by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jan 18, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Today’s Sri Lanka is the ancient land of Serendip, which gave rise to the modern English word serendipity. Sri Lanka is still a stunningly beautiful island surrounded by white sand beaches that rise up through tropical forests into blue...
by raffaellopantucci | Dec 7, 2015 | Monitor
My contribution in the excellent magazine Prospect to the public conversation in the UK last week about bombing Syria in the wake of this week’s parliamentary vote. It tries to explore what exactly kinetic military campaigns can do to counter terrroist...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jan 20, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Take a good look at the photo of Mahinda Rajapaksa, the two term president of Sri Lanka who called a snap election, expecting to win by a landslide, then lost, decisively. Note the aggressive mustache, the arched eyebrows, the bug eyes. Shift...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 6, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Buddhist mobs have been killing Muslims in Myanmar. Where’s the outrage? Why aren’t all major Buddhist leaders, those supposed paragons of compassion, loudly, unequivocally, calling for a halt to it? Why aren’t Buddhist practitioners world wide...
