By Lynn Ockersz He stormed the bastions of power, With sharp ideas and a golden pen, Exposing their foundations of sand, Cutting through shams and hypocrisies,...
Authorities still unable to restore disrupted passport supply Text and pic By Shamindra Ferdinando The National People’s Power (NPP) government hasn’t been able to normalize the...
By Lynn Ockersz Vicious tongues of fire, Are laying the land waste, Reducing to smoking ruins, Everything almost in their way, Be they larger-than-life celebrities, Glitzy...
The issue of academic freedom is back in the conversation circuit in Sri Lanka, particularly on social media. And as usual in circumambience involving academic freedom,...
by Professor Athula Sumathipala Two elections went without much fuss unlike in the past, particularly without any post-election violence. The new cabinet of ministers have sworn...
By Shamindra Ferdinando On the eve of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Shavendra Silva’s retirement, Defence Secretary Air Vice Marshal (retd.) Sampath Thuyacontha declared the...
By Lynn Ockersz ‘The World’s Mightiest Democracy’, In star-gazing tycoons has kept its faith, Hoping that the ‘trickle-down-theory’, Would somehow take full effect, And that the...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Senior lecturer in economics and head of the IT Department at the University of Colombo, Professor Priyanga Dunusinghe, recently declared that the new...
BY Saumya Liyanage (Text of a keynote address delivered at the annual Diploma Certificate Award Ceremony, organised by the National Photographic Art Society, Sri Lanka, on...
Ambassador Majintha Jayasinghe, on Dec, 12, presented his Letters of Credence to Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Jayasinghe...