The 2007 assault on the news director of the state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation by Mervyn Silva, and the stalling of the investigation and case, remains a blot on media freedom during and after Mahinda Rajapaksa’s regime
A youth bulge, economic failures, corruption and the perversion of democratic processes are shared causes behind the protest movements that have toppled governments in Southasia
Former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested for misuse of public funds, but opposition leaders have opted to grandstand rather than press for reform
Charges are finally to be filed against military officers of the Tripoli platoon, implicated in the 2008 abduction and assault of Keith Noyahr as well as the killings and abductions of numerous other Sri Lankan journalists
Galkande Dhammananda wants to heal Sri Lanka’s ethno-religious divisions, but can he change a long tradition of hardline Sinhala-Buddhist monks stoking hatred against Tamils and Muslims?
The film ‘Rani’ absolves the Ranasinghe Premadasa government of the murder of Richard de Zoysa, whose ghost still haunts Sri Lankan arts and society – and tarnishes the legacy of his mother, Manorani Saravanamuttu
This week in Himal
This week, Sohel Sarkar reviews three recent books unpacking the violent roots of caste-based vegetarianism. Sarkar writes that vegetarianism in India continues to be framed in
A conversation on the failed attempts at accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka and hopes from the country’s new political dispensation for movement towards transitional justice.
The delays, denials and obfuscations in the investigation into the Sri Lankan editor’s murder reveals continued impunity around the killing of journalists in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka rejected the Rajapaksas and an entire political establishment in the presidential election, with voters serious about a break with the past, says human rights advocate Ambika Satkunanathan
