Archive for the ‘Opinions’ Category

From racist sentiments to power group mentalities to ethics to corruption, elected covers it all. The latest Beyond Borders Forum Theater production is finally here . ‘Elected’, revolves around a student body election and its main theme is racism. The story follows the campaigns of the two candidates, one from a minority and the other, a majority, [...]



We visited a community of Northern Displaced IDPs in Puttlam recently. This was part of our Peace and Governance initiative, an effort to improve cohesion between youth and the entity we call Governance.
We had 3 discussions in course of our visit; the first was with a group of youth, the second with a young provincial [...]



Filed Under (Opinions, POLITICS, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Youth-Culture-Society) by Whacko on January-12-2010

In 1774 Samuel Johnson printed The Patriot; a critique of what he thought was false patriotism. He made his famous statement ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of the Scoundrel’ on April 7th, 1775. This line was not about patriotism in general – but what patriotism was not. With this statement he defined ‘self confessed patriots’ [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]



Filed Under (Conflict, Identity, Life, Opinions, POLITICS, Patriotism, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sri Lanka, War) by Anuradhi Widyalankara on January-4-2009

What scares me, and let me be absolutely honest with myself, is that if I was born as one of you I would have fought as one of you.
I will not try justifying that statement and I am not trying to read your mind. This is basic human behavioral idealism. Simply we humans are born with [...]