· September, 2011

Stories about Sri Lanka from September, 2011

Sri Lanka: Visa On Arrival Cancelled

Sri Lanka has cancelled issuing visas on arrival to 76 countries and visitors from those countries will have to get prior Visa approval through an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) system....

30 September 2011

Why don’t South Asians talk to each other?

South Asians consist of one fifth of the planet’s population and they have similar cultures. And yet some kind of loose confederation between South Asian countries looks like an unattainable...

29 September 2011

Sri Lanka: University Autonomy Under Threat

Groundviews posts an appeal of the academic community to the Sri Lankan government protesting a directive that all state universities (who enjoy autonomy) should hire the services of certain government...

26 September 2011

Sri Lanka: Identity Crisis

Shaahima Fahim at Groundviews discusses about the notion of the search for national identity in the post-war Sri Lanka.

17 September 2011

Sri Lanka: The Hunt For Women Bloggers

Indi.ca reports that The Women and Media Collective is holding a meeting of Sinhala and Tamil language women bloggers in Colombo on the 9th of September, 2011. The meeting will...

5 September 2011