Stories about Sri Lanka from October, 2007
Sri Lanka: Media and Emergencies
Moving Images, Moving People reflects on Media reports in emergency situations after attending the Global Symposium +5 in Geneva.
Sri Lanka: Anuradhapura, Terrorism and Hillary Clinton
On October 22, an air force base at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka was attacked by a Tamil Tiger suicide squad. [News: BBC]. According to BBC, Tamil Tigers claimed to have destroyed eight aircraft including spy places while losing 21 of their fighters. According to the Sri Lankan Government just two helicopters...
Sri Lanka: Outsourcing and Exploitation
Sampath's Mindspace on the exploitation of outsourcing partners in countries like India and Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka: The Government and Human Rights
Groundviews on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights's visit to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka: Military History
Cerno recommends a book on Sri Lankan military history during the Portuguese era.
Sri Lanka: What the blogs are saying
London, Lanka and Drums crawls through the Sri Lankan blogosphere to find us some wonderful posts.
Sri Lanka: On Virginity
Cynically Yours on virginity, comments on a previous post and the notion of technical virginity.
Sri Lanka: Environment and Blog Action Day
Hissyfits on trees, or the growing lack of them in Sri Lanka, and Words Of Wisdom on recycling on Blog Action Day.
Celebrating festivals, feasting and donating smiles
Last Saturday Muslims all over the world celebrated Eid ul-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan. Abul Kalam Azad a Chennai blogger shares his experiences. His children eagerly distributing festival sweets to friends and neighbours, His youngest daughter preparing a project detailing Ramadan with her non-muslim friend's help. Azad ponders...
Sri Lanka: Lanka and Ravana
While the controversy over Adam's Bridge continues, in Sri Lanka, the mythological character of Ravana is undergoing a process of Sinhalization. More at Transcurrents.
Sri Lanka: Violence against women and ICT
Voice of South on the example of a program in Sri Lanka in the context of using ICT to empower women against violence.
Sri Lanka: Blogosphere Roundup
A wonderful roundup of posts at the Sri Lankan blogosphere at London, Lanka and Drums.
Sri Lanka: Raid on LTTE safehouse
DefenceNet, which discusses military activities in Sri Lanka – on a bombing raid on an LTTE safehouse.
Sri Lanka: Any lesbians here?
Equal Ground on Ahmedinejad's comments on homosexuality in Iran, and the parallels in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka: First glimpses of Oman
A Sri Lankan blog – Pirat's Pandemonium on first impressions of Oman.
