Seventeen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, the latest report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...

Two years ago, Sri Lankan voters did not merely elect a new government. They voted for a political transformation. The ...

We speak of 78 years of “self-rule.” But honesty demands we ask: what kind of rule have we actually had? It was not democracy ...

There is a fundamental difference between Ayurveda and the Western medical system. Therefore, judging the two by exactly the ...

Three different groups of Tamil forces led by three different Vanni chieftains converged on the Mullaitivu fort this day 210 years ago with their forces, their intention was to liberate Vanni by ...

Relying heavily on fossil-fuel thermal plants to survive a drought creates a direct macroeconomic emergency. Sri Lanka does ...

This week, the country-wide acquiring of lands by the State in pursuit of its militarization cum post-war tourism goals came starkly into focus when journalists trying to take photographs of civilian ...

A recent book, ‘Ritual and Recovery in Post-conflict Sri Lanka,’ by Jane Derges, provides an ethnographic account of the performances of Hindu rituals that serve to recover some old, less ubiquitous ...

Behind the Rotary Foundation’s Cyclone Ditwah Response Fund sits the Rotary global grant mechanism. It was built precisely to ...

Nepal was bracing for Super El Niño. Then it got hit by a two thousand feet wide glacier collapse way up in the Himalayas ...

The executive presidency introduced under J. R. Jayewardene was designed to provide political stability, decisiveness and ...

It is with a deep sense of sadness that I record the passing of Dr Upatissa Pethiyagoda, who died on 27 August 2026 at the age of 94. To many, he was a distinguished scientist, an accomplished ...