By Lynn Ockersz The once fabled isle has lost its bearings, Amid a storm of rulings and counter-rulings, Allegations and counter-allegations, One eloquent lie matching another…....
We humans are proud of a lot of things, from rocket science to particle accelerators and even to fine poetry, just to mention a few. All...
By Shamindra Ferdinando A smiling Public Security Minister, Sarath Weerasekera, MP, (Colombo District), last Thursday (Dec 3), said he was happy to have his school cadet...
By Uditha Devapriya There were three Bonapartist revolutions in post-independence Sri Lanka. The first was Ranasinghe Premadasa’s election in 1989, the second Mahinda Rajapaksa’s election in...
by Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan The titles of books can be misleading. I recall the surprise of a colleague when she saw me carrying a work...
Sabitri demonstrates walking upstream during an actor training workshop at NSD, 2010. Photo credit Saumya Liyanage. by Dr Saumya Liyanage Victor Thoudam, one of my...
A political history of post-1977 Sri Lanka (Part I) By Uditha Devapriya Viewed in retrospect, the yahapalanaya regime seems almost a bad memory now, best forgotten....
By Lynn Ockersz Prison breaks make it to the front page, But for the people of the Nodding Land, There’s this different take: Strong iron bars...
Polonnaruwa District MP Maithripala Sirisena leaving P CoI recently By Shamindra Ferdinando Many an eyebrow was raised when Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, intervened in...
The LTTE ordered protests in Europe and Canada in 2009 in a bid to pressure Sri Lanka to halt the military offensive on the Vanni east...
