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 ...

At the time of independence from colonial rule in 1948, Ceylon was foisted with a unitary type constitution with simple majoritarian rule. In 1949 a sizeable number of Tamils of recent Indian origin ...

To many non-Muslims, the existence of an Islamic community on the island of Sri Lanka may be surprising. Sri Lanka has been known for the past three decades as the scene of an atrocious civil war. Its ...

A few years ago someone came up with the campaign line ‘small miracle’ as a unique proposition to promote Sri Lanka to tourists. The Rajapaksa Government took exception to the ‘small’ and scrapped the ...

The case of 32 schoolboys from Embilipitiya, which came at the tail end of mass disappearances in the late 1980s, brought poignantly to the outside world the shocking depths of brutality to which this ...

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak a few words today. I think this is an important topic which requires debate and discussion in our society and I am very appreciative of CEPA’s ...

University lecturers of the entire state sector university system in Sri Lanka except the universities of Kelaniya and Uva Wellasa have been on a continuous strike since 4 th July under the leadership ...

The controversial Colombo Port City (CPC) project, which has been designed to reclaim the seabed and develop a large commercial centre in an area covering 230 hectares adjacent to the city of Colombo, ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has accepted a new definition for the word literally – and it’s not the only word changing beyond recognition. It’s enough to, like, make one despair It is literally the ...

The claims made by the Government and the Police in the weeks following the assassination on 23rd April 1993, as we had averred before, aroused public incredulity and indignation. Amarasena Rajapakse, ...