Is Dayan Jayatilleka the target of a witch-hunt?

“I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.” -- Franz Kafka in “The Trial”

“GOING TO GENEVA”:TNA IN THE EYE OF A POLITICAL STORM

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) regarded as the premier political representative organization of the Sri Lankan Tamils has been in the eye of a political storm for the past few weeks. The TNA which contested the 2010 Parliamentary polls under the Housesymbol of the “Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi”(ITAK)has been mired in controversy over its recent decision of not going to Geneva in Switzerland where the 19th session of the United Natio

MARIE COLVIN: THE UNCROWNED QUEEN OF INTREPID JOURNALISTS

It was with a deep sense of sadness that I read about the death of Marie Catherine Colvin the respected war correspondent of Britain's "Sunday Times" 22nd along with a French photojournalist Remi Ochlik in Syria on February.

OPERATION HOLDFAST”:CONTOURS OF A COUP CONSPIRACY

“Operation Holdfast” was the codename given by a group of conspirators to a plot devised to overthrow the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Government headed by the world’s first woman Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike through a bloodless coup d’etat in January 1962. 

50th ANNIVERSARY OF ABORTIVE COUP D’ETAT CONSPIRACY IN JANUARY 1962

Fifty years ago on Sunday January 28th 1962 the people of the Island nation known then as “Ceylon” were rocked by a special news bulletin in the afternoon  on “Radio Ceylon” (Sri Lanka Broadcasting  Corporation)that interrupted regular programming . The shocking announcement repeated ad nauseam by a male voice on Radio stated that a conspiracy to stage a coup d’etat had been foiled.