Sri Lanka - Himal Southasian (Page 25)

Multilateral is better than bilateral

There is a clear danger of alienating the spirit of consensus on which the success of a larger South Asian free trade area will depend. It is no surprise that

By Dushni Weerakoon

/ 1 Sep 2000

SINHALA TIGERS

Soon after the government withdrew its draft constitution from Parliament on 8 August, the gaunt face of Hedigalle Vimalasara Thero appeared in a rash of posters. He staged a fast-unto-death

By Brian Jeganathan

/ 1 Sep 2000

IF INDIA CAN’T, PAKISTAN MIGHT

The outcome of this one will be worth watching. Will Pakistan come to the Sri Lankan government´s aid where India hesitates to tread? That might well happen given that

By Adnan Rehmat

/ 1 Sep 2000

Third degree of separation

One day in June, the Toronto Globe and Mail carried a news photograph showing a man, naked to the waist, surrounded by police officers. The man´s hands are handcuffed

By Amitava Kumar

/ 1 Aug 2000

The Tiger’s trap

In the last 15 years of the Tamil-Sinhala conflict, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been prisoners of their militarised, brutalised and violence-driven pursuit for a separate homeland. But

By Shastri Ramachandran

/ 1 Jun 2000

War and pain

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga´s "war for peace" has gone awry in recent weeks. Stark reality dawned on Colombo only after the 23 April fall of the Elephant

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Long view from new Delhi

However earnest her intention to end the 17-year-old ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga´s strategy of "war for peace" has backfired. Armed with a huge

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Jun 2000

Tamil Nadu. Taamil Eelam and Greater Eelam

South Asian´s longest war in Sri Lanka escalated over the course of May to a point where the military balance in the island´s north has shifted dramatically in

By DBS Jeyaraj

/ 1 Jun 2000

Sri Lanka’s Petition

The Dynamics among the countries of South Asia has changed dramatically with Sri Lanka´s open and unabashed call for New Delhi´s help for military and, failing that, humanitarian

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Seed Dispersal Patterns of the Dipterocarps of Sri Lanka

Short fiction SEED DISPERSAL Patterns of the Dipterocarps of SriLanka—this is the title of my research proposal. A fruit with-two wings—that's-what the word means—any botanist

By Neil Fernandopulle

/ 1 May 2000

NO STOPPING THE TIGERS

The peace initiative in Sri Lanka was dealt a deathly blow on 10 March, when the Tamil Tigers launched an explosive attack on the ceremonial state drive leading to Parliament

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 2000

What had only been conceded informally earlier, finally became official on 16 February when visiting Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek announced in Colombo that his country had accepted the task

By DBS Jeyaraj

/ 1 Mar 2000