Sri Lanka
Sex and Sexuality in Sri Lanka
Vineetha Mokkil
Writer and publisher Ameena Hussein on editing the first anthology of erotic writing from Sri Lanka and aspiring to be the Rohinton Mistry of the island nation.
A Veteran’s Debut
In Sri Lanka’s parliamentary polls, Sanath Jayasuriya is the star candidate of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s party while his former captain Arjuna Ranatunga is batting for General Fonseka.
‘He used the military for personal gains’
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s younger brother and Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was in New Delhi recently. He told Open that former army chief General Sarath Fonseka, who had contested the presidential elections, will be tried for treason and for politicising the army.
Songs of War
These young musicians from strife-torn places like Afghanistan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka are rebels in their homeland. But they believe their music is a weapon of peace.
India This Week
Indian citizenship for Sri Lankan refugees; handshake and a boot in West Bengal; Bihar’s bank ban; Kashmir protest; and creating second-class doctors
A Diaspora’s Outcry
Prabhakaran may be dead and the 26-year-long civil war in Sri Lanka over, but in the minds and hearts of Tamil expats in the UK, the battle still rages on
Memories of a Movement
A generation of middle-class boys who grew up in Madras learnt something curious from the Sri Lankan refugees: that there is such a thing called ‘a cause’
Cheers for Fears
There are troubling signs in triumphalist Sri Lanka that the Tamil issue is not any closer to resolution
Tiger Terrain
Prabhakaran was terrified of peace. He lived off terror. But how did the LTTE fund its campaigns of sustained violence? This riveting account explains how
The Death of Innocence
Our staff photographer steals a look into the lives, loves, fears and meagre ambitions of Sri Lanka’s underage soldiers
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