A steady influx of Sri Lankan Tamils, seeking better life in Europe, Scandinavian countries, and Canada, gave the Diaspora wherewithal to pressure foreign political parties. The...
(This is based on the introduction to the forthcoming volume Sri Lanka’s Defence Policy since Independence and the Shifting Balance of Power in the Indian Ocean,...
They have waited these long decades, Since the burning taint of ‘July 1983’, When lurking race hate erupted in flames, And ones held dear departed in...
Things are getting ‘curiouser and curiouser’ The National People’s Power (NPP) government is under intense public scrutiny. The recent appointment of retired Commodore M.B.N.A. Premarathne as...
As mathematics has been developed to solve problems faced by our cultures, many words that are being used in mathematics have been borrowed from our spoken...
In February 2024, during the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration, an IMF technical assistance team visited Sri Lanka at the request of the SL government, to help it...
The memorial that stood its ground, In the North’s desolate wastes, Pointing in a vastly different direction, Has been brutally decapitated, By those fazed in a...
Hundreds of Palestinians died in the recent past while trying to obtain food in the Gaza strip. Al Jazeera, in a 05 July, 2025, online report,...
(Part 1 of this article was published in Midweek Review on 25 June 2025.) French sculptor and painter Marcel Duchamp say, “a Masterpiece is created by...
Deshamanya Bradman Weerakoon, Whose absence will be keenly felt, Chose simplicity as his forte, And skipped the glare of cheap publicity, Instead worked silently behind the...