Week-01-2025

Marxists commanding a capitalist economy, sluggish growth supporting precocious human development, and rentiers relying on Gulf remittances. No, this isn’t Lanka. It’s Kerala, as sketched-out by Tirthankar Roy and K. Ravi Raman in their new economic history of Kerala.

It’s that time of year again. As they have for over a decade, ministers, diplomats, and activists from Colombo make their annual pilgrimage to the UN in Geneva. Sri Lanka has been on the HRC’s agenda since 2012. But, sixteen years after the end of the war, has the pilgrimage become a farce?

Our Headline on the UNHRC explored the negotiations between majority, minorities, and the international community. The UN film festival’s Friday screening of The Negotiators — How to Make Peace is timely. At the Bawa Space,