08/14/2010
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The Island
Last week I highlighted three episodes as evidence of the dystopian state of Sri Lankan politics. There are many more but one in particular deserves dishonourable mention: the KP interviews. The serialized media interviews of T.S. Pathmanathan (KP) should raise the concern whether Tamil politics in Sri Lanka is being reduced to the status of serial stories published in Tamil Nadu magazines like Kalki, Kumudham and Ananda Vihadan. All three were staple reading among Sri Lankan Tamil middle class families in better times. In hard times now, people have no time for stories but story telling is becoming the pastime in Tamil politics.
06/14/2010
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Groundviews
From the psycho-social trauma and destruction of the social fabric in Jaffna after close upon three decades of brutal war to the challenges of post-war development, entrepreneurship and economic revival, these two interviews focus on two leading Tamil civil society activists who have lived in Jaffna from when the war was still raging.
03/08/2010
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BBC
The recent arrest of Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate, Gen Sarath Fonseka, along with some of his supporters, has raised fears among rights groups in the country. The authorities accuse the general of having worked with what they call anti-government forces. Here people in Sri Lanka discuss the latest political developments as they prepare for general elections in April.