What better way to express freedom’s heart-cry, Decry decades-long chains that bind, And give oneself wings of swift relief, As is happening now in some restive...
After assassinating the foremost Sri Lankan Tamil political leader and one-time Opposition leader Appapillai Amirthalingam and ex-Jaffna MP Vettivelu Yogeswaran, in July 1989, in Colombo, the...
The sixth volume of the Mahavamsa, covering the period 1978-2010 has been rendered into Tamil by N. Saravanan, a well-known Tamil journalist and activist based in...
The all-embracing august citadel, Which blazed forth a new world order, Promising to protect the earth’s peoples, But built on the embers of big power rivalry,...
CC in dilemma over filling impending vacancies Amidst a simmering row over the controversial move to have Deshabandu Tennakoon as the IGP at the time of...
‘Can Asians Think?’ I want to initiate this essay with several questions. That is, are we, in Sri Lanka and in our region, intellectually subservient to...
It is said that no man steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man. These...
The marooned and mourning mother, Emerging from her cyclone-hit little home, Scrambles wearily onto the rescue boat, Helped smartly by caring, uniformed hands, ‘But wait a...
The failure on the part of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) government to fulfil a plethora of promises given in the run...
Through the Eyes of the Patua: Organised by the Colombo Institute for Human Sciences in collaboration with Millennium Art Contemporary, an interesting and unique exhibition got...