by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jun 27, 2011 | Opinion
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is once again in the news, with its dire warnings about Greece’s debt and the U.S. deficit slowing down global economic growth. This tedious obsession with “growth” and fiscal management, while all other...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jun 7, 2011 | Opinion
It is tempting to read Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s alleged rape of a hotel maid as paradigmatic of the International Monetary Fund’s attitude toward poor nations and their citizens. It is also tempting to see the incident as typical of the abuse and...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | May 30, 2011 | Opinion
Buddhists all over the world celebrated Vesak last week. It is the commemoration of both the birth and the attainment of Enlightenment (nirvana) by Gautama, the Buddha. In Sri Lanka, a society that prides itself on being the missionary center of Theravada Buddhism,...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | May 12, 2011 | Opinion
With anti-government protests raging all over the Middle East, and even in the peaceful Maldive Islands, the large pro-government May Day rallies on the streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka, must have been viewed with some puzzlement by foreigners. However, fling together a...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Feb 2, 2011 | Opinion
With “whistleblowing” once again the subject of legal and political harangues, surely it is only a matter of time before WikiLeaks and Julian Assange make it to Hollywood. The finest example from Hollywood of the genre of thriller-journalism is Michael...
