They are on a leisurely uphill crawl, These shiny, cumbrous city cars, Beholding in goggle-eyed wonder, Snow gathering on mountain tops, Imagining a once-in-a-lifetime photo-op, But...
Humour and the Creation of Community: “As melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness, so humour is comedy that has lost its bodily weight”. Italo...
With a quiet, watchful eye, The winged natives of the sedate lake, Have regained their lives of joyful rest, Following a storm’s battering ram thrust, Singing...
A day after the UN freshly repeated the allegation this week that sexual violence had been “part of a deliberate, widespread, and systemic pattern of violations”...
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland on 26 December, 2025, couldn’t have taken place without US approval. The establishment of full diplomatic ties with Somaliland, a breakaway part...
Seeing a new kind of head ornament on a recent reproduction of the iconic Avukana Buddha statue, made me ponder how the Enlightened One would have...
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,...