Browser war, it’s a never ending war. Earlier IE managed to smack down Netscape Navigator. Recently Firefox started to bring IE down and many people started to use Firefox. Indic users got more advantage in Firefox 3 due to its support to Unicode fonts.
Currently hot news is Google launching a new browser and its going […]

David Blacker has an interview with a Private Military Contractor, who’s Sri Lankan-based company operates in Iraq. Interesting.

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…

Ok I know this particular post is long overdue, my interests lay in disarray, so I write this only now.
Firstly, I would like to note that I have enormous respect for the soldiers who risk their lives to help us live a peaceful life. I hope that they could just live a normal life, […]

The Poltical Colomn and Defence Colomn of the Sunday Times couldn’t have been more clearer about the battles that raged last week.
It was all a show. One big happy media campaign for the Eastern Election that went terribly wrong. The deaths of all those brave soldiers, the fool-hardy offensive which didn’t include air or naval […]

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 […]

In it’s never ending stream of initiatives to combat the LTTE, the Government recently came up with the Civil Defence Force, or the Civil Arakshaka Balakaya. It’s something in the lines of semi-trained armed civilians.
This, whilst being in the lines of Civil Vigilance Committees, has the added (dis)advantage of being armed. This is what I […]

In it’s never ending stream of initiatives to combat the LTTE, the Government recently came up with the Civil Defence Force, or the Civil Arakshaka Balakaya. It’s something in the lines of semi-trained armed civilians.
This, whilst being in the lines of Civil Vigilance Committees, has the added (dis)advantage of being armed. This is what I […]

In it’s never ending stream of initiatives to combat the LTTE, the Government recently came up with the Civil Defence Force, or the Civil Arakshaka Balakaya. It’s something in the lines of semi-trained armed civilians.
This, whilst being in the lines of Civil Vigilance Committees, has the added (dis)advantage of being armed. This is what I […]

In it’s never ending stream of initiatives to combat the LTTE, the Government recently came up with the Civil Defence Force, or the Civil Arakshaka Balakaya. It’s something in the lines of semi-trained armed civilians.
This, whilst being in the lines of Civil Vigilance Committees, has the added (dis)advantage of being armed. This is what I […]

In it’s never ending stream of initiatives to combat the LTTE, the Government recently came up with the Civil Defence Force, or the Civil Arakshaka Balakaya. It’s something in the lines of semi-trained armed civilians.
This, whilst being in the lines of Civil Vigilance Committees, has the added (dis)advantage of being armed. This is what I […]

Mahawewa is in the news today! This formerly unheard of township near Chilaw where I live in, was on the news today due to a 5kg Claymore mine being strapped to a transformer (Not the kind that gets up and walks, but the other Electricity Board kind).
Claymore mines are anti-personnel mines. They are designed to […]

(Naïve) Foreigners coming into our little Banana Republic notice the armed military presence on the roads, and come to two conclusions.

Sri Lanka is at war (truth)
Sri Lanka has an awesome military strength (far from the truth)

These two conclusions are also shared by the general public , and is fueling the pointless fighting in the North […]

The one question that I have always wanted to address is, what really is the role of Sri Lankan youth? Depending on our social positions, the ideas instilled in us differ. As some of us know, if you are a member of the Colombo society, generally the trend is to receive a good education, […]

My country’s at war. I don’t pretend to know everything in this country to say whether the war is futile or useful. However, I truly wish that this would end so the killing will end with it. The families united, the roads open and people will walk free. But, will the end of war bring […]

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. […]

Whichever way a person looks at it, Sri Lanka is in the middle of a fully fledged war. And in conflict situations, the invisible impact like emotional scars and disorder of day to day life can be longer lasting, and can run deeper than the visible impacts, such as loss of life and destruction of […]

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 […]

The new day dawns so pretty, the sun shines so bright
I woke up to the ceiling, knowing something was not right,
Sat up with a jolt, knowing I had slept in late
Mom shouted “breakfast’s ready”, but I simply could not wait
The studio lay wide open, for me to read the news
To work I rushed at speed, […]