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The Social Impact of Hate Speech

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Gayan Yaddehige Swami Vivekananda once said, “Uttering harsh words when you have the ability to choose good words is similar to picking rotten fruit when you can pick ripe fruit.” This statement is more ideal for today than when it was first said. Hate speech aimed at an individual or group of
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A Father, a Lover, and a War

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Nimal Abeysinghe Army soldiers were war heroes for the Sinhalese, and Tamil rebels were heroes for the Tamils during the 30- year-long civil war in Sri Lanka. There was a bitter dispute between the majority Sinhala and minority Tamil communities. A friend of mine in the Army told me two stories that proved the kind-heartedness […]
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The Reality of Reconciliation in the Face of Disaster

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Nimal Abeysinghe There is no other law more powerful than nature to teach lessons to humankind. Nature’s lessons come in the form of disasters such as diseases, floods, and droughts. Nature affects everyone equally, without a religious or racial difference. The closest and best example for this is the Covid-19 pandemic, which we are experiencing […]
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The Heartless Body of War and Deserted Arugam Bay

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Kapilakumara Kalinga Memories of wartime: Arugam Bay was not depopulated this much even during the war, but the coronavirus pandemic has been more brutal to Arugam Bay. Anyone who visits Arugambay feels sorry now. I have been to Arugam Bay before, with my foreign and local friends, family, and even by myself for work and […]
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The Need to Improve Pre-Schools in the Estate Sector

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Arul Karkki The children who must be playful are sleeping in huts The first five years of a child’s life is crucial because this is when the child’s physical, mental, cognitive, and linguistic development occurs. Studies show that 50% of mental development takes place in this period. Negative drives such as anger, fear, anxiety and […]
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Missed Opportunities in Seeking Peace

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M.S.M.Ayub On March 1st, 1990, around 10 am I rang up Nelson, the Information Officer of the then Chief Minister of the merged North-Eastern Provincial Council, Annamalai Varadharaja Perumal for a chat. Through this conversation, I was able to pick up one or two clues of new developments in Tamil politics which I would later […]
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The peace bridge that connected the church and the mosque

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Gayan Yaddehige The three-decade war and terrorism built suspicion, hatred and mistrust, forgetting the people the humanity. The result was a society polarised between racial and religious lines. One community looked at the other with suspicion. A racist minority manipulated the context and created conflicts. Although various programmes were implemented in the post-war