U.S. businesses, primarily apparel brands that import Sri Lankan-made goods to the United States, must begin to act in a more socially responsible and thoughtful manner if they want to be regarded as good corporate citizens.
Amarnath Amarasingam | Posted 06.05.2011
If Claude von Clausewitz is correct that war is merely "politics by other means," then the same can be said about sports. Sport has never transcended politics and never will.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Raavanan, the new Indian film produced in both Hindi and Tamil, premiered at the Tenth Annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festiva...
Sunil Sharan | Posted 05.25.2011
What was supposed to be a breakthrough meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan last month degenerated into a public rebuke of Indi...
Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011
An Indian actress won a legal battle over comments she made about premarital sex when the Supreme Court threw out 22 cases lodged against her by outra...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...
Nimmi Gowrinathan | Posted 05.25.2011
As agendas and priorities for the national election are debated and determined amongst superpowers, politicians, and donors -- how do we gauge the political will of the Tamil people?
Anuradha K. Herath | Posted 05.25.2011
"They think the children are poor peoples' sons and daughters," Sritharan said. "The ordinary soldier from the Sinhala south is also from a poor peasant family."
James Ross | Posted 05.25.2011
Holding several hundred thousand civilians under lock and key, the government is keeping the survivors of the fighting from telling their stories to the media and human rights groups.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
As I travel through Sri Lanka, covering the nation as it seeks reconciliation among its diverse population after decades of conflict, I am receiving e-mails from my friends at home asking me to review the basics.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Sri Lanka is now focused on the "3 R's:" Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation. European leaders need to stop lecturing and start helping.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Congressman Heath Shuler's visit was the first time I have heard an American elected official seem to understand what has transpired here in Sri Lanka.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
I have flown from Haiti to Peru to Guyana in the Americas, Hong Kong to Indonesia to Sri Lanka in Asia, and Togo to Ghana in Africa.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Since the defeat of the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, the streets of Columbo, the capital of Sri Lanka, are alive with euphoria.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Sri Lankans were given the day off Wednesday as the government declared a national day to celebrate its victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels....
AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka declared Monday it had crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing their chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and ending hi...
TEDTalks | Posted 05.25.2011
The TED Open Translation Project brings TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world, by offering subtitles, time-coded transcripts, and the ability for volunteers to translate any talk into any language.
Sydney Morning Herald | Posted 05.25.2011
It is hard to imagine Christine* in combat. But the diminutive 14-year-old with a cheeky smile and dancing eyes knows how to handle a Kalashnikov and ...
The Guardian | Gethin Chamberlain, David Pallister and agencies in Colombo | Posted 05.25.2011
Thousands more Tamil civilians were fleeing the rapidly diminishing sliver of rebel-held land in north-east Sri Lanka today as government troops conti...
The Guardian | Randeep Ramesh | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 150,000 people are being shelled daily and are running short of water and medicine in a Sri Lankan-government declared "No Fire Zone", accor...
AP | KRISHAN FRANCIS | Posted 05.25.2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Government artillery attacks and air raids in Sri Lanka's northern war zone killed at least 38 civilians Wednesday and woun...
Karunyan Arulanantham | Posted 10.18.2011