Rahul Samantha Hettiarachchi According to information obtained from the Department of Wildlife under the Right to Information Act, Rs.722 million worth of firecrackers (6,468,750 individual crackers) were distributed from 2014 to 2020 to stem the human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka. Sri
Rahul Samantha Hettiarachchi In Sri Lanka, many public authorities inadvertently block the public’s right to information guaranteed by the Right to Information Act. Therefore, the right to information, a hallmark of a democratic society, is under serious threat. Integrity, which is dependent on the efficiency of a country’s public authorities, is a distinctive
Partheepan The Valikamam area in Jaffna which is widely respected for its historical antiquity and natural wonders has recently become a site of contention. Situated in Valikamam, Nilavarai is one of Jaffna’s key attractions drawing tourists including many from Sri Lanka’s south. For over a year and a half, the Nilavarai area has been deserted […]
Asanka Abeyratne In Sri Lanka, torture and death in police custody have become commonplace practices over the last few decades. Almost all of the recent killings targeting underworld suspects in police custody were justified by the logic of “firing in self-defence” during raids on hidden weapons or drugs. The police’s […]
C.J. Amarathunga Several incidents of replacing the Tamil language with Chinese in the name boards of some projects funded by China were reported recently. One such incident was reported from the Colombo Port City project. The name board in its central garden area was in English, Sinhala, and Chinese. The Tamil language was not there, […]
C. J. Amarathunga It has been over a year since Sri Lanka first faced the Covid-19 pandemic. At the time of writing, the country continues to be entrenched in a severe crisis. People’s lives are almost at a standstill due to constant closures and travel restrictions. Daily wagers have their revenue streams […]
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Kamanthi Wickramasinghe Waking up early in the morning to walk 4-5 KM to school through unpaved, deserted roads and wooded patches in poor lighting – and often without a proper breakfast – is the common plight of a majority of children in Sri Lanka’s estate sector. The descendants of labour brought down from India and […]
Krishni Kandasami Ifham There are many obstacles when working as a journalist in any part of the world but a female journalist faces greater challenges due to the inherently patriarchal nature of the field. l started my journey as a journalist by joining a major Tamil newspaper at the peak […]
C. Dodawatte One day in the late nineties, I visited the village of Nugelanda on a reporting assignment. I cannot recall the exact dates, perhaps it was the year 1999. Nugelanda is a rural village in the Uhana Divisional Secretariat in the Ampara District. It was a border village that was frequently attacked by the […]