Empowering people in rural communities

The concerns raised at the last set of Divisional Secretariat Reconciliation Committees I facilitated this week in Mullaitivu and Vavuniya, after a long hiatus given an excess of travel in March, were both reassuring and upsetting.

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The Human Dimension

Can we learn something from the Titanic that sank 100 years ago?

No ship in history has captured the world’s imagination like the Titanic - once dubbed the greatest ship on earth, a product of man’s superior engineering feat of the early 20th century. It was built with the kind of solid workmanship that was noted back,

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Remembering Tissa:

A dazzling light of gargantuan versatility

Tissa Abeysekera was an artist, indeed atypical in calibre, who saw society through an artistic lense, yet equally felt the distress that humans did undergo in this riddle called life. He had a deep concern for the ongoing grievances, as society served unjustly, by segregating the deprived and garlanding the affluent, in extreme horrendousness. He was a man who was born to sense, sight as well as sound, and yet was able to uniquely distinguish their margins,

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