“Myanmar’s Tamils seek to protect their identity” by Swaminathan Natarajan
“People of Indian origin make up of roughly 2% of Myanmar’s 55-million population, but the experiences of Tamil people – who comprise the largest group – have veered from one extreme to the other in...
View Article“Surge of radical Buddhism in South Asia” by Roma Rajpal Weiss
Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN Dayan Jayatilake insists that the government is not taking concrete measures to curb the activities of extremist Sinhalese Buddhists in the country. “Everybody...
View Article“Muslims Pose A Threat In Sri Lanka”, Ranay Sharma Interviews Galagoda Aththe...
Just like in Burma, the recent years have seen the unrest between the Buddhist majority and the Muslim minority on the upswing in Sri Lanka. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, general secretary of the Sri...
View Article“Hardline Buddhists in Myanmar, Sri Lanka Strike Anti-Islamist Pact” by Voice...
A Myanmar monk accused of inciting violence against Muslims and a hardline Buddhist group in Sri Lanka said on Tuesday they would work together to rally other Buddhist groups and defend their faith...
View Article“The Burmese Indians who never went home” by Anbarasan Ethirajan
A story on Burmese Tamil refugees who were displaced to Manipur, India, following a coup in the 1960s that led to race riots against ‘Indians’. Hundreds of Jaffna Tamils, who were brought to Burma as...
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