· September, 2011

Stories about Sri Lanka from September, 2011

Sri Lanka: Visa On Arrival Cancelled

  30 September 2011

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. The Puppeteer analyzes whether it will effect the tourism industry in Sri Lanka.

Why don’t South Asians talk to each other?

  29 September 2011

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 dream. Dheera Sujan at South Asia Wired wonders why South Asians usually do not talk to each other.

Sri Lanka: University Autonomy Under Threat

  26 September 2011

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 owned company consisting of ex-servicemen for security.

Sri Lanka: Yellow Journalism Threatens LGBT Community

  21 September 2011

Hans Billmoria reports how a local newspaper published their alleged exposé on “condoms and lubricating gels being distributed to men who have sex with men”, and published the addresses of the community based organizations involved in the process. This has put the gay community in the country in fear and...

Sri Lanka: Identity Crisis

  17 September 2011

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

Sri Lanka: The Hunt For Women Bloggers

  5 September 2011

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 also be the foundation for a women bloggers’ workshop to be held in near future.