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Round table on India-Sri Lanka Relations

Experts and scholars from Pathfinder Foundation, Sri Lanka and members of VIF Faculty discussed a broad range of bilateral issues between India and Sri Lanka on 09 December 2014. The Sri Lankan team was led by Amb. Bernard Goonetilleke, Chairman, and....

December 15, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka , Interaction , Indian Ocean , India-Sri Lanka relations , Sri Lankan Civil War
Indian Foreign Policy Being Undermined from Within
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The political controversy generated over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s participation in the Commonwealth Summit (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka on November 15 deepens mounting concerns about our foreign policy being increasingly determined not by our overal....

November 15, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
Interaction with H. E. Mr Prasad Kariyawasam

On August 8, 2013, VIF welcomed the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, His Excellency Mr. Prasad Kariyawasam for an interaction on various aspects of relations between India and Sri Lanka. Mr. Kariyawasam candidly expressed his views on the c....

August 11, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka , Interaction , Indian Ocean Region , India-Sri Lanka relations , South Asian neighbours , Sri Lankan economy
India, Sri Lanka – The Tamil Question
Dr M N Buch (late)

The island country of Sri Lanka is geographically part of the Indian sub-continent and though the Palk Strait does provide a narrow stretch of water physically separating Sri Lanka from India, not far below the surface is the land link provided by Ra....

March 29, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
Stance on Sri Lanka a Blunder
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Our conduct at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at Geneva on the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka on human rights violations of the tamilian population has raised questions about the coherence, maturity and objectivity of our ....

March 26, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
Anti-Lanka vote was a bad idea
Amb Kanwal Sibal

India has once again joined the US and other western countries to censure Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on the Tamil issue. This is objectionable on many counts. For many years we have fought our own battles w....

March 25, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
The United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution on Sri Lanka, 2013

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March 22, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, UNHRC Resolution and India
Dr N Manoharan

Sri Lanka is facing second successive resolution in as many years at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this month. Exactly last year at the 19th session of the UNHRC, a US-sponsored resolution was passed against the island state. Backed by 24 co....

March 06, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: And Now the Judiciary
Dr N Manoharan

When the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed an order removing the island state’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranaike on 13 January 2013, the consolidation of power was complete. In January 2010, Rajapaksa won the presidency ....

January 26, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
The State of India-Sri Lanka Relations: Ethnic Issue as an Irritant
Dr N Manoharan

In the recent days, the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has figured in at least four issues pertaining to Sri Lanka: protests against training of Sri Lankan defence personnel in the state, threats to Sri Lankan pilgrims touring the state, turning....

September 17, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
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