The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India's general elections last year was greeted with relief by secularists and democrats everywhere. Not entirely unreasonably: they read
´Hope´: By Chandraguptha Thenuwara
The civil war in Sri Lanka ended on 17 May 2009 with a grave human tragedy, and the plight of war-affected Tamil civilians remains distressing. More
Up-country Tamil plantation workers remain a subjugated community, treated as little more than bonded labour. The current political foment includes opportunities for change.
Ben Bavinck, a Dutchman born in Indonesia, lived in Jaffna from 1954 until 1972, as a missionary and a staff member of Jaffna College. In 1988, two years before fighting
Few celebrated the birth of the University of Jaffna in 1974, when it came into existence as a campus affiliated to the University of Sri Lanka. The demand for a
On 10 April, 1986, I was leading a trekker´s party in central Nepal from Manang over the Thorang La (5330 metres) and down lo Muktinath. We had just crossed
Sol´s gone down, run aground,
Wan glow wanes in westwake;
The duskin´ air is moisty.
Soundlessly,
Dip, slide east,
´tis twilight, throat´s thirsty.
Jetstream steam, ill at ease,
Before the beginning of August last year, Manidhar bista had come running ten times if he´d come once, to employ Pudke damai as a ploughman. So Pudke had ploughed
Beyond the Ganges river jMthe mountains of Nepal There lives my hairy YETI, Shi´s the fairest of them all. She´s lissome and curvatious And as Ye lis ga,
History is often accepted as an account of how good kings won battles, established empires and kept their subjects happy; and conversely, of how the bad ones oppressed the poor
