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Current Issue: May 2005

Volume 4: Issue 1

Editorial Comments:

Commissioning Accountability? Political Assasinations and the Politics of Fear
- Vasuki Nesiah

Engaging the JVP on Federalism
- Ahilan Kadirgamar

Hello JVP, Meet Mr. Gramsci… Civil Society, NGOs and the State
- Nanthikesan

Interventions:

Taxonomy of the JVP circa 2005AD
- Kumar David

An initial assessment of the post-1988 JVP
- Upali Cooray

Displaced and displeased: fragile fragments of conversation
- sumathy, along with nazeera

Vienna Convention and Sri Lankans on Death Row
- Nishan de Mel

Post Tsunami Reconstruction and the Eastern Muslim Question
- Fara Haniffa and Mirak Raheem

In Memoriam:

Remembering Kalaichelvan (Gfyplf; fiyQd; - fiyr;nry;td; - In Tamil with Bamini Font)

Guest Column :

SouthPaw Two
- Pradeep Jeganathan

Critic's Corner:

Engagements with 'At the Water's Edge'

At the Edge of Fiction
- Nivedita Menon

At The Water's Edge: A Review
- Mangalika de Silva

Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City
- Chi-ming Yang

From the Revolution to New Forms of Struggle: Review of 'No More Tears Sister'
- Aaron Moore

In The Public Sphere:

Breaking Taboos: Speaking about Rights and Intimidation in Toronto
- Asha

lines off the web:

On the Road with 'In the Shadow of the Gun'
- Marian Yalini Thambinayagam

Reader's Comments:

Musings from a North Paw
- Jennifer Hyndman

On Our Cover Art

 

 

 

 

 

Current Issue: Aug 2004

Volume 3: Issue 2

Editorial Comments:

Child Soldiers and "Our Boys"
- Ahilan Kadirgamar

The Politics of Faith and Fold
- Vasuki Nesiah

Peace Talks: Where to from here
- Nanthikesan

 

Interventions:

 

Experiences of Tamil Women:
Nationalism, Gender and Political Agency - Part III
- Nanthini Sornaraja

Whose Mission? Limits and Potentials of the SLMM
- Ingrid Samset

gpuNjrthjk; cz;ikAk; fw;gidAk;
- v];. vk;. grPH (In Tamil - Bamini Font)

Regionalism: Fact or Fiction with Reference to the Karuna Saga
- S.M.M. Bazeer

xU fhy; Ehw;whz;L;
- ghy#upad (In Tamil - Bamini Font)

Expatriate property developers in post-civil war Sri Lanka
- Manoharadas Manobavan

Social rights in contemporary South Africa
- Arun K. Thiruvengadam

From Bay of Pigs to Baghdad: The Shackles of Imperialism
- Rajan Hoole

 

Critic's Corner

 

Recovering Subversion by Nivedita Menon
- Farzana Haniffa

Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd: In What Language?
- Nilanjana Bhattacharjya

 

In Solidarity:

 

ALSO IN OUR NAME - Collective for Batticaloa

Strengthening of Human Rights and Respect for Humanitarian Standards - Peace Support Group

 

On Our Cover Art

May 2004

Volume 3: Issue 1

Editorial Comments:

The Pornography of Violence: Tales of Truth and Torture
- Vasuki Nesiah

Aid, Cricket and Accountability ...
- Nanthikesan

Hegemony and Rebellion: The Sangari and Karuna Rebellions
- Ahilan Kadirgamar

Interventions:

Critical Engagement or Constructive Engagement?
- Alan Keenan

From Murder to Violence Against Women
- Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham

Njrj;ij njupe;Jnfhs;sy;
- ghy#upad;

'When our Peace is Shattered' and other poems
- Balasooriyan

Experiences of Tamil Women:
Nationalism, Gender and Political Agency - Part II
- Nanthini Sornaraja

Interviews:

Sarath Fernando (Co-Secretary, Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform - MONLAR) - PartII

Fiction:

Prisoners of Liberation
- Rajmohan Ramanathapillai

Critic's Corner:

"I want to paint pictures for non-artists": Nazlee's art
- Sumathy

Essential Reading: Playing Lions and Tigers
- May Yee

February 2004

Volume 2: Issue 4

Editorial Comments:

Sri Lanka Elections: Peace as if People Mattered
- Nanthikesan

Neo-Liberal Fields
- Ahilan Kadirgamar

Taxation without Representation - Vasuki Nesiah

Interviews:

Ananthasangari (Member of Parliament, President TULF)

In Tamil

Sarath Fernando (Co-Secretary, Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform - MONLAR)- Part 1

Interventions:

Sodomy, Law, Social Change
- Arvind Narrain

World Social Forum
- Aaron Moore

Experiences of Tamil Women:
Nationalism, Gender and Political Agency
- Nanthini Sornaraja

Struggles of South Africa's HIV/AIDs War
- Samuel Choritz

Dialogue & Debate:

Federalism: Sri Lanka's Answer to Ethnic War
- Kumar David

A Response to Kumar David: What is left of the Left

- Vasuki Nesiah

Fiction:

Front Row
- Pradeep Jaganathan

Critic's Corner:

Zillij: A Review
- Farzana Haniffa

In Solidarity:

An Appeal Against Religious Violence

November 2003

Volume 2: Issue 3

Editorial Comments

From ISGA to Eternity: The light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice..--Vasuki Nesiah and S. Nanthikesan

ISGA and Economic Democracy -- Ahilan Kadirgamar

 

Interventions:

The Impossible Refugee of Western Desire - Suvendrini Perera

Death Penalty: Women Bodies as Sites of Contestation - Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham

Persistent Deprivation of Jaffna's Fisherfolks - Shanmugaratnam

Opening Citizenship: Civil Society and Queer Networks in Sri Lanka - Sharmini Fernando

War and Terror: From Birmingham to Batticaloa - S.M.M. Bazeer

Economics and Gender - Fabienne Peter

The Status of Economic and Social Rights and Minority Grievances - Ahalya Dakshana

The 'Clothesline' Project - Sri Lanka - The Women's Support Group

Fiction:

Playing with Lions and Tigers - Rohini Hensman

August 2003

Editorial Comments

Militarization or Democratization - Ahilan Kadirgamar

Betting on Dispossession - Vasuki Nesiah and Nanthikesan

 

Interventions:

Engaging with Muslim Personal Law in Sri Lanka: - Chulani Kodikara

Peace and its (Dis)Contents: A Minority Perspective - Qadri Ismail

Darning a Social Fabric Rent Asunder - Clarence Dias

The 1953 Hartal: Lesson For Today? - G. Rodrigo

The marginalization of the minorities: Malayaga (Hill Country) Tamils - B. A. Kader

Twisted Things - Redley Silva

Critics Corner:

The World Press Photo Exhibit in Colombo - V.O.C De Puta, IRC (Boosa)

Lute Song and Lament: A Review - Santhush Pararajasingam

 

In Solidarity:

Editorial Comments:

From Berlin to Bonn to Baghdad: The Axis of Humanitarian Militiarism - Vasuki Nesiah

Averages and Outrages - Nanthikesan

The Violence of Peace - Ahilan Kadirgamar

Articles

Man-Made Laws and Feminie Feelings - Yasmine Tambiah

Displaced Women - Sophia Elek

Assessment of Needs in the Conflict Affected Areas in the North and East - Muthukrishna Saravananda

Who Wins the Neo-Liberal Peace (Part 2)? - Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake

Gujarat Revisited - Jean Dreze

Out of Line(s): Guest Column

Trickling Up - Anika

Dialogue

Q&A with Lionel Bopage

Q&A with Kethesh Loganathan

Lines off the Web

Buddhist Monks (Bhikkus) and Peace in Sri Lanka - C.R. De Silva

Reviews

'Imagining Karma' - Pradeep Jaganathan

Against Race - Nilanjana Bhattacharya

Secularism Debate - Lawrence Liang

In Solidarity

HR Statement

February 2003

Editorial Comments:

Barbie Dolls and Saraswathi - Nanthikesan

Articles:

Definition - Subuhi Jiwani

Recommendations of International Women’s Mission to the North East of Sri Lanka

Our Cover Art

Editorial Comments:

Long-Term Peace and Muslims in the East --- Nanthikesan

Electing Alternative Pluralisms - Vasuki Nesiah

Democratic Development - Ahilan Kadirgamar

Articles

Argentina, Brazil, Latin America and the World Economy - J. A. Tapia

Aid Conditionalities and Democratization: Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- Ahalya Dakshana

Architecture and Revolution - Kanishka Goonewardena

Kalu Sudu Mal: The Cinematic Suicide Body and its Politics - Neloufer de Mel

Child Soldier - Luther Uthayakumaran

"We May Now Go Home": Muslim Refugees of Sri Lanka - Shahul H. Hasbullah

Not In Our Name - Meera Perera, South Asians Against Police Brutality and Racism

God Bless America - S. Sivasegaram

Reader's Comments:

Conflict Resolution: A Response to Editorial - Haisen Dev

August 2002

Editorial Comments:

Conflict Resolution: Politics of
Peace Talks - Vasuki Nesiah

On Activism - Ahilan
Kadirgmar

Articles:

When I was Waiting for the White Dove - M A
Nuhman

Translation my back-side neighbour -- Arjuna
Parakrama

On Sectarianism - Kumar David

Review of Sri Lanka: Global Challenges -
Aaron Moore

Globalization for Whom? - Dani Rodrik

Limits of Nationalism - Cheran

Human Rights and the Peace Process in Sri
Lanka - Alan Keenan

Cultural andLinguistic Cousciousness of the
Tamil Community - K. Kailaspathy

Identity of a Man - M A Nuhman

"Don't talk about Human Rights" - Kevin
Shimmin

Interview: A. Sivanandan

Interview: Nirmala Rajasingam

The Global Sounds of the Asian Underground -
Nilanjana Bhattachariya

The Failures of the Oslo Process - Raif Zreik

How to Wage War the American Way -
Malathi de Alwis

The Alternative Law Forum

The Climate in South Asia: Hot and Nuclear -
M. V. Ramana

May 2002

Editorial

Give 'em Enough Rope -- Bhaggiyadatta

"Amma, Do Not Weep" and "Yaman" -Cheran

Diaspora Flow

"Muslim on the Periphery" - Ameena Hussein

"Minor Matters"- Qadri Ismail

"Disco-very" -- Pradeep Jeganathan

"In God We Trust: Hindutva's War on Terror" - Ratna Kapur

"But I am Both" -- Ramani Muttettuwegama

"Peace Process, The People, and Civil Society" - Jayadeva Uyangoda

"Lesbian Activism in Sri Lanka" - Women's Support Group of the Companions on a Journey