A Crisis of Governance and the Fluidity of Ethnic Identity by Pitasanna Shanmugathas, University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Canada, Jurist.org. April 25, 2025 Edited by: Alanah Vargas | JURIST Staff, US Mark Salter, a journalist, analyst, and writer with over 25 years of professional experience in democratization, governance, and post-conflict peacebuilding, speaks to JURIST’s Senior… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere (1930-2025)
An Appreciation by Sachi Sri Kantha, April 15, 2025 The death of Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere on March 25th, at the age of 95 in Colombo saddened me. Though his physical frame has departed, what he has left behind in his published books and research papers in journals do remain, to offer guidance to various research… Read more »
Richard Armitage Obituary
Richard Armitage has notoriety among Tamils for arming one side – the Sri Lankan government – which fatally destabilized the 2002 ceasefire between the LTTE & the government. – ED Richard L. Armitage, 79, Dies; State Department Official in a Turbulent Era While serving as Colin Powell’s deputy during the Iraq war, he found himself… Read more »
H.LD(on) Mahindapala (1931?-2024)
A Requiem to an anti-Tamil Polemicist by Sachi Sri Kantha, March 26, 2025 H.L.D. Mahindapala was summoned to meet his Maker on January 30, 2024. He was 93, when he died. After his passing in Colombo, I had read quite a few of his obituary elegies in the digital media. All of these had either… Read more »