P. Saravanamuttu

@dbsjeyaraj I have been saying this for some time and to Jeevan too

The“Northern Gateway”Initiative transforms the Northern Province into an economic powerhouse.By leveraging its proximity to the trillion-dollar economy of South India,the North can pioneer a Sub-national Economic Corridor By Jeevan Thiagarajah dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/?p=87200

Non-inclusion of women and civil society on Rebuilding Sri Lanka is disgraceful and insulting!

Basic History for the Uninformed: 1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state. 2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state. 4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state. 5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Crusader Frankish and the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state. 6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there were the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state. 7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state. 8. there was the Sassanid-Persian Empire before the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 9. Before the Sassanid-Persian Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire again, not a Palestinian state. 10. there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state, before the Byzantine Empire. 11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Jewish Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state. 12. Before the Jewish Hasmonean state was the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, not a Palestinian state. 13. Before the Hellenistic Seleucid empire, there was Alexander the Great's empire, not a Palestinian state. 14. Before Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 16. Before the Babylonian Empire, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were not Palestinian states. 17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 18. Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. There have been many governments there, but never a Palestine.

@aarudpra Congratulations!

Happy to have been named an Open Society Fellow for 2025-2026 & to continue research and writing at the intersection of climate, environment & development in #SriLanka’s North.

@OpenSociety Congratulations!!

Congratulations to the 2025 Open Society Fellows! The fellows are a group of 31 public intellectuals from seven global cities who will help shape global conversations on the most pressing issues of our time: Beirut 🇱🇧 Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 Colombo 🇱🇰 Dar es Salaam 🇹🇿 Jakarta 🇮🇩 Lagos 🇳🇬 Taipei 🇹🇼 The fellows bring innovative approaches to fundamental open society concerns including the state of democracy, the climate crisis, journalism, digital finance, nationalist movements, urbanism, migration, and more.

Almost two centuries have passed since the Tamil Malaiyaha communities were brought to Sri Lanka. Since then, they have been contributing to the Sri Lankan economy, especially through the labour they provide to the tea industry in Sri Lanka to flourish. Despite their great contributions, these communities were never given significance, their rights were dismissed, their access to basic living standards were taken away. Yet, they were obliged to toil among the tea estates at a cheap wage. @yudhee_k | @CeylonToday . ceylontoday.lk/2025/06/27/200…

@SriLankanEye @groundviews @MaatramSL @vikalpavoices Do tell why?

@SriLankanEye @groundviews @MaatramSL @vikalpavoices What is the issue here? If Sri Lankans gave money for governance and human rights civil society organizations would not have to seek foreign funding. Yes, CPA has its own agenda for governance. Human Rights and Transitional Justice iand we go to funders to fund our work,

🇱🇰 Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, head of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) shamelessly and openly admits that USAID has funded court cases (!!) and articles on @groundviews, @MaatramSL and @vikalpavoices Original tweets: tinyurl.com/2vt7mrsa #SLnews #Colombo #Sinhala

@SriLankanEye @groundviews @MaatramSL @vikalpavoices Love to know who you are? What is your name? Why don’t you post in it?

@PSaravanamuttu @groundviews @MaatramSL @vikalpavoices You're basically the USA's bitch. Of course, it would be no issue to you as you make a living from their "aid" money. x.com/SriLankanEye/s…

@SriLankanEye @groundviews @MaatramSL @vikalpavoices And you? Whose bitch are you?!!

@SriLankanEye @groundviews @MaatramSL @vikalpavoices Where is the evidence for the accusation of articles in Groundviews being paid for

@SriLankanEye @groundviews @MaatramSL @vikalpavoices CPA has its own agenda for governance and takes donor money only if their interests coincides with ours. These shrill and hysterical denunciations do not know the facts , are baseless and ignorant. Wonder who funds them ?

With President and AI Sec-General

Do join my colleagues @SRajasegar & @sampathslk to launch this important initiative & discuss a topic confronted by thousands in #SriLanka with no meaningful reckoning #disappearances @MaatramSL @vikalpavoices

අතුරුදහන් කරන ලද සමීපතමයන්ගේ මතකය අමතක කිරීමට බල කරන රාජ්‍යක, ඔවුන්ගේ මතකයන් සමග සත්‍ය සහ යුක්තිය සොයා යන ගමන් ගැන සාකච්ඡාවක්, ඒ වෙනුවෙන් වූ ඔබේ අදහස් සමග එක්වන්න. 👇 Org: @MaatramSL #srilanka #Justice #Life

Memories of loved ones: A virtual memorial - webpage launch Relatives of the forcibly disappeared share stories of the belongings that remind them of their loved ones. Date: 30th March 2024 Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm (LK) Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/82703615696?… #lka #SriLanka

Report on Understanding Interconnections between #HumanRights and #EconomicCrimes in #SriLanka is live on the CPA website! Examine the link between economic crimes by PEPs and human rights, with strategies to combat #Impunity. . wp.me/p36loV-1WA