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Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lankan health workers get disinfected after a cremation of COVID -19 victims at a cemetery in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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  • Sri Lankan soldiers hold national flags and march in a parade during the 73rd Independence Day ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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  • Sri Lankan army soldiers wait to receive COVID-19 vaccines in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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  • Sri Lankan nursing staff administer COVID-19 vaccines to frontline health workers in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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  • Sri Lankan health workers wait to be administered the COVID-19 vaccine in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has begun inoculating frontline health workers, military troops and police o...

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  • Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa receives over 500,000 doses of made in India COVID-19 vaccine, in Colombo.

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  • Sri Lankan municipal workers carry the coffin of a COVID-19 victim at a cemetery in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka on Friday approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 ami...

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  • England batsmen Jonny Bairstow after defeating Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the 1st test match at Galle International Cricket Stadium in Galle.

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  • England batsman Dan Lawrence raises his bat after scoring his maiden fifty during the first test match between Sri Lanka and England at Galle International Cricket Stadium in Galle...

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  • Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena stands for a photograph with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, left, after addressing a joint media briefing in Colombo...

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  • England cricketer Chris Woakes, center with black suitcase, walks after arriving with teammates at Mattala Rajapaksa International airport in Hambantota, Sri Lanka. Team allrounder...

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  • NSA Ajit Doval during signing of minutes after a trilateral meeting with Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Major General (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne and Maldives Foreign Minister Mariya Didi...

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  • NSA Ajit Doval, Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Major General (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne and Maldives Foreign Minister Mariya Didi during signing of minutes after a trilateral meeting on ...

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  • NSA Ajit Doval with Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, during his visit to attend the tri-lateral meeting among India, Sri Lanka and Maldives on maritime and security cooperat...

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  • NSA Ajit Doval being welcomed by Army Commander Lt Gen Shavendra Silva on his arrival for trilateral India-Sri Lanka-Maldives consultations on maritime and security cooperation, in...

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  • NSA Ajit Doval being welcomed by Army Commander Lt Gen Shavendra Silva on his arrival for trilateral India-Sri Lanka-Maldives consultations on maritime and security cooperation, in...

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  • U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second second, greets Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, second right, before his meeting with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajap...

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  • Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena gestures towards U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before their meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Pompeo plans to press Sri Lanka to p...

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  • Sri Lankans line up as health workers take a swab samples of people to test for COVID-19 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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  • Yang Jiechi, Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party, left, holds talks with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, right, in Colomb...

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  • Sri Lanka: 9-Year-Old Girl Caned To Death During ‘Exorcism’ Ritual
    The victim’s mother believed that the girl had been possessed by a demon and she took her to an exorcist to cure her, police said
    Mar 01, 2021
    | Associated Press (AP)
  • Pak, India Can Resolve Kashmir Issue Through Dialogue Only: Imran Khan In Sri Lanka
    India had said, earlier this month, that it desires normal neighbourly relations with Pakistan in an environment free of terror, hostility, and violence.
    Feb 24, 2021
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Pakistan PM Imran Khan Discusses Ways To Strengthen Trade Ties With Sri Lankan President
    Imran Khan and President Rajapaksa also discussed how to exchange technical knowledge to promote agriculture in the two countries.
    Feb 24, 2021
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Chaminda Vaas Resigns As Sri Lanka's Fast Bowling Coach Three Days After Appointment
    One of the country's finest pacers, Chaminda Vaas has also resigned from his position as the Sri Lanka Cricket Academy coach
    Feb 22, 2021
    | PTI
  • BJP Cannot Form Political Entity In Sri Lanka: Officials
    The development comes after Tripura CM Biplab Deb said that Amit Shah talked about ‘overseas’ expansion after winning in all the states in India
    Feb 16, 2021
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Muttiah Muralitharan Among Group Asking Court To Reform Sri Lanka Cricket
    Since 2016, Sri Lanka has lost 118 out of 194 international games.
    Feb 15, 2021
    | Associated Press (AP)
  • Sri Lanka Chief Selector Quits After 2-0 Defeat Against England
    Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said in a statement that Ashantha de Mel has resigned from the post with immediate effect, citing personal reasons.
    Jan 28, 2021
    | Agencies
  • Bowling To India Will Be A Different Ball Game For England Spinners, Says Mahela Jayawardene
    Left-arm spinner Leach claimed 10 wickets in the two-match series while off-spinner Bess took 12 in England's 2-0 victory.
    Jan 26, 2021
    | PTI
  • SL Vs ENG, 2nd Test: England Complete Series Sweep After Sri Lanka Collapse In Galle
    Dom Sibley and Jos Buttler combined to steer England to victory in the second Test, despite the best efforts of Lasith Embuldeniya
    Jan 25, 2021
    | Omnisport
  • Watching Joe Root Knock 'Was A Great Learning Experience, Says Kumar Sangakkara
    After notching up a double century in the series opener, Root continued his brilliant run by hitting 186 in the second Test
    Jan 25, 2021
    | PTI
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Magazine
  • Halloa Across The Adam’s Bridge
    As China sweeps the oceans and scours the mountains, India engages the incumbent Rajapaksa brothers to reaffirm close ties with Sri Lanka
    Oct 01, 2020
    | Seema Guha
  • New Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's Many Challenges Include Balancing Ties With India And China
    Will the new government make religious and ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka feel safe and wanted? Gotabaya Rajapaksa's every move will now be monitored
    Nov 21, 2019
    | Pranay Sharma
  • The Subcontinental Menu
    Oct 16, 2019
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  • The Subcontinental Menu
    From the hip-hop kids of Karachi who address social issues to astronomers of Sri Lanka who have discovered two new exoplanets, read this and much more in The Subcontinental Menu.
    Sep 04, 2019
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  • The Subcontinental Menu
    Aug 07, 2019
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  • The Subcontinental Menu
    Jun 19, 2019
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  • Enemy Within! Deadly Easter Blasts Expose Sri Lanka's Fractured Polity: Is Peace At Stake Again?
    While the Easter blasts that targeted Christians in Sri Lanka reveal a well orchestrated mechanism of planning and execution, the government's failure to curb this bloodshed despite having credible information is even more worrying.
    Apr 25, 2019
    | Pranay Sharma
  • The Subcontinental Menu
    From a 'Rafale' wedding card for guests to a selfie with an elephant that proved fatal, read this and much more in this week's The Subcontinental Menu.
    Jan 30, 2019
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  • The Subcontinental Menu
    From biryani as prasad at a temple near Madurai to soap made of donkey's milk, read this and much more in The Subcontinental Menu this week.
    Jan 25, 2019
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  • On Modi’s Watch, India Has Evolved A Softer Touch With Its Neighbours
    On Modi’s watch, India has evolved a softer, defter touch with its neighbours. This course-correction could usher trust and prosperity.
    Dec 20, 2018
    | Pranay Sharma
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Blog
  • Modi's M-R-S Sirisena Gaffe
    Modi's M-R-S Sirisena Gaffe
    Feb 18, 2015
  • Sri Lanka's Killing Fields
    Sri Lanka's Killing Fields
    Jun 15, 2011
  • Diversity Before Wicket
    Diversity Before Wicket

    When Pakistani journalist Abid Shah visited Sri Lanka, everyone wanted to talk to him about the attack on their national cricket team in Lahore, and Shah began to see South Asia’s differences through the prism of the sport:

    So my question: where was the spontaneity, the joy, the unstructured chaos of street cricket in Sri Lanka?

    DeSilva could not understand what I was saying. Children played cricket in schools, he said. Or in grounds. Why would they play in the street?

    Which reminded him. What had happened in Lahore? My trip to Sri Lanka was in March, so we both knew what he meant. “So tell me,” his furrowed stare burrowed through me. “Who did it? The Tamils?”

    “The Taliban.”

    To each his own demons. ...

    ***

    In a history of South Asia, the chapter on life after the British could begin: they did not speak the same language.

    Polyglot India, democratic, compromised by instituting two national languages: Hindi and English. The southern Indian provinces would not answer a telegram from Delhi if it was sent in Hindi.

    Pakistan, a country with little feel for grassroots democracy, declared Urdu as its national language, foretelling disaster when half the country spoke Bengali, and when the ruling classes had no incentive to educate or compromise with the masses. Why cut deals with the masses if your families, your clans, will lose their grip on power?

    Could it be that Sri Lanka’s Sinhala majority was proportionately large enough to impose its culture on the rest of the country? Did this, coupled with a populist, democratic culture and ethnic nationalism provide the incentive to educate? Could it explain that brilliant 90 per cent [literacy] statistic, beyond official reports and humdrum of school figures? Was this the reason for Sri Lanka’s high literacy rate compared to its neighbours and why its ruling elite made education a priority?

    Read the full piece in Abu Dhabi's The National

     

    Only tangentially related, but was somehow reminded of  Shahid Amin's recent Universal Understanding, in the TOI and Sheldon Pollock's The Real Classical Languages Debate in the Hindu, late last year.

    Jul 12, 2009
  • Sri Lanka: Revenge Drama
    Sri Lanka: Revenge Drama

    K.P. Nayar in the Telegraph on how India will pay a heavy price for abdicating a Sri Lanka policy:

    The death of Velupillai Prabhakaran brought back a flood of memories. If history is to determine the day when India’s pre-eminence in all of South Asia began its decline, it would be November 17, 1986. Prabhakaran, the founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, would be one of the characters who set in motion a process that brought about this decline. And if history is to fix the responsibility on a single individual for triggering the onset of that decline, it would be P. Chidambaram, who was then the naïve minister of state for internal security in Rajiv Gandhi’s government.
    More here

    May 27, 2009
  • Sri Lanka: Blood On Our Hands
    Sri Lanka: Blood On Our Hands

    M K Bhadrakumar, a former Indian diplomat who served in Sri Lanka in the 1980s in rediff.com:

    A long time ago, we created Prabhakaran. We picked him up as an urchin from nowhere. What we found charming about him was that he was so thoroughly apolitical -- almost innocent about politics. He was a simpleton in many ways, who had a passion for weapons and the military regimen. He suited our needs perfectly. 

    Which was to humiliate the J R Jayewardene government in Sri Lanka and teach it a hard lesson about the dangers of being disrespectful to India's status as the pre-eminent power in the Indian Ocean. Jayewardene was too Western-oriented and behaved as if he never read about the Munroe Doctrine when he read history in Oxford. We didn't like at all his dalliance with the Israelis and the Americans in our very backyard. 

    So, we fostered Prabhakaran and built him up as a pinprick on Jayewardene's vanities -- as a Bhindranwale of the Deccan.

    More here

    May 21, 2009
  • Lessons From Sri Lanka
    Lessons From Sri Lanka

    R. Jagannathan in the DNA:

    For India, which faces several insurgencies and revolts, the first lesson to learn is this: it must display determination and muscle early in any war. Otherwise, the adversary is likely to conclude we are weak. 
    ...The second lesson is to spot and isolate the ideological and spiritual mentors of the insurgents.
    ...The third lesson is about cutting off the source of funding as soon as possible.
    Read the full article: Tiger, Tiger Burning Out
    May 07, 2009
  • A Long, Slow Descent Into Hell
    A Long, Slow Descent Into Hell

    The decades of bitter fighting between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil rebels has left a beautiful country bereft and thousands caught in the crossfire. Novelist Romesh Gunesekera mourns his island's fate in a moving essay in the Guardian:

    For 26 years the main story in Sri Lanka has changed little: bombs, bullets, carnage and suffering. LTTE suicide bombs on buses, at train stations, suicide trucks at the Temple of the Tooth, the Central Bank, the assassination of one president, the wounding of another, and government military campaigns with increasing firepower and increasing casualties, terrifying air strikes and massive bombardment. Sadly, there have been other spikes of horror in the country with tens of thousands of dead - the 2004 tsunami, floods, the 80s insurrection in the south, disappearances, abductions - but the war has gone on relentlessly, in one area of the north or another, with only short periods of truce in which the Tigers and the government each gathered strength for the next round.

    In those 26 years the great map of the 20th century was transformed: the Berlin wall came crashing down, Germany was reunified, the Soviet Union disappeared, China became the factory of the world and India boomed. But in Sri Lanka, the story remained the same.

    Read the full essay: A long, slow descent into hell

    Apr 30, 2009
  • Arundhati Roy: The Silent Horror Of The War In Sri Lanka
    Arundhati Roy: The Silent Horror Of The War In Sri Lanka

    Arundhati Roy in the Times of India

    The horror that is unfolding in Sri Lanka becomes possible because of the silence that surrounds it. There is almost no reporting in the mainstream Indian media — or indeed in the international press — about what is happening there. Why this should be so is a matter of serious concern. 

    From the little information that is filtering through it looks as though the Sri Lankan government is using the propaganda of the ‘war on terror’ as a fig leaf to dismantle any semblance of democracy in the country, and commit unspeakable crimes against the Tamil people. Working on the principle that every Tamil is a terrorist unless he or she can prove otherwise, civilian areas, hospitals and shelters are being bombed and turned into a war zone. Reliable estimates put the number of civilians trapped at over 200,000. The Sri Lankan Army is advancing, armed with tanks and aircraft.

    More here

    Mar 30, 2009
  • Pakistan's RAW Report
    Pakistan's RAW Report
    This is the report that's been doing the rounds in Pakistan (see this identical story attributed to one Ansar Abbasi in The News and to no one in Pak Tribune among other publications): 

    The report tagged "SCRET/IMMEDIATE" with subject "SOURCE REPORT" reads:

    "It has reliably been learnt that RAW (Indian intelligence agency) has assigned its agents the task to target Sri Lankan cricket team during its current visit to Lahore, especially while travelling between the hotel and stadium or at hotel during their stay.

    2. It is evident that RAW intends to show Pakistan a security risk state for sports events, particularly when the European and the Indian teams have already postponed their proposed visits considering it a high security risk to visit Pakistan.

    3. RAW has also collected photographs of leaders of Jamaatud Daawa (proscribed) and its establishments to target them.

    4. Extreme vigilance and heightened security arrangements indicated."

    The original report is available here and here

    Mar 04, 2009
  • Kamila Shamsie: Pakistan's Last Refuge
    Kamila Shamsie: Pakistan's Last Refuge

    Kamila Shamsie in the Guardian:

    "Perhaps, though, if we are to try desperately for a silver lining, we can say ..." one of my friends ventured, in response to the attacks, before her voice trailed off into gloomy silence.

    But I knew the end of her sentence. "When a group attacks cricket it ensures that the whole nation will turn against them, rise up against them. So if people believe it was the Taliban or the Lashkar-e-Taiba ..."

    But the sadder truth at the heart of Pakistan's psyche is that we have been made so cynical, so mistrustful of the world that there is unlikely to be agreement about who sent the gunmen. The government is already saying the attack was meant to destroy Pakistan's international reputation (which every Pakistani recognises as code for "India did it".) And if the Taliban or the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba or any other group is blamed, there will be many who'll say that cricket is so beloved that the attack is just a set-up to harden public opposition to those groups and justify any action the government takes against them.

    Full Article: This attack struck Pakistan's last redoubt of national pride

    Mar 05, 2009
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