Former Commander-in-Chief and ex-President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s inadequate defence of the war-winning armed forces underscores the failure on the part of successive governments to address war crimes...
A Melancholic Song for Public Education and Social Enlightenment by Liyanage Amarakeerthi Guru Geethaya , the song of a teacher, the Sinhala version of Chingiz Aitmatov’s...
By Lynn Ockersz She and He have stood their ground, In factories and farms down the ages, Braving the lashings of manor and nature, Invisible yet...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Since the mid-1970s this country has seen so much bloodshed, beginning with the cold blooded killing of SLFP Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah on...
By Lynn Ockersz Ill-concealed by the sands of time, Skeletons continue to scramble out, Telling inconvenient, face-reddening truths, Of smoking guns never brought to justice, Of...
by Shiran Illanperuma On 17 February, President Dissanayake delivered his maiden budget speech. The second reading was passed by a majority of votes on 25 February,...
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in his capacity as Defence Minister, last week reiterated his government’s commitment to downsize the Army to 100,000 by 2030. Dissanayake, who...
Against the backdrop of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananda Wijeyapala’s declaration in Parliament of a nexus between the underworld and some sections of the...
By Gamini Jayaweera In 1985, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who assumed the presidency of the USSR, sought to reform the Soviet Union’s centrally planned economic...
By Lynn Ockersz He was your regular breadwinner; Doing his daily routine, prayer-like, Rushing through his scrap breakfast, And setting off for state sector chores, His...