"Is the World Ignoring Sri Lanka’s Srebrenica?"

The New York Times blog, Lede, carries a post authored by Robert Mackey, under this title, seeming to want to up the ante on MIA and Arundathi Roy's wild accusations, that others, like Indi.ca, have taken up. The post itself is that familiar mixture of sanctimoniousness and...

The Politics of IMF Conditions

The IMF is back in focus for Sri Lankan economists. It had perhaps been relegated to the back ground in ongoing discussions, because the current regime has declined to meet the Fund’s conditions for some time, and had no ongoing special arrangements with it. But now there...

The Politics of Humanism

There was a time when some people thought that that the world was flat, and a ship sailing off across the horizon would reach the edge of the sea, and fall off and disappear. It was perhaps a seductive idea that might amuse us now; it is important to also remember that it was...

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