“They were careless people… They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people ...

This is our Lenten Season. By my father’s regimen, we had at home fish and no meat on Lenten weekdays and not even fish on Fridays. But Sunday was feast day. The vegetarian Nallur Bhavan gives good ...

The world that supports the Rule-Based International Order anticipates a bold new foreign aid strategy from the Trump administration. Sri Lanka, given its pivotal geo-strategic location within the ...

While former President Ranil Wickremesinghe ‘s name could not be divorced from the subject, his culpability, his alleged guilt and his alleged vicarious involvement in the cruel acts committed upon ...

However, those angry words of that Palestinian mother quoted above might as well be rephrased as “Wake up Muslims! Shame on you”. Almost one quarter of world population today are Muslims and almost ...

The recent appointment of the Tourism Advisory Committee by the NPP government has sparked discussion within Sri Lanka’s tourism industry. While the move has been widely publicized, many questions ...

In any other country, the doctors would have decided to unite with the State in its search for the perpetrator, an effort which becomes more effective if supported by the public. The State (the police ...

ආණ්ඩුව සිටින්නේ ඉබි ගමනකය. විපක්ෂය සිටින්නේ සිහින ලෝකයකය. පුරවැසියන් ලෙස අපට දෙයියන්ගේම පිහිටය. හුදු කල් මරනවා විනා කැපී පෙනෙන වැඩ කොටසක් ඉටු වන බවක් පෙනෙන්නට නැත. එහෙමයි කියා එළඹෙන ඡන්දයේ දී මිනිසුන් ...

When Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country in 2022 – amidst mass protests and an economic crisis– parliament elected veteran politician and six-time Prime Minister Ranil ...

Emerging world economic order. The emerging world economic order – now tagged as Trumporder after its initiator – has turned the economic policy package advocated by IMF and W ...

Sri Lanka’s 2025 budget, presented by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, aims to drive economic recovery and fiscal consolidation following a severe financial crisis. The budget targets a deficit of ...

The ‘Common Man’ was hiding on his own ‘free’ will; Independence of the country may have brought its celebratory social delectables to the pukka sahibs in Colombo; yet its profound sense and ...