(Excerpted from Rendering Unto Caesar by Bradman Weerakoon, Secretary to the Prime Minister) Mr Bandaranaike was to address the UN General Assembly sessions in the first...
Anticipating Kamala Harris winning the US presidency, the original title of my article was The Woman Behind the 47th President of the United States. Most unfortunately...
by Dr. Upatissa Pethiyagoda Whether the participation of monks in representative politics is permissible (or proper), has been a matter of periodic discourse in the media....
(Excerpted from the autobiography of MDD Pieris, Secretary to the Prime Minister) Senior public officials have often to act as buffers between ministers, other important political...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma Last Tuesday, one of the most consequential elections in the history of the United States was concluded, with the people deciding, according to...
(Excerpted from Men and Memories by JR Jayewardene) A timetable was worked out between the two governments for signing an Accord based on these proposals to...
By Uditha Devapriya Victory may have many fathers, but defeat isn’t always an orphan. Just 24 hours after Donald Trump was declared as the 47th President...
by Tisaranee Gunasekara “The future is cloth waiting to be cut.” Seamus Heaney (The Burial at Thebes) The point had been made often enough. Without a...
By Uditha Devapriya It has been a month since Anura Kumara Dissanayake assumed the presidency, a month since the NPP claimed its place in history as...
Democracy under threat, as Trump sows doubt on election integrity by Vijaya Chandrasoma President Ronald Reagan, “The Great Communicator” was famous for conceptualizing the American Dream,...