By Lynn Ockersz It was forty one years ago, That their homes and dreams, Were put to the torch, And reduced to smoking ruins, By murderous...
During the JVP-led second abortive insurgency, its military wing killed quite a number of people, including politicians. Among the victims were Keerthi Abeywickrema, MP, and actor-turned-politician...
“Revolution, Romance, Femininity and Music”: A response By Sena Thoradeniya Having read about Inessa Armand in the sixties, who was laid to rest in Kremlin Wall...
By Lynn Ockersz The golden-green paddy, Swaying dreamily in the breeze, Flowing into a distant haze, Fathered by labouring hands, And watered by quiet streams, Has...
By Shamindra Ferdinando In the immediate aftermath of the Elephant Pass debacle in late April 2000, the then Army Commander Lt. Gen. Srilal Weerasooriya (Dec 16,...
By Lynn Ockersz On the margins of the secured palace, Withered humans steadily gather, Their eyes on disposable morsels, From the banquets of the mighty, Who...
The TNA (Parliament recognizes TNA as ITAK [Illankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi]) won 22 seats in the Northern and Eastern Provinces under Rajavarothiam Sampanthan’s leadership at the...
By Lynn Ockersz There he sits obediently, The cynosure of all eyes, Contemplative and sad, Yet upright, ready to spring, At the prey that strays, And...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has switched sides again. Fonseka, MP, threw his weight behind UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Presidential Polls campaign as the...
By Lynn Ockersz Politics wasn’t ‘a Stage’, For R. Sampanthan, Nor did he ‘Strut and Fret’, His ‘Hour upon it’, As usually is the case, But...