Archive for April, 2009
I once had an argument with a friend, whom the most of society would recognize as being disabled, about the acceptable terminology for someone like her. She didn’t seem to mind being called disabled, and I wasn’t buying it.
I argued that we all have different disabilities and abilities. It’s just that society expects that [...]
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Tags: Ability, Aimee Mullins, Colombo, differently-abled, Disability, Sri Lanka, TED
BB on Citizen’s Journalism
YaTV’s Sri Lanka Today program featured this blog and others on a segment of Citizen’s journalism.
Filed under: Media, Opinions | Leave a Comment
Tags: Activism, Blogger, Citizen's Journalism, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Youth
Our TOT on Citizenship Education
Went well. Most of the guys who applied were a bit older than we expected, but we had diverse range of organizations and backgrounds were represented. Hopefully some of these guys would start their own initiatives of civic education in their communities.
What Beyond Borders hopes to achieve is to create a bunch of people competent [...]
Filed under: Events-Activities-Announcements, HIV/AIDS, Identity, Peace-Conflict-Governance, Sex - Sexuality - Gender, Sri Lanka | Leave a Comment
Tags: Citizenship Education, Civic Education, Colomvo, Education, Reform, Sri Lanka
We are on Twitter!
Like everyone else, We are also on twitter. Follow us there.
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Tags: Youth, Sri Lanka, Beyond Borders, Twitter
Last week, I was at a workshop on the financial crisis and it’s impact on South Asian economies put together by LYSA – Liberal Youth of South Asia – a network of South Asian youth organizations based on liberal values.
The workshop was mainly handled by Dipankar Sengupta, professor of economics at the Jammu University, an [...]
Filed under: Events-Activities-Announcements, India, Opinions, Pakistan, Sri Lanka | Leave a Comment
Tags: Beyond Borders, Dipankar Sengupta, Financial Crisis, Harsha De Silva, LYSA, Recession, Sri Lanka
To Speak the Truth and Die
Lasantha Wickrematunge was killed for being a vociferous proponent of what he and many others thought was the truth, the world has seen a great many good souls who have been mysteriously killed for speaking the truth. Many have spoken about how Lasantha was great in what he did.
I have another [...]
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Tags: Freedom, Lasatha, Sri Lanka, Truth, UK, War
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