The Sri Lanka Youth Parliament is a youth led, youth run initiative, whose aim is to mobilize and create a network of young people to bring about positive and sustainable change to issues that affect youth and their communities in Sri Lanka .
The first step towards this endeavor was the ‘first sitting of the […]

Most of us do it. I did it once, closed it down, and I’ve started again now. Sometimes it an addiction, sometimes it’s a soapbox, sometimes it’s a result of “utter joblessness” (The Gutter Flower). It’s blogging. And now, the Sri Lankan Blogosphere seems to be getting a new bunch: Teen Bloggers. What makes them […]

Mithra Sree Karunanayake’s article on last week’s Sunday Divaina, attempts to explore one of the favorite topics of Sri Lanka’s neo-conservatives: Culture and International Schools .
Whilst most of the article is done in the typical International School bashing manner that one expects, Mithra makes a couple of valid points in his article.
He talks of the […]

“Because sex education is rarely sexy,
And Erotica is rarely safe.
Putting the sexy back into safer sex.”
Ever heard of the Pleasure Project? One of the few organizations working on the “sexy” aspect of safer sex. I had the pleasure of being at one of their workshops last August, during the 8th ICAAP.
Those of us who actually […]

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 […]

“Because sex education is rarely sexy,
And Erotica is rarely safe.
Putting the sexy back into safer sex.”
Ever heard of the Pleasure Project? One of the few organizations working on the “sexy” aspect of safer sex. I had the pleasure of being at one of their workshops last August, during the 8th ICAAP.
Those of us who actually […]

It’s been the subject of much controversy since the olden days. It has been associated with everything from undying romance to utter moral breakdown: pre-marital sex. We spoke to a couple of young people from various backgrounds and of varying ages, and asked them for their opinions on the matter. The responses, to say the […]