The furore over the Tamil boycott ignores a central question: under what conditions is the act of voting central to democratic governance?
23 November
2005
The assertion that peace requires the urgent democratisation of the Northeast conceals an unwillingness to confront two unavoidable realities of Sri Lankan politics.
16 November
2005
The irony of Lakshman Kadirgamar is that despite his famous assertion that he was not a tribalist, his effectiveness in justifying and rationalising Tamil civilian suffering depended critically on his ethnicity.
07 September
2005