Ethnic Cleansing in Sri Lanka
It’s difficult to talk dispassionately about what is going on in my country, when the horror of what the government is doing to a civilian Tamil population – already shelled …
Tamils
Report from Sri Lanka
First published in Race & Class, 19/2, Autumn 1977 It is the last week of July and in Colombo the Vel Festival is on. It is a Hindu festival, a …
The Politics of Language
Originally published in the Ceylon Daily News 9.7.1970 Language can be the key not only to cultural identity but also to the maintenance of privilege. The Tamils of Ceylon …