Sri Lanka - Himal Southasian (Page 27)

The Tao of cricket revisited

Unlike the heroes of cinema but like those of politics, the cricketer is doomed to betray the hopes and ambitions of his fans.

By Ashis Nandy

/ 1 Jul 1999

The return of JVP

THE JVP is back. The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the party with Marxist roots which fuelled two failed insurrections in the country in 1971 and 1987-88 that led to the killing

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1999

LIONS AND TIGERS

D.B.S. Jeyarai examines the phases of a bestial war fought under the banners of beasts, and concludes that it will have to run its fearful and self-destructive course.

By DBS Jeyaraj

/ 1 Apr 1999

The announcement by the International Committee of Red Cross that it had received over 600 dead bodies after the fighting at Killinochchi in December momentarily focussed the international community on

By Liz Philipson

/ 1 Apr 1999

Killing fields in serendib

Sasanka Perera says the conflicts of the last two decades will leave a long legacy of political violence. Over the last two decades, Sri Lanka's traditions of civil

By Sasanka Perera

/ 1 Apr 1999

Endless war

Iqbal Athas says that both peacemakers and warmongers are running out of options. War and peace in Sri Lanka have an inexplicable relationship. If there is a lull in the

By Iqbal Athas

/ 1 Apr 1999

The political correctness of bowling

A goniometer was used to measure the angle of "fixed deformity" in Muralitharan's elbow… The recently concluded tour by the Sri Lankan cricket team to Australia

By Kalinga Seneviratne

/ 1 Mar 1999

Run Dharsha, run

Little Lanka's investments in sports paid off at the Bangkok Asian Games. Now, its athletes have their sights on the Sydney Olympics next year. The 13th Asian Games

By Kalinga Seneviratne

/ 1 Feb 1999

Shirking Middle Class

The Kilinochchi disaster in September 1998 was the exclamation mark at the end of the Sri Lankan government's failed strategy to capture the Jaffna-Vavuniya highway, help Tamil moderates

By Nilan Fernando

/ 1 Feb 1999

UPPER CASTE CHRISTIANS

Christians form 2.3 percent of India's population and 2 percent of Pakistan's, while they account for 7.6 percent of Sri Lanka. But unlike in

By Jawid Laiq

/ 1 Feb 1999

PICKING UP THE PEACES

In his annual address marking Heroes' Day in late November LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran spoke of the need to solve the Sri Lankan conflict in a civilised manner. His

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Jan 1999

BUGLE CALL

For the past two months the Sri Lankan government, using the state media, has been trying to pull off the impossible. They have been projecting the terrible losses suffered by

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Nov 1998