Dayan Jayatillake had an after-lunch chat recently with a couple of folks, where he moderated a panel discussion on the now defunct Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission. SLMM has apparently closed down their website also. Total “Pedurath akulang gedara yanawa“
Dayan was stern about the government’s position of “look, but don’t touch” position :
“Engagement, yes; permanent monitoring […]

Mahinda Samarasinghe made a breakthrough statement at the UN Human Rights Council on the 4th.
Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Mahinda Samarasinghe responding to the earlier statements made by a few countries on the situation in Sri Lanka strongly refuted the assertion that the situation has worsened.
He said “We regret one or two […]

Mahinda Samarasinghe made a breakthrough statement at the UN Human Rights Council on the 4th.
Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Mahinda Samarasinghe responding to the earlier statements made by a few countries on the situation in Sri Lanka strongly refuted the assertion that the situation has worsened.
He said “We regret one or two […]

I was at the Sri Lanka Press Institute the whole of last week, attending a workshop on advanced photo journalism conducted by Fojo. Since I’m a wannabe photographer, I was eagerly looking forward to this and the whole experience was worth it.
I’ve been into the arts of the lenses for just over two years now. […]

I’m generally cynical of people who work for children, or child related causes. This has been fostered by years of observing people who work for, or claim to work for children.
People love working on child related issues, mainly for the feel good factor. The feel good factor, is a result of the feel-bad factor used […]

My much loved ex-boss used to say that nobody learned from Bush as much as Mahinda did, which to this day holds true. Bush marketed the war in such a way that he got almost everything he wanted. The same is true for dearest Mahinda Mama, but in his case the perks of the war […]