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A man of many facets, Silan Kadirgamar was a historian by training (specializing in international relations) and a university teacher; a Christian by conviction and socialist by persuasion; an affable mentor to younger generations - not only his students, but also others, especially those caught up in the uneasy translation between Sri Lankan swabasha and globalized communication; a political intervener always in furtherance of progressive principles but never in pursuit of positions; and in the context of living in a politically divided island for almost all his life, Silan was a tireless and perpetually optimistic bridge builder

Two articles from The Sunday Times in Sri Lanka. The first one on the registration of Sri Lanka’s First Women’s Trade Union and the second one deals with recent mainstream economic policy making in Sri Lanka has been promoting the idea of labour “flexibility”

KOLKATA: An Indian national has been languishing at Dum Dum Central Jail despite a release order issued in November 2013. A Bongaon court had convicted him on the ground that he, being a Pakistani national, intruded on India. Pakistan, on the other hand, refused to recognize him as its own citizen.

We the undersigned express our profound dismay and disquiet at the continued official harassment by the central government of leading Indian human rights defenders Teesta Setalvad and Jawed Anand. Following the election of the BJP led government in Delhi in May 2014, the country has witnessed open strenuous official efforts to foist a large variety of charges of financial irregularity on them, to harass them, to tarnish their reputations, and to secure their arrests.

Maharashtra tops list for people displaced by dam projects: Government
In his reply to a question in Lok Sabha, minister of state for water resources Sanwar Lal Jat yesterday said that altogether 7,13,136 people have been displaced by a total of 100 dam projects in Maharashtra.