"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
This series of posts comes from Dr. Sharif Abdullah of the Commonway Institute, a regular visitor to Sri Lanka and active peaceworker. The war poster caption reads: “Now we have a country for ourselves, There is now a tomorrow for…
Via BBC: U.S. State Department image of the conflict area in Sri Lanka, taken this month after approximately 100,000 refugees were herded onto the beach near the so-called safe zone. Â U.S. State Department spokesman Robert Wood said, “There continues to…
Anthony is a Tamil living in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, an elderly gentleman whose passive demeanor belies a lifetime of service to his community. During the Black July riots of 1983, hundreds (perhaps thousands) of Tamils were killed by…
People in Sri Lanka told me I should meet the “Russian monk.” When I finally located him, I called and asked if I could interview him. He agreed. Ven. Rathanasara is not really Russian, he’s Sinhalese, but he was educated…
I first went to Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, when it was under siege– the city itself held by the government and the countryside by the LTTE. Â The streets were empty, many of the shops closed, and soldiers were everywhere. A concrete pillbox…
Applying the principles of Sarvodaya (“the awakening of all”)originating with M. K. “Mahatma” Gandhi in India and refined by Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne in Sri Lanka, a group of students in Nepal helps a village repair a 30-year-old footpath to…