Tamil women in Sri Lanka’s plantations are a marginalized lot within the marginalized plantation Tamils, who prefer to be called Hill Country or “Malaiyaha Tamils.” Women do the most critical job in the plantations, plucking tea leaves exactl

Relations between India and Canada have reached their lowest ebb, and relations between the two countries hit rock bottom after Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, in the Canadian parliament claimed there was strong evidence implicating the Indian gover

Our country is becoming or should we say has always been, notorious for the disconnected messages passed on to the public. Even....

The comments and statements highlight the ignorance of certain individuals who cannot distinguish between a cricket ball and a tennis...

The first part of the article titled Who is Hanzeer Azad Maulana the Whistleblower on Channel 4? Was published in these columns last week. Even as I was writing the second part of the article, I received some interesting information about an event in

Two Sri Lankan courts have given two different orders on the commemoration of Rasaiah Parthipan alias Thileepan, the one-time political leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Jaffna who died after a twelve-day fast over five demands

One of Sri Lanka’s most important needs today is the emergence of a statesman of the calibre of Mahatma Gandhi to give our country leadership or guidance, which our leaders will follow.

This is a ‘pearl of a nation’ which looks up to heroes rather than working professionals. We saw the Mahinda Rajapaksa era when people looked up to the former president as a hero and said that they’d survive...

Politics is a killing field where no one is a saint and human rights are a sham. The accuser is no better than the accused. Every country has its share of blood on its hands. Such thoughts may spring to mind....

In a world of international relations defined by power rivalries and shifting alliances, Sri Lanka stands resolute in its pursuit of non-interference in its foreign relations and taking a neutral approach. President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent

On November 28, Prof. Marc Lamont Hill of Temple University delivered a speech at the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It is reported that he used the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’ in his speech. T

Member of Parliament Ms Diana Gamage is often accused of making outrageous suggestions regarding ways and means through which Sri Lanka can raise foreign exchange...

Last week, a wildcat trade union action by the locomotive drivers cost the lives of two commuters and inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of others. A young man who rode on the roof was killed....

While Sri Lanka is facing an unprecedented issue of brain drain accelerated by the current economic crisis and the resultant political uncertainty, the leaders of the country are announcing plans for establishing more Universities. It can only be

Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI /ChatGPT3 speaking at a recent US Senate hearing on AI, warned of serious consequences if this technology goes wrong, increasing joblessness, misinformation, and deepfakes impacting democracies among others. These ar

More than a year after the mass protest movement - the Aragalaya ousted Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his .....

Approximately 28% of the population believes Sri Lanka’s ongoing programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will make.....

Modern public transportation in our country dates back to 1902. The first ever car entered our shores, an 8 HP single cylinder....

The IMF is in town for the first review of its programme launched in March 2023. Some Colombo circles worry whether the so-called IMF....

Britain’s Channel 4 TV aired the documentary Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings in its Dispatches programme on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, at 11. 05 p.m.

Can the committee and the PSC carry out investigations with an open mind after having so many theories on the crime having been spread and deeply rooted

America’s famous Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, wrote a beautiful song about growing old. It goes like this: “You will never grow old, while there’s love in your heart, time may silver your golden hair, as you dre

Sri Lankans are quick to highlight problems associated with grieving or suffering communities by writing or talking about them in media outlets. But seldom do we see any follow-ups being made on these stories....

A new connectivity plan that might compete with or complement China’s One-Belt-One-Road effort or the Belt-and-Road effort (BRI), depending on how geopolitics play out, emerged on the sidelines....

In the wake of the railway strike, which tragically claimed two lives and inconvenienced thousands of passengers and the public, it is time to reflect on the role of trade unions in our country. The ongoing strike, orchestrated by railway trade union

Sri Lanka is entering into a new, dangerous phase in its economic recovery. Although macroeconomic stabilisation has made progress, financial stabilisation needs immediate attention. The combination of covid-era loans and crisis-era loans with high-i

The Channel 4 drama - titled Dispatches is holding our country in thrall. Everybody is talking about it and everybody has...

Channel 4’s latest documentary on the Easter Sunday attack is way too depressing for any Sri Lankan, more so for the survivors ....

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that he would appoint a committee headed by a Supreme Court judge to look into the allegations levelled by Britain’s Channel 4 that the State Intelligence Service Chief Suresh Sallay conspired to engineer the

The Veddas, the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka, were once numerous and lived throughout the island. But they have almost disappeared now, being less than 0.13% of the population according to the last census taken in 2011. Presently, they are confi