විදුහල්පති ධර්මදාස හා දොස්තර ජයසිංහ
When Ivan heard that a doctor had been shot dead at Karandeniya he wanted to know why. He asked several people in Colombo with connections there, and from every one of them heard only that he was a kind young doctor who worked with great love for the people of the area — and nothing at all about the reasons behind his killing.
ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ අර්බුදය
Will the split that has opened inside the JVP hasten the decline it was already travelling towards, or will it renew the party and make it strong again? Six sections follow, on Kumar Gunaratnam, on correct Marxism, on the JVP’s social background, on commitment, on the absence of a forward vision, and on what should be done.
ඉන්දියාවේ හසාරේගේ දූෂණ විරෝධී විප්ලවය හා ශ්රී ලංකාව මුහුණ දී තිබෙන අවුල
Discussing the non-violent struggle Anna Hazare is carrying on in India to win a new anti-corruption bill matters to us here too: through it we can understand not only India’s future but the real nature of the tangle Sri Lanka faces in the same field.
අර්බුදය ඓතිහාසික දෘෂ්ටියකින් දැකීම
Political outlook is an important factor in whether political struggles bear fruit. Ivan is not a Marxist, and he accepts the idea that theory guides practice: there are political struggles in this country and they happen without a meaningful forward vision, and that is why the fighters have become people running on the spot.
හෘදය සාක්ෂියේ වික්ෂෝභය (3)
What Ivan sets out to analyse here is the moral crisis facing a society that has to live crushed between the two naked powers of an armed struggle for state power, when both sides stand level with each other — and specifically how that worked on the Sinhala society of the south during the JVP’s second insurrection.
ඝාතන සංස්කෘතියේ අත්තිවාරම්
The article opens by correcting two printing errors in the first part, published in the previous issue: Che, not ‘me’, was killed after being taken into custody, and the number of LTTE cadres in detention should have read more than ten thousand rather than more than a thousand. What follows is an anatomy of how a culture of killing was built.
රුවන් ජයතුංගගේ 71 කැරැල්ල ගැන
A psychiatrist has published an 855-page book on the 1971 insurrection under the title ‘The 71 Insurrection — a complete review from the beginning to the end’, priced at 1,500 rupees. Ivan knew the book was being written; what he did not know was that an interview of his had been included in it.
බින් ලාඩන් හා ප්රභාකරන් පරාජය කිරීම
America has at last managed to end the life of Bin Laden, the terrorist who held the whole of America in dread. Ivan sets that beside the two Sri Lankan cases — Wijeweera’s second insurrection and the defeat of Prabhakaran — and asks what a war against terrorism is, and where the difference lies.
ගාන්ධි නූතන ශ්රී ලංකාවට කැඳවාගෙන ඒම -5
As in many other colonised countries, the political awakening that sought reform came out of the religious revival — the native religions, pushed into a low condition under foreign rule, working to recover the standing they had held. In Ceylon that happened in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.
අරාබි විප්ලවය හා ජපාන ඛේදවාචකය
Before Japan the world’s attention was on the Arab world and the risings against its autocratic rulers. Beginning in Tunisia they spread to Egypt and other Arab countries, peaceful everywhere except Libya, where the movement took an armed form — and the thing that gave the young generation the political knowledge and drew them together was Facebook.