In the magazine   JAFFNA SPECIAL: 'Waiting for the Jaffna train' by Ahilan Kadirgamar |   February Issue   COMMENTARY: India's new NSA Shiv Shankar Menon and the India's foreign policy challenges | COMMENTARY: The new Rajapaksean regime | Letter to the whole-timer--Kanak Mani Dixit addresses Maoist ex-combatants on the future of the party |   February Issue   COMMENTARY: India's new NSA Shiv Shankar Menon and the India's foreign policy challenges | COMMENTARY: The new Rajapaksean regime | Letter to the whole-timer--Kanak Mani Dixit addresses Maoist ex-combatants on the future of the party |   February Issue   COMMENTARY: India's new NSA Shiv Shankar Menon and the India's foreign policy challenges | COMMENTARY: The new Rajapaksean regime | Letter to the whole-timer--Kanak Mani Dixit addresses Maoist ex-combatants on the future of the party |  
Jadhu Nadarajah

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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In the Magazine
February 2010

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

The pivotal battle of Elephant Pass, during August 1991, brought a sea change in the minds and lives of those living in Jaffna.

Poems

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.

Analysis

Letter to the whole-timer
By: Kanak Mani Dixit

The future of the ‘new Nepal’ is in the hands of the Maoist ex-combatants.

Commentary

NSA Menon

NSA Shiv Shankar Menon will have to address the need for coherence in India's foreign policy and rethinking towards its neighbours.

Commentary

The new Rajapaksean regime

The challenges President Rajapakse--and Sri Lanka--will face in a post-war milieu.

Towards a Rajapakse future

The president now has to set out ruling, and healing, a divided island. Will he?

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The 'ideal Sinhalese'

Sinhala-language literature remains in a crippling relationship wit...

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