Regular revelations, pertaining to high profile scams that had undermined revenue collection, underline the pathetic failure on the part of Parliament to ensure financial discipline. The...
By Lynn Ockersz Lo, the cruelest contradictions, Come chiming-in at year-end, With frenetic shopping peaking, Amid the chatter of cash machines, And make-believe winter fantasies, But...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Narendra Fernando, Sergeant-at-Arms of the crisis-ridden Parliament, has declared that the largest number of students, in the post-independence era, visited the House on...
by Kalinga Tudor Silva The current crisis in Sri Lanka is multi-faceted with economic, political, and social aspects impinging on one another. The economic and political...
By Lynn Ockersz In the fabled Isle, Said to have been blessed, With all things elevating, No sleep is lost now, On which comes first, ‘Bread...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Having comfortably won the vote on the Second Reading of 2023 Budget, two days earlier, President Ranil Wickremesinghe, on November 24, dealt with a spate...
By Lynn Ockersz Defiant hearts throng the streets, Tugging tirelessly at their chains, Taking on the Iron Fist face-to-face, Which cannot afford to relent, Since for...
by Fr J.C. Pieris It is vitally important to value our freedom more than anything else, as Patrick Henry did and declared: “Give me liberty or...
Indian Premier Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Jaffna Cultural Centre, in March 2015, two months after the change of government...
Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children: by Laleen Jayamanne “Like the war to nourish you? Have to feed it something too.” Mother Courage Chaplin on Seeing...