PRAGOTI

Rather than considering a progressive alternative to the two presidential candidates, incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa and ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, the major minority parties and their representatives have thrown their lot with either of the two candidates for short sighted reasons in upcoming presidential elections. 

My post on the same in the Newsclick website. 

 Vellupillai Prabhakaran is dead and officially dead. A quick blog post on what happened and what entails. 

I must beg forgiveness from readers for overly... focussing too much on the Sri Lankan situation, when as a political commentator there are a million things to be written and talked about in India itself. Perhaps, it is the linguistic root in me that forces me to keep the situation in Sri Lanka in focus.

Enough has been said as to what is going on in Sri Lanka -- a humanitarian crisis for civilians caught between two forces bent on a military Armageddon. The question however remains as to what is now on the horizon as the LTTE is on the precipice.

Impunity continues to be the norm where attacks on journalists in Sri Lanka are concerned. Since the murder of Dharmaratnam Sivaram “Taraki” in April 2005, there have been at least 14 other cases of journalists and media workers reported murdered,writes Sukumar Muralidharan.