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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is often said that there can be many fathers to victory, but no one takes responsibility for defeat. That saying perfectly applies to the story of how commercial whale watching began in Sri Lanka.

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 ...

In contrast to intolerance in governance and towards others who are deemed to be outsiders that is increasingly being manifested in the world, Sri Lanka is taking a different path. It is adopting an ...

“Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.” ~ Joseph ...

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 ...

“BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS,” President Donald Trump exclaimed in ALL CAPS in his social media post from the White House, just before 7:00 PM on Wednesday, 8 th October. He was announcing 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 ...

‘Operation Colombo’ in Santiago de Chile in 1972, reverberated with the same Disinformation that unfolded across Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, who was like Prime Minister ...