle

/ 1 May 2000