JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Tensions are escalating in Jaffna after S. Sugirthan, chairman of the Valikamam North Pradeshiya Sabha, accused police of attempting to obstruct efforts to reclaim a public road allegedly occupied by Tissa Rajamaha Viharaya, a Buddhist shrine constructed on disputed civilian land in Thaiyiddy. Mr. Sugirthan said he was summoned by Palaly Police and warned to abandon efforts to recover Bhavani Veethi, a road legally belonging to the local council but currently enclosed within

By Jeevan Thiyagaraja From the riots of 1958 to a Charter that awaits— the long arc of a promise made, deferred, and still owed. Language is never merely a tool for communication. It is the vessel through which a person experiences dignity — or its absence. It was this question, left dangerously unanswered, that ignited the riots of July 1958. Decades of armed conflict followed. The path to healing has, in fact, been laid — in Parliament, in the Constitution, and in a Language Charter that n