“The man who sees his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is seen as his native one is already strong....

Three significant events come together in the month of April. The first is the second anniversary of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombing.....

The Easter Sunday bombings of April 21, 2019 and its consequences have caused a profound impact on the body politic of Sri Lanka.

I have been commenting on the UNHRC’s actions on Sri Lanka since 2012 and written 3 books on the subject. In 2018, I worked with Sir Geoffrey Nice QC of the U.K. to file an unprecedented “complaint procedures” petition

Medical doctors and nutritionists agree that food is an important part of our health. What matters is not how much we eat but more so what we eat and how nutritious it is.

The human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka has gathered momentum in proportions not seen earlier and available reports indicate that out of a population of 6000 Wild Elephants-recorded between 2014 until March 2021- Sri Lanka has lost 2087 Elephants an

Pushpika de Silva, the winner of the beauty pageant held in Sri Lanka to pick the island’s representative for the upcoming Mrs World Pageant,

This tribute was written on the Good Friday of 2021, a day that is significant for all Christians and especially for us who.....

Excessive hype would result in excessive hope. Excessive and idealistic hopes would end up in disappointment. This is not something new to Sri Lankans.

Sri Lanka commenced its COVID vaccination programme with much fanfare last January. Frontline healthcare workers....

The government has obtained the Attorney General’s approval for the proscription of 11 Islamic organisations, some of which carry the Thowheed label associated with Wahhabism, an ideology that is accused of promoting extremism.

Revolutions are essential when the democratic paths fail do good to the masses. The 1977 Elections brought the UNP into power and the JR Jayewardene Government opened up the economy.

The conduct of elections to the provincial councils is in the interests of the top brass of the government but fresh political hurdles now stand in the way of it.

Sri Lanka gained independence from the British at the end of World War II that saw the onset of the decolonisation process.

There’s talk of Provincial Council elections. Various parties or rather their leaderships have instructed the respective ranks and files to get ready. A good time, then, to talk of this particular political exercise.

A news item, which is bound to alarm most Sri Lankans was that the Health Ministry had from March 31, temporarily halted its COVID-19 vaccination programme due to the delay in obtaining a sufficient quantity of AstraZeneca vaccines from the Serum Ins

Last year, in November, local teachers of a leading international school in Colombo sent a petition to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over alleged discriminatory treatment being meted out to them.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been beset with political instability since it declared independence from Britain in 1948. Between 1958....

For the third month running now the streets of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, have been battlegrounds.

Its been just over a year since the discovery of the first case of a Covid-19 patient in the country. On January 27, 2020.....

Two years after the Easter Sunday carnage people are left with false hopes and promises. Abrupt compensation schemes, commissions and reports have led to dead ends. Even after arresting 676 people in relation to the deadly series of attacks the gover

Deforestation in several environmentally sensitive areas in the country has been the focus of discussion in the recent past. Wanathawillu, Anawilundawa and Sinharaja have been making headlines since recent times. Allegation and counter allegations be

Great social crisis like the one we are in now, are often explained through narratives and discourses about the past. In other words, there are powerful stories about the past that claim to provide political solutions for current problems and future

The first armed revolt was carried out by the Marxist (JVP) under the leadership of Rohana Wijeweera, a former medical student from a Russian University and a former member of the Communist Party (Chinese Wing), against the Government of Prime Minist

One thing I am sure of – once the world is deemed safe enough for us to go out without masks, the faces we meet won’t look the same. They will be harder, more alert, more egocentric. Even if they don’t carry signs of change outwardly, the owner

We as a country may not be happy about the outcome of the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) resolution adopted on 23rd March 2021.

From Africa to Britain to the US, from Russia to China or from India to Sri Lanka, the unlawful use of force by the Police.....

Both physical and sexual abuse of Women and Children are rising in our beautiful island nation, Sri Lanka. We as a nation with a recorded....