Wrote a piece for today’s Sunday Leader called Cowards of Colombo. It’s about the choking apathy of this city, and how we need to wake up. Actually, apathy I don’t even mind, it’s about this city which complains yet does not act. I think we need to put our money and our time ...

Image from Collected Works of Geoffrey Bawa, one coffee table book fully worth buying Sri Lanka’s government is way too big to ever get smaller. The worst example is the Jumbo Cabinet, which will be politically impossible to shrink. The only solution is to make the Cabinet bigger. Make every m...

Buddhi From Wagon Park, Representing Moratuwa from Indrajit Samarajiva on Vimeo. This one wasn’t magic, till the very end. The thing about open mics is that they can be boring, but then you get stuff that really surprises you. This time, at the very end of the night - when many people had left...

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has urged the International Cricket Council not to rush to a decision on moving the 2011 World Cup out of the Asian country....

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt admits it will be impossible to force teams to visit the country any time soon....

…from terrorists.” Imran Khan said he knew this for a fact because… Terrorists rely on support from the masses because that’s where they get their recruits, and cricket is a game which is so loved and there’s such passion in Pakistan, that the terrorists know that if a ...

Dr. Nagaratnam Ranjithan has spent decades building a thriving medical practice in Maryland as a kidney specialist. Federal authorities say he has also helped finance Asian death squads. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Treasury Department froze the assets of Ranjithan’s Tamil Foundation, alleging that the...

Coming to a Stadium near You: A brazen attack this morning on a cricket team from Sri Lanka killed six police officers and a driver in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore. Seven players were injured, but none was killed. The assault was among the worst armed attacks on a sports team since Palest...

Another highly organized Islamic terror attack in Pakistan, as a team of killers attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team, with tactics similar to the Mumbai terrorists. In a commando-style operation, a dozen gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in the heart of Lahore, Pakistan’s cultural a...

Saturday: Torn between some stunning evidence and a desire not to annoy people planning their Sunday around this—of which there are probably thousands—we forge ahead. With something that is most certainly not a Wisconsin liveblog. In fact, it is the precise opposite of a Wisconsin liveblog. We a...