“A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.” — H.L. Mencken Summary During a recent...
The elderly poor are the worst hit, In the stormy Isle’s rising food crisis, And unsurprised should we be to find, Many of them hitting the...
Regime change: Gemunu Watch veteran retired Maj. Gen. K.B. Egodawele painted a bleak picture of the overall failure on the part of the Defence Ministry, National...
Tripitaka was first recorded on palm leaves. Religious histories such as Mahavamsa and Tupavamsa were also written on palm leaves. The printed texts we read today, of...
A peaceful counter-revolution is taking shape, Against current ‘Digital Age’ intoxications, At that ever-green seat of higher learning, Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge, Where...
Iranian Ambassador in Colombo Dr. Alireza Delkhosh says the Islamic Republic of Iran remains fully prepared to face US-Israeli aggression. In an interview with The Island...
‘Aragalaya’ betrayed? ‘The treason of the intellectuals’ in the age of populism – Part III The JVP/NPP government, which relied heavily on social media to come...
Cutting across the brooding greenery, Of the big city’s outlying wetlands, That are verily its purifying lungs, Are roads less traveled and sought, That teem with...
The US has been complicit in the 9 July 2022 assault on the President’s House. A new book, on the regime change project, by renowned political...
Sirancee Gunawardena, the author of ‘Palm leaf manuscripts of Sri Lanka ‘(1977) met J. Pannila of Artigala south, Hanwella when she was researching palm leaf manuscripts....