Hartal ‘53, Bloody- ‘88/89’: Peaceful Aragalaya and Crocodile Tears

The above sentence was an ornament Karl Marx’ added to the beginning of Chapter One of his masterpiece, ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’, which endeavored to explain in elegant style how in times.....

The vision of a multipolar world

With the worldview crisis in Russia’s relations with the West entering a hot phase after the beginning of the Special military operation in February 2022, the future of the world order and principles of international....

Fake news fraud using Prabha and family

Members of a dozen Sri Lankan Tamil families gathered in the evening at the residence of a fellow Tamil in Switzerland in early November 2022.

There’s no such thing as a free meal

On Wednesday (1 March) a number of professional bodies, public sector trade unions, including power, petroleum, water, ports, teachers, university lecturers, bank employees and doctors unions called on their members to protest the new tax regime by taking a variety of trade union actions.

UNP fast eroding its Liberal image for power

If the relevant authorities are to go by what President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament on February 23 about holding Local Government elections that had then been scheduled by the Elections Commission to be held on March 9, those elections have been laid to rest.

Why Govts. don’t want locals to think like foreigners - EDITORIAL

The number of people applying for passports and those leaving the country are of great concern these days. A pastor attached to a popular Christian Life Centre situated in the Western Province was heard....

Huwara terror: Palestinians face worse nightmares

No terrorism is more heinous than the act of condemning the Resistance as terrorism. No sooner the occupied West Bank village of Huwara was raided by marauding Israeli settlers than Israel’s....

Racism: If people can learn to hate, they can be taught to love

Economically and socially, Sri Lanka is in deep trouble and the crisis deepened with yesterday’s general strike by more than 40 trade unions including doctors,

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Where to from here for all of us?

A tumultuous year in Sri Lanka seems to be never ending. The island lurching from one disaster to another. Looking at home from afar, it always gives you the sense that its internally perched on a precipice....

War or peace in Ukraine; Who gains, who loses - EDITORIAL

On Tuesday February 21, at a security conference in Beijing, Qin Gang, the Chinese Foreign Minister told participants, that China was concerned the almost year-long war Russia-Ukraine conflict could spill....

A wake up call to slow down

There are days when you wake up from a sound sleep. Then comes a day when you are woken up by something unexpected.Last week,

Socio-economic roots of teenage pregnancy in Sri Lanka

Colombo, February 27: In Sri Lanka, teenage pregnancy is lower than it is in most other developing countries, including South Asian countries.

Why voters in economic crisis favour demagogues?

If the elections are held now, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) is the likely winner. However, none of the political parties would manage to secure a majority, according to an opinion poll by a local think tank.

A land of impunity

Our sister paper ‘The Sunday Times’ in its latest issue revealed that an independent power producer (IPP),

Centenary of Women’s Cricket Three Johnians in 1st Intl. vs England in 1948

SLC with a record profit of Rs 6.3 billion made in 2022 could easily allocate more funds for developing women’s cricket. Times have....

Our ‘on again, off again’ LG polls - EDITORIAL

On Saturday the media announced that the Elections Commission announced Local Government (LG) elections scheduled for March 9, could not be....

A new conversation on love

February, a month to celebrate love, whether it’s our partner, our parents or our friends.

Ukraine, Palestine and double standards

February the 24th marked the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

If all who were involved in bribery were deprived of Civic Rights…?

Former Deputy Minister Mohamed Musthapha, well known as ‘Myown’ Musthapha was deprived of his Civic Rights for seven years by the Colombo High Court on February 17 for offering Rs. 4,200,000 to National Freedom Front (NFF) MP Mohamed Muzammil during the 2010 Presidential election.

deep concern over situation in the country

The Church of Sri Lanka has protested the Government’s recent action to undermine the democratic rights of the people.

Sri Lanka does have a past when it had rich ideas - EDITORIAL

The attitude in children in the future to study the history and politics of this island might change. People belonging to the older generations studied the history and politics of this nation with interest. They couldn’t help....

Ukraine war, one year on: All we are saying is give peace a chance

Today, the Russia-Ukraine war – call it the Russia-NATO war -- enters its second year. It was on February 24, last year, some 200,000 Russian troops crossed the border and invaded parts of Ukraine. Western....

Laughingstock at the Republic Day

Recently having seen a grand party at the residence of the High Commissioner of India on television, I could not resist my temptation to laugh.

A prophetic voice in the wilderness

In a sarcastic cartoon the social media portrait the focus of the current crisis by quoting a duck saying, “When I was young,

Building a generation of independent Liberal minds

I have had two ways of getting to know about life and thinking of D.R. Wijewardene. One was by reading the writings of people like H.A.J. Hulugalle and Martin Wickramasinghe who have been closely associated with him.

13th Amendment should be implemented in three steps: Douglas

Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda responds to questions from Daily Mirror on the move to implement the 13th Amendment and the fisheries issue involving India and Sri Lanka.

Elections and lessons from the past - EDITORIAL

The last local government elections held in our country in 2018, saw the then newly-formed Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) winning a majority of the seats - 40% of the votes. The current round....

Who wants elections now?

The local government elections ran into not-so-unexpected troubles last week. As things stand now, they will most likely be postponed indefinitely after the government withheld funds to print polling....

IHP SLOTS Voting Intentions January 2023: NPP/JVP-SJB running neck-and-neck: No party dominates

The latest Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey (SLOTS) polling in January 2023 shows the NPP/JVP and SJB running neck-and-neck nationally in General Election voting intentions amongst likely voters....