2012-2013
This is a selection from the weekly column I wrote for The Island and Colombo Telegraph between 2012 and 2013.
Some of the articles were reproduced by other newspapers, including Ceylon Today and The Sunday Leader.
September 2013 Asking why the Government is replacing free education with Free Education Zones. More |
August 2013 Calling on the TNA to defend the interests of the Tamil fishermen of the North and East. More |
July 2013 A two-part article reviewing a new study of civilian deaths in the war. Part 1 Part 2 |
June 2013 Why the 13th Amendment must be implemented. More |
April 2013 On the rise in electricity prices and how the Government is making the masses pay. More |
February 2013 Why our response to attacks on journalists has to be smarter. More |
January 2013 Highlighting the responsibility of the Government to rein in Sinhalese Buddhist extremists. More |
December 2012 On MPs’ contributions to the budget debate. More |
November 2012 Linking the attempted impeachment of the Chief Justice with efforts to further centralise power in the office of the President. More |
October 2012 Why Mahinda Rajapaksa wants to get rid of Proportional Representation and why Ranil Wickremasinghe is ready to help him. More |
September 2012 On the results of the Eastern Provincial Council elections and prospects in the North. More |
September 2012 Questioning the official narrative that people displaced by the war are now home and dry. More |
August 2012 How the President is promoting his relatives to consolidate his grip on power. More |
August 2012 On the Government’s hit and miss plans for infrastructure development. More |
July 2012 Why Sri Lanka’s problems with the international community are not the product of misguided or poorly implemented foreign policy but of wrong-headed domestic policy. More |
June 2012 Arguing for demilitarisation that goes beyond removing checkpoints and reducing the size of High Security Zones. More |
All my pieces from the period 2012-2013 can be found in the archives of this blog.