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“Sri Lanka’s War Is Long Over, But Reconciliation Remains Elusive” by Julie...
Sri Lanka, a palm-fringed island in the Indian Ocean, is in the sixth year of peace. But as the country prepares for elections in August, the legacy of its long civil war still casts a shadow. The...
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“Jaffna sees sharp fall in number of voters” by T. Ramakrishnan
The Jaffna electoral district in the Northern Province has witnessed a sharp drop of over 25 per cent in the number of voters via:...
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“Targeting Lanka: Playing Ball with Tamil Extremism 2008-14″ by Michael Roberts
The emergence and sharpening of Tamil nationalism from the 1940s to the 1980s is a complex tale which cannot be easily summarized in a few strokes. It is a tale of Sinhala extremism at one pole and...
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“Tamil Tiger Women: Through Selected Writings By Them” by Charles Sarvan
Under the Tamil Tigers, women enjoyed a rare degree of emancipation. They carried out the same duties, did the same work, suffered and died as their male comrades. They saw it as a challenge to prove...
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“Sri Lankan Tamils push for autonomy and justice” by Amal Jayasinghe
“The road blocks and military checkpoints are gone, and the restrictions on foreign tourists and journalists visiting the area have been lifted. But the mostly Tamil residents of Sri Lanka’s northern...
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“Dark clouds over the Sunshine Paradise: Tourism and Human Rights in Sri...
‘During the war, many Tamils fled the north and settled abroad or in other regions of the island. Since the end of the war, many of them have wanted to return and reclaim their land. However, the army...
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“Re-imagining the State in Sri Lanka” by Mahendran Thiruvarangan
“The election campaign of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF: Gajen Ponnambalam’s new outfit) in the North-East has re-animated the discussions on the...
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“Tigers as Spiders! Ex – LTTE Cadres Contesting as Independent Group in...
6,151 Candidates from 21 registered political parties and 201 independent groups are contesting the Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections scheduled for August 17th 2015. Of these 3, 653 are from the 21...
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“Vanishing Hope in Sri Lanka: Amrita Chandradas on Remembering”
Editor’s Note: Amrita Chandradas is a documentary photographer currently based in Singapore and working across Southeast Asia. In 2014 she won the prestigious “Top 30 Under 30” award by Magnum...
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« Caste in a Tamil Family On Purity and Pollution in Post-war Jaffna » by...
Written using the voice of Zehra Hashmi, an ethnographic narrative examines caste in transition in Jaffna, centred around a Vel.l.āl.ar family that lived in the peninsula throughout the duration of the...
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« Sri Lanka to host conference on Tamil culture » The Hindu
The International Movement of Tamil Culture (Sri Lanka chapter) in association with the University of Jaffna will be holding a two-day special conference on ‘Challenges and Initiatives of Tamil...
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« Friday et Friday » de Antonythasan Jesuthasan alias Shobasakthi, en...
« Friday et Friday » de Antonythasan Jesuthasan alias Shobasakthi. Nouvelles traduites du tamoul (Sri Lanka) par Faustine Imbert-Vier, Élisabeth Sethupathy, et Farhaan Wahab Une enfance à Allaipiddy,...
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« Why South Asia’s majorities act like persecuted minorities » by The Economist
When it is pointed out that Sri Lanka has, in fact, never experienced an act of violence attributable to Islamists, and that at this rate of conversion it will take the island’s Muslims about 10,000...
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“Sri Lankan refugees seek Indian citizenship” The Hindu
Scores of Sri Lankan refugees living in various camps in Virudhunagar district on Monday submitted separate petitions seeking Indian citizenship to Collector A. Sivagnanam. Stating that they had lived...
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“Sri Lanka’s Presidential Election: Healing the Wounds is the New Task” by Pr...
Meanwhile, the pressures of big electoral victories are such that the new president and his family members, who will constitute the core of the new regime, might find it difficult to resist the...
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