View from the gallery by Saman Indrajith MPs are not strictly divided along party lines in the current parliament, except for the TNA and JVP/NPP. MPs...
By Dinara S. Gunasekera Dinara S. Gunasekera is a Sri Lankan-American industrial scientist and an entrepreneur who has received numerous academic and professional awards and authored...
by Krishantha Prasad Cooray There’s a political poster that’s been splashed on the walls of Colombo. Black letters on a yellow background mean that the author...
by Rajan Philips “Hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.” In one master stroke last Sunday afternoon, the beleaguered American President Joe Biden...
by Rajan Philips R. Sampanthan MP, the accredited Tamil political leader for the last fifteen years, passed away on June 30, 2024. I am late in...
Judge Cannon dismisses Documents (Espionage) case against Trump by Vijaya Chandrasoma The Republican National Convention was held as scheduled from Monday, July 15, in spite of...
Project 2025 – Ominous mandate for Republican agenda by Vijaya Chandrasoma Two weeks have passed since the disastrous CNN debate on June 27, and the news...
(Excerpted from Selected Journalism by HAJ Hulugalle) In 1911 Sir Ponnambalan Ramanathan was elected to the educated Ceylonese seat in the Legislative Council at the age...
-Is it a Machiavellian endeavour? by Dr Nihal Jayawickrama It has been reported that the Government proposes to introduce a Bill to amend the Constitution for...
by R.J. de Silva,Attorney-at-law A pardon is defined in Black’s Law Dictionary ‘as an act of grace’. In the Oxford Dictionary it is defined as an...