
Jaffna journeys
As Sri Lanka gears up for another round of Rajapakse rule, life goes on in the northern tip of the island.
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As Sri Lanka gears up for another round of Rajapakse rule, life goes on in the northern tip of the island.
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read more...
Waiting for the Jaffna train
By: Ahilan Kadirgamar
Even as the people of Jaffna make use of their new freedoms of movement, they are confronted with the effect of decades of political stagnation.
Stifled hotbed
By: Kopalasingham Sritharan
University of Jaffna's potential as a centre of debate
The Jaffna diaries
By: Ben Bavinck
Bargaining in a labour regime
By: Mythri Jegathesan
Up-country Tamil plantation workers remain a subjugated community, treated as little more than bonded labour. The current political foment includes opportunities for change.
Ignoring two decades
By: Shreen Saroor
President Rajapakse’s belated promise to resettle expelled northern Muslims by May 2010 will do little to ameliorate growing tensions.
Letter to the whole-timer
By: Kanak Mani Dixit
NSA Shiv Shankar Menon will have to address the need for coherence in India's foreign policy and rethinking towards its neighbours.
The challenges President Rajapakse--and Sri Lanka--will face in a post-war milieu.
The president now has to set out ruling, and healing, a divided island. Will he?
Sinhala-language literature remains in a crippling relationship wit...
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