Selected Writings - J.S.Tissainayagam

J. S. Tissainayagam has a M.A in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He edited the monthly journal The North-Eastern Monthly, and was employed by Sri Lanka One-Text Initiative, an organisation involved in the Sri Lankan peace process.

[see also Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam indicted on terrorist charges and generally Indictment Against Sri Lanka: Censorship, Disinformation & Murder of Journalists]

24 February 2008

Child soldiers: What the Government report did not report

23 December 2007

Washington's curb on military aid: What justifies war?

16 December 2007

Will words of a diplomat be put into action?

25 November 2007

Politics of terror in devil's playground

2 February 2006

Will talks in Geneva dispel war clouds?

20 January 2006

A game that will speak not its name

15 December 2005

Tamils, LTTE and the elections

21 November 2005

LTTE teaches a lesson to those who play political games

15 September 2005

De Constructing Lakshman Kadirgamar “the best foreign minister the country ever had.”

"..Kadirgamar was not a tortured soul uncomfortable with Sinhala hegemony as well as Tiger militarism and wracked by shades of intellectual doubt as to where he belonged. He pitched his camp firmly among the forces interested in debilitating the self-respect and power-base of Tamils, hoping perhaps that eventually a rump Tamil leadership could come to some sort of accommodation with the Sinhalese. This is why after his death the Venerable Ellawela Medananda thero can call him “the best foreign minister the country ever had.”

15 August 2005

Rituals refashion politics, power relations between social groups in Batticaloa

15 July 2005

Batticaloa’s ancient rituals celebrate community values both in war and peace

15 June 2005

Sivaram, his Murderers and his Mourners

28 April 2002

Interim Council: problems and questions

21 April 2002

De-proscription: litmus test for Ranil

7 April 2002

Blunting the political edge