Sri Lanka - Himal Southasian (Page 31)

Care Takers

Democratic decay in most countries in South Asia has suddenly made it fashionable once more to say some pretty (politically) incorrect things in public. Things like: maybe things were better

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997

Post-colonial orthodoxy

Ethnic Conflict and Security Crisis in Sri Lanka by S.S. Misra Kalinga Publishers, Delhi, 1995 176 pages

By Dawa Norbu

/ 1 Sep 1996

Constitutional Progress of Nations

Ideology and the Constitution: Essays on Constitutional Jurisprudence by Radhika Coomaraswamy International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, 1996 178 pages

By Mathew Starnes

/ 1 Sep 1996

CENSURING CENSORSHIP

Many years ago, when the boot was on another foot, Aththa (truth or pravda), the Sri Lanka Communist Party´s daily newspaper, railed at the press censorship imposed by the

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

Lyn de Alwis, Sri Lanka’s Mr Zoo

This Sri Lankan man is able to bring pleasure to millions with his knack for running zoos. He also saves wild elephants. "I've spent the best years

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Jul 1996

Sarong Revolution

The sarong is no longer in purdah in Sri Lanka. For Anglicised Sri Lankan men, who comprise the majority of the country´s professional, business, social and political elite, the

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Jun 1996

BACK TO THE DARK AGE

Cheap power was touted as the prime attraction of Sri Lanka´s brave adventure to liberalise its economy 20 years ago when the country became the first South Asian to

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996

Beginning of the end?

A war weary population has demonstrated a determination to stand up to LTTE President Chandrika Kumaratunga chose her words carefully when she told a Colombo May Day rally that Sri

By The Editors

/ 30 May 1996

Revolution to Devolution

Amidst all the chaos of political violence, Sri Lanka is engaged in fashioning a workable system of regional self-government which will interest the other South Asians. dev.o.lu.

By Neelan Tiruchelvam

/ 1 Apr 1996

Ploughshares into Swords

In the days following independence from the British, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) was truly an island of serendipity, deserving the name of Serendib that had been bestowed upon it by

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Mar 1996

NO CRYSTAL BALL FOR SRI LANKA

The refusal of the Australian and West Indies cricket teams to play World Cup matches in Colombo, ironically, was enough to shift international attention away from the event that had

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 1996