Asanga Abeyagoonasekera’s latest book is a comprehensive account of international relations in the regions it covers, with particular reference to current rivalries between India and China...
Human–elephant conflict (HEC) in Sri Lanka results in significant loss of human life, elephant deaths, and extensive damage to crops and property. Despite numerous interventions over...
It is fruitless analyzing US President Trump’s reasons for going to war with Iran or the conflicting outcomes he says he is looking to have in...
We (my wife Esther, two children, Frances (two yrs six months) and Richard (six months), and myself left Katunayake airport for Australia at 4.30 pm on...
This is the place to introduce the episode of ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany. “This legendary unifier of post war Germany was at a small hotel...
Nations Trust WNPS Monthly Lecture An overview of the plants & animals on this magical island Thursday 19 March 2026, 6.00 pm, Jasmine Hall, BMICH In...
Late Junius Richard Jayawardene, universally known as “JR”, was a colossal presence on the Sri Lankan political landscape in the second half of the twentieth century....
Scholars who enter politics often lose something of their scholarship; politicians who return to scholarship rarely recover its discipline. Prof. Wiswa Warnapala belonged to that increasingly...
After Minister Athulathmudali’s departure, matters went on in a state of crisis during the whole of September and into mid-October. The Ministry, the Departments and the...
I write to further substantiate my view on the enduring legacy of my beloved Alma Mater, Royal College. In my continued involvement, over an extensive period...