I am in London stuck in a 12 hour transit, catching up on some reading I’ve missed during the last couple of weeks. There’s a bunch of people I know in the city, but the immigration chaps won’t let me go out, because, I’m um, Sri Lankan. In any case, n…

July usually passes me by without too much notice, beyond the vague worry that there might be a Tiger attack on Colombo, and a few flashbacks to that weekend in 1983. But this time it’s been a bit different. I’ve found myself reliving that day a lo…

Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri and Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe both from the faculty of arts at the University of Colombo spoke at a Beyond Borders study circle in Colombo on how we interpret the construct called “history”. Following are some excerpts from their remarks.
Dr. Nirmal Dewasiri on the relationship between the past and the present :

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Beyond Borders kicked off the inaugural session of a series of  a study circle meetings on the ethnic conflict for young people who are interested in the issues related to the ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka. The Colombo study circle is part of a larger initiative by Beyond Borders which aims to strengthen youth voices […]

Well, at least that’s what this should amount to. The government has made it a requirement for ‘people of the north’ to get special permission from the police to go to any place in the ’south’.Here’s a Sunday Times report, Civilians in the no…