Employees working for the Government service are often referred to as Government servants but in reality they are public servants because they are expected to serve the people sincerely, sacrificially and selflessly.

The forest cover of Sri Lanka which stood at 50% in 1949 is today reduced to 18%. Last November Minister of Agriculture, Wild Life and Forest Conservation Mahinda Amaraweera.....

Yesterday’s virtual BRICS summit, when seen against the backdrop of the Quad leaders’ gathering in Tokyo a month ago, not only explains India’s diplomatic manoeuvres and power-political....

The current economic crisis is known to be the worst economic crisis the country has seen since independence. Many experts have pointed out that one of the reasons for this is the tax cuts introduced in 2019. “Coupled with....

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the worst President we’ve had. He is the worst leader, counting all presidents, prime ministers, ministers, chairpersons of local government authorities and maranaadhara samithi. He is the worst Sri Lankan ever. Let’s assume

“How often the great interests of society are sacrificed to the vanity, to the conceit and to the obstinacy of individuals” Alexander Hamilton

The death of a two day old infant reported from Diyatalawa during mid-May sent shock waves across social media platforms.

Ceylon was known as the pearl in the Indian Ocean in ancient times and as well as at present. Hence, it was known to other countries for centuries. We have 2500 years of written history and that was one of the developed civilizations in Asia.

Whenever the Lankans have been at a seemingly bottomless pit of despair, it has been cricket that has helped the nation, irrespective of race, ethnicity or religion raise its collective head.

Tudor Rajapaksa’s vegetable plot is now a centre of attraction at GotaGoGama. A variety of plants from red spinach to curry leaves, lime, pandan leaves have already been planted on his plot.

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has caused immediate uncertainties regarding whether (a) required food supplies are and will be available,

Clashes at filling stations and at cooking gas distributing centres are increasing with the heightening uncertainty over the fuel and gas supply in the near future. The number of reports of police and the army using firearms to control the angry mobs

Those who have followed this column might know that I have regularly expressed strong reservations about Gotabaya

The SLPP Parliamentarian, Chairman of the Parliamentary oversight committee - the Committee on Public Finance (C

The proposed 21 st. Constitutional Amendment (21A), which is meant to reduce the powers of the Executive President and e

The protest at Galle Face is continuing despite President Gotabaya Rajapaksa refusing to step down. Rev. Fr. Jeewantha Peiris is a key figure in the struggle at Galle Face....

On Sunday last, we were told how senior journalist of the Daily Mirror Jamila Hussein was allegedly prevented carrying out her duties by a section of the protestors outside the home.....

All eyes are on the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). But why now and what is at stake for the working people? I address below the dangers of privatising CEB, the IMF’s push for market pricing electricity....

Let me rewind back to my boyhood when I first read the fable about the scorpion and frog which I believe is of Russian origin.

The remark by former Finance Minister and the National Organiser of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) at his farewell press briefing that those who voted for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the present government was also responsible for the cu

With the main Aragalaya or public revolt continuing for the third month against what the Rajapaksas wanted to build up as a family-government,

The genesis of the slogan demanding 225 clean and virtuous Members in Parliament has a long political history. In the 4th century B.C. Aristotle in “The Politics”, argued that if it is inevitable that not all.....

Sri Lanka is seeing the first signs of some sections of the community thinking of whether the ‘neighbour’ had his or her meal. Just the other day ‘Sarvodaya’ together with ‘Singularity Sri Lanka’ organised....

The 16th-century British philosopher Thomas Hobbes had a negative view of human nature. Human beings are, by nature bad, the pessimistic thinker believed. Hobbes said people were.....

In the midst of an unprecedented economic and political crisis, the NPP’s approach has resonated with many who blame the wrong policies followed by the two main political parties for the last 74 years.....

‘Upasakamma ipaduna heena kule…’ (Translatable as ‘[of] the devout mother who was born into a lower caste…’) is one of the songs in Nanda Malini’s ‘radical’ album ‘Pawana (The wind).

The past couple of weeks have been significant judicially and politically when considering the number of related events that took place during that period.

This week, Sri Lanka joined a growing list of countries experimenting with the four-day workweek, but for very different reasons.

Be it Al Capone, Pablo Escobar, El Chapo or any other crime boss, violence in the form of shootings or any other crime that happens with the blessings of drug lords,

Philosophers and theologians have described the family as a domestic temple, church, mosque or other sacred place because.....