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 ...
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 ...
In his Prelude to The Undying Light A Personal History of Independent India, Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Gopal to his friends) shares with his readers how and why this tome came to be written. The text of ...
The Mothers’ Association for the Missing has now, for almost 6 years, continued their struggle for the missing in Jaffna, and national-level organisations have also been following various incidents ...
The executive presidency introduced under J. R. Jayewardene was designed to provide political stability, decisiveness and ...
The month of August lived up to the caption of “the living, dead and disappeared.” The month saw the end of the 10-day Kandy Esala Perahera festival in all its glory. The festival is organized by the ...