by P.K. Balachandran, Eurasia Review, Oregon, USA, February 27, 2023 While the Trincomalee port’s intrinsic value is well-known, its exploitation has been stymied by a variety of factors The natural endowments and the strategic value of Trincomalee port have been well-known for long time. Yet, to date, very little concrete has been done to… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Reviving the Northern Economy in Sri Lanka
Speech made by Dr. Indrajit Coomarasamy Colombo, February 21, 2023
Childhood Memories of Telok Pulai, the Chinna Yaalpaanam
Of Klang, Malaysia by Sivananthiram Alagandram, Geneva, February 26, 2023 Many who lived in the Chinna Yalpanam have gone abroad . Kindly consider posting at sangam, so that it would enable many to share their experience in Telok Pulai as well as the social change that has happened, I have given my e mail for… Read more »
Disappeared Tamil Babies of Sri Lanka
by Association for the Relatives of the Enforced Disappearance (North and East Provinces), October 1, 2019 Disappeared Tamil babies of Sri Lanka 2019 by Mothers of the Disappeared Sri Lanka stands out as the only country in the world where babies, as young as eight months old, have enforcedly disappeared by a Government. All these… Read more »
It’s Time to Rethink the Idea of the “Indigenous”
by Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, February 20, 2023 Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who did come first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the concept escape its colonial past? The term was shaped by social-evolutionist thinking; white settlers used it to designate the “primitive” other. Podcast… Read more »
Elite Capture and Corruption of Security Sectors
by United States Institute for Peace, Washington, DC, February 17, 2023 Executive Summary Closing the Effectiveness Gap The objective of US security sector assistance is to help build effective, accountable, responsive, transparent, and legitimate security sectors in partner nations to address common security risks. Such action ultimately benefits US national interests, as when the United… Read more »
An Archive for the Dispossessed
Creating spaces for multiple truths by Shankari Chandran The Griffith Review, Australia, May 2022 Shankari Chandran is a Tamil-Australian lawyer and the author of three books: Song of the Sun God (Perera-Hussein Publishing, 2017), The Barrier (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2017) and Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo Press, 2022). She is the deputy chair of Writing NSW and a member of the Sweatshop Literacy Movement…. Read more »