An EXCLUSIVE Interview with S I Keethaponcalan
Dr S. I. Keethaponcalan is Chair of the Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution Department at Salisbury University, Maryland.
Read more..A Response to S I Keethaponcalan’s EXCLUSIVE Interview
T RamakrishnanDr S.I. Keethaponcalan has made some pertinent points in the interview given to the Centre for Strategic Studies Trincomalee (CSST). The most important of them is his response to the question on the effectiveness of liberal values stating "we need to adhere to these principles. One of the reasons we lost international support was that we went against these principles under the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).Read more..
Keethaponcalan Clarifies and Counters
S I KeethaponcalanDr S I Keethaponcalan clarifies his position in respect of T Ramakrishnan’s November 12 response to his interview with the Centre for Strategic studies Trincomalee published on 6 November 2018.
I am not surprised by Ramakrishnan's comments about the loyalty of Sri Lanka's Tamils to New Delhi. Of course, the Indians want us to be loyal to India and New Delhi.
Read more..Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Crisis: The Geopolitical Dimension
Ana Pararajasingham
The entire country, not to mention the international community, was taken unawares on October 25 when Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa, the former president.
Read more..Reflections on TPC’s Invitation to Tamil Youth
M Nilanthan
(This is a translation of a recent article by M Nilanthan. The translator has sought to provide some context and as such it is not a direct translation.)
Read more..Book Review: K. M de Silva, The Island Story: A Short History of Sri Lanka, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2017.
Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan
It’s said that fools rush in where the wise fear even to walk. I tiptoe hesitantly, conscious that I am no historian (my discipline was Literature) while the author is perhaps the most eminent of Sri Lankan historians writing in English. The hope is that what I write will be taken as a layman’s perspective and contribution to discussion.
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