Bedevil: In the same boat by Channa Wickramasekera Colombo: Bay Owl Press, 2010 Reviewed by Sivamohan Sumathy ‘We may have all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now’. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Why has...

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj The  tragic history of post-independence records that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have been subjected to mass-scale mob violence in the years 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983. The anti-Tamil violence of July 1983 was the most terrible and horrible of them all. It remains etched in memory even after 27 years. Twenty ...

by Pearl Thevanayagam The recently concluded war with all its human miseries such as loss of lives, widowhood, displaced and maimed civilians, orphans, destruction of properties and denigration of agricultural lands and the disruption to normal life throughout the island...