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 ...

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

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 ...

Many may not know that, when 5th September 2015 dawns, it will be 25 years of waiting for 158 families, who ‘lost’ a member or two on that day of 5th September 1990 from the VANTHARUMOOLAI REFUGEE ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This is an account of one project, in one place, at one moment, and it should be read that way. Fifty-one families now have ...