by Tamara Kunanayakam On 8 October this year, the Cabinet media spokesman Vijitha Herath announced the new JVP/NPP Government’s decision to “strongly reject” the US-UK draft...
Transforming Sri Lanka’s Plantation Sector: by Lalin I De Silva Sri Lanka’s plantation industry, once a vital economic driver, is now at a crossroads due to...
by Rajan Philips Donald Trump did not simply win a second presidential election. He crushed Kamala Harris and the top-down electoral coalition that she was hurriedly...
(Excerpted from Rendering Unto Caesar by Bradman Weerakoon, Secretary to the Prime Minister) Mr Bandaranaike was to address the UN General Assembly sessions in the first...
Anticipating Kamala Harris winning the US presidency, the original title of my article was The Woman Behind the 47th President of the United States. Most unfortunately...
(Excerpted from Falling Leaves, an anthology of autobiographical anecdotes by LC Arulpragasam) This is not meant to be a history of the colonial years, but rather...
by Shyamala Abeyratne When my son was 11 years old and in middle school, he chose to write about his grandfather, starting his essay with the...
by Dr. Upatissa Pethiyagoda Whether the participation of monks in representative politics is permissible (or proper), has been a matter of periodic discourse in the media....
By Avishka Mario Senewiratne Seventy-four years ago, Fr. Peter A. Pillai OMI, a distinguished educationist and the Rector of St. Joseph’s College, proposed the groundbreaking idea...
(Excerpted from the autobiography of MDD Pieris, Secretary to the Prime Minister) Senior public officials have often to act as buffers between ministers, other important political...