When Lonely Planet named Jaffna the second-best destination in the world for 2026, it wasn’t a surprise to anyone who has walked along the city’s sun-drenched causeways or shared a crab curry under ...

For decades, Sri Lankans have heard the same promise from every new government — “We will eliminate the underworld and end the drug menace.” Presidents, Prime Ministers, Ministers of National Security ...

Give the devil its due, they say. Donald Trump deserves a few words of praise at least for instituting a pause rather than a ceasefire in Gaza. After two years of ceaseless bombing, genocide and ...

Auschwitz was the place where Adolf Hitler’s regime led the world into a war of madness and murdered over six million Jews, along with millions of others. The place we walked through together, silent ...

September saw anniversaries in the chilling deaths of two democratically elected Socialist heads of state during the United States’ led Cold War anti-communist crusade that unfolded across the world ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s recent visits to India and Japan have received considerable attention both at home and abroad. They mark a new phase in Sri Lanka’s foreign policy positioning, ...

When Singapore refused to extradite former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran in early 2025, the headlines called it a diplomatic failure. But that’s the wrong diagnosis. What we witnessed was not ...

In my July 2025 article, “The IMF Is a Bandage, Not a Cure — Moving Toward Lasting Solutions,” I concluded that President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s bold decision not to seek another IMF bailout marks ...

More than a year has passed since the National People’s Power (NPP) government came into office, yet many of Sri Lanka’s long-standing political and constitutional issues remain unresolved. The ...

Since 1980s when Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) entered the country’s political arena Muslim politics and Muslim culture began to develop a symbiotic relationship to strengthen the community’s ...

At the core of President Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan—and central to Israeli demands—is the disarmament of Hamas, formally framed as the “process of demilitarization,” along with the group’s ...

Standing on my balcony facing Station Road, Mount Lavinia, I see hundreds of children walking past our apartment, dressed in crisp white school uniforms. It is a beautiful sight on a weekday morning.