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New Blood
Being new to Beyond Borders (BB) is something that has grown to be a little old now. As a teenager, I’ve always dreamt of goals I would want to achieve someday and thought long and hard on areas that I’ve always been passionate about. I’ve dreamt big and thought small. That is of course until [...]
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Poetry with Teeth
Poetry has long been a form of activism. From the early Greek philosophers who wrote promoting their thoughts and ideas in the form of the acclaimed dialogue, contributing to the reshaping of their societies, to the greats of the Enlightenment that helped shape the Industrial Revolution to modern day activists and slam poetry, poems have always been used to play a role in identifying [...]
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Tags: Activism, Media, Poetry
Fixing educashun
I was not a student who academically excelled in School. Whilst scoring high in subject such as Maths and Science, I was horrible at the subjects that required one to “study” for them. And even though I find writing absolutely enjoyable now, it was not so when I was in school. My teachers made me [...]
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Tags: Beyond Borders, Colombo, Education, Identity, Reform, Social Change, Sri Lanka
BB on Citizen’s Journalism
YaTV’s Sri Lanka Today program featured this blog and others on a segment of Citizen’s journalism.
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Tags: Activism, Blogger, Citizen's Journalism, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Youth
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 [...]
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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
K. Guruparan — a BB-ite, father of the Sri Lankan Youth Parliament and well-known youth activist, spoke at a regional youth conference on youth organized by International Alert, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Youth.
Below is a synopsis of the comments he made as reported on the Bottomline newspaper.
The disillusionment of the youth [...]
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Tags: Colombo, Conference, Conflict, Government, Policy, Sri Lanka, Youth Policy
Lahore
Cartoon by Bottomline, uploaded by Pebotuwa
Dead men on pitches,
Bullet wounds for scores–
‘Is this the new cricket?’
The gentlemen groaned.
They stopped wearing chest guards,
And switched to bullet proof vests–
They stopped looking at the ball,
In order to drop down just in case–
‘They’ll all be bowled for a duck!’
The fans screamed in the stands–
But the players, didn’t give [...]
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Tags: Beyond Borders, Cricket, Lahore, Pakistan, Poetry, Sri Lanka, Terrorism
On Independence
Talking to the YaTV Sri Lanka-Today programme, BB-ites Dinidu De Alwis and Sachith Vidanapathirana offer their perspectives on the independence day.
The Talk touches on issues such as democracy, economic freedom and individual liberty, development and a whole host of other things. The relevant clips are included below. The full program is available on youtube (part [...]
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Tags: Colombo, Democracy, Development, Economic Freedom, Independence Day, Individual Liberty, Sri Lanka
Thoughts on Abortion
The post about abortion we had some time ago, continues to attract comments. We thought this latest one from Sanaman is interesting:
First, “established social structures” were formed by white men who wanted to exercise control over everything including women’s bodies. These oppressive and sexist practices transcended geographical borders, becoming the corollary aspects of colonialism, taking shape [...]
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Tags: Abortion, Sex education, Sri Lanka
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