[lg policy] The Language Barrier Raisa Wickrematunge RAISA WICKREMATUNGE on 02/27/2019 NO COMMENTS. SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER EMAIL THIS ARTICLE Sitting on Maatram Editor Selvaraja Rajasegar’s desk is a thick envelope containing details of elephant deaths on the railway track. The information took him over a month to receive, because he made the request in Tamil. The response, when it eventually came, was in English. This is not unusual – as someone who requests in Tamil, Maatram’s requests will often only be responded to in a month’s time, if at all. Vikalpa Editor Sampath Samarakoon meanwhile, says that those who file in Sinhala do not face the same barriers. Both Maatram and Vikalpa have been active in applying for information under the Right to Information Act since it was operationalised in 2016. They are colleagues who file requests on similar issues. But their experience of using the Act is very different. This does not just reflect structural issues within the Govern

[Harold Schiffman]

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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