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.
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September 2013 Asking why the Government is replacing free education with Free Education Zones. More |
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August 2013 Calling on the TNA to defend the interests of the Tamil fishermen of the North and East. More |
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July 2013 A two-part article reviewing a new study of civilian deaths in the war. Part 1 Part 2 |
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June 2013 Why the 13th Amendment must be implemented. More |
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April 2013 On the rise in electricity prices and how the Government is making the masses pay. More |
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February 2013 Why our response to attacks on journalists has to be smarter. More |
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January 2013 Highlighting the responsibility of the Government to rein in Sinhalese Buddhist extremists. More |
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December 2012 On MPs’ contributions to the budget debate. More |
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November 2012 Linking the attempted impeachment of the Chief Justice with efforts to further centralise power in the office of the President. More |
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October 2012 Why Mahinda Rajapaksa wants to get rid of Proportional Representation and why Ranil Wickremasinghe is ready to help him. More |
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September 2012 On the results of the Eastern Provincial Council elections and prospects in the North. More |
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September 2012 Questioning the official narrative that people displaced by the war are now home and dry. More |
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August 2012 How the President is promoting his relatives to consolidate his grip on power. More |
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August 2012 On the Government’s hit and miss plans for infrastructure development. More |
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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 |
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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.
