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...
President Trump has unceremoniously overturned US foreign policy. His decision to deport illegal Indian migrants just ahead of a summit with Premier Narendra Modi, underscored the...
Insights from Tagore – III by Panduka Karunanayake Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicineand former Director, Staff Development Centre, University of Colombo The 34th J.E....
By Lynn Ockersz You may call it a pilgrimage, This yearly trudge she undertakes, A posy of dainty flowers in hand, To a rock-pile on a...