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The political movement in Ceylon against British rule began on the 2nd March of 1915, exactly 100 years after losing independence to the British in 1815. A group of educated youth, led by A.E. Goonesinha, a 24-year-old from Kandy, gathered in the Pettah Public Library and founded the Young Lanka (…)
“She enjoyed the rare privilege of living a meaningful life through her dedication to organising the working class for the liberation of the working class and humanity,” remarked Dan Gallin, a prominent intellectual in the international trade union movement and a former President of the Global (…)
, by ROZAIS Naveed
The 200-year legacy of the Malaiyaga Tamil community in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is renowned for its incredible cultural diversity and pluralism – the result of a long history shaped by various ethnicities, languages, and religions. It is this cultural diversity, coupled with our incredible (…)
, by FERNANDO Ruki
13th November 1993 will be 31 years since bombs were dropped by the Air Force over St. James Catholic Church in Gurunagar, Jaffna.
Nine civilians were killed, several others injured and church and buildings nearby suffered severe damages. There is very little news and discussion about this in (…)
, by Daily FT
As the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) commemorates its 35th “November Heroes” day this year, it finds itself having ascended to the highest political office in the land after its candidate won the recent Presidential election. The commemoration is held to remember those who died in the 1987-89 (…)
, by PERERA N.M.
(Comrade N.M. Perera’s statement from the dock on the 8th of February, 8, 1944, when he was tried at the Kandy Magistrate’s Court on the charge of escaping from lawful custody. He was convicted by the Magistrate and sentenced to six months’ rigorous imprisonment and fined of Rs. 100. This was (…)
, by KEERAWELLA Gamini
The passing away of Prof. P.V.J. Jayasekera on July 11, 2024, after a brief illness, has left a profound void in the study of modern history in Sri Lanka. He lived a productive academic life, offering guidance to generations of students with his thorough and unique analytical perspective, right (…)
The Silenced Era
(From Shared ENCOUNTERS in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand – International Centre for Ethnic Studies)
A Gentleman from Jaffna
Watching Sound of Music at Rio Cinema, Colombo was an unforgettable childhood recollection for Swarna Pathirage. “My favorite song was ‘Sixteen (…)
, by ABEYASEKERA Asha L. , PERERA Tania
On 18 May, Sri Lanka marked the 15th anniversary of the end of war. In 2009, many Sinhala people in the South took to the streets to spontaneously celebrate what they imagined as a new beginning for Sri Lanka—a rebirth that could forget the past. The birth of Israel on 14 May 1948 was (…)
, by FERNANDO Ruki
Killings of civilians and other atrocities have been widespread during three decades of war, mostly in the North an East. Sri Lankan armed forces, police and the LTTE appear to be responsible for many massacres according to eye witnesses and circumstantial evidence. It’s rare that Sri Lankan (…)
, by TAMMITA-DELGODA SinhaRaja
Modernism appealed to Keyt’s temperament, liberating him as a man and an artist. Confined and stifled by the morals and conventions of the day, he had already broken with its social codes. Modern art and its innovation opened up a new path for him. Enabling him to be free, to be different and to (…)
, by KAHINA Ashik
A new collection presents the harsh, even brutal lyricism of Lakdhas Wikkramasinha, forged amid the violence of the 1971 JVP insurrection and still unlike anything else in Sri Lankan letters
Militant Tamil nationalists were not the first to mount an armed insurrection against the Sri Lankan (…)
, by Newswire
The Cabinet has approved the appointment of a 03-member committee to investigate the killing of Edward Henry Pedris 108 years ago by a decision of the colonial court-martial.
Photo from The Sunday Observer
The government said Edward Henry Pedris, who was 27 years of age at the time, was (…)
“It was the class struggle in free flow and it constituted the highest point that the class struggle had yet reached in Ceylon”
70 years ago this month, on 12 August 1953, “a demonstration of the tremendous power of the masses in action” influenced by Left parties and trade unions, shook the (…)
, by ONDAATJIE Angeline
The socialist era art collection at People’s Bank in Slave Island
Nestled amidst the bustling streets of Slave Island (Kompannavidiya) lies an obscure art gallery that remains largely unknown to the public. The building, a stark relic of Sri Lanka’s socialist era in the 1970s, is frequented (…)
, by BANDARA Dhanuka
The idealised “village” was at the core of the people’s struggle last year. As a fundamental of Sri Lankan nationalist thought, agrarian utopianism helps to explain the country’s past and imagine a different future.
In Sri Lanka, during last year’s aragalaya, or people’s struggle, the concept (…)
, by GUNASEKARA Tisaranee
“Our challenge is to devise some arrangement which enables us to coexist if not in amity then at least in forbearance.” Jawaharlal Nehru (quoted in Andre Malraux’s Anti-Memoir).
During Black July, marauding mobs, when uncertain about the ethnic identity of a potential victim, would order (…)
, by DEVAPRIYA Uditha
Inspired by Yugoslavia’s market socialism, Trotskyists in the Sri Lankan government instituted workers’ councils during the 1970s. A decade later, the experiment collapsed. What explains its rise and fall?
On June 28, 1948, the Cominform, the Stalinist alliance of European Marxist-Leninist (…)
, by ALLARDICE Lisa
Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better
When Shehan Karunatilaka (…)
, by HENSMAN Rohini
I am not in Sri Lanka, and I feel torn about what is happening there. Acute anxiety about how millions will survive the shortages of food, fuel and medicine jostles against a glimmer of hope that this crisis could be the beginning of the end of a decades-long nightmare. Since the country gained (…)
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