Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera “Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is ...

Photos courtesy of Sakuna Gamage August 5 was not just another date in Sri Lanka’s calendar. It was a moment when the nation ...

Photo courtesy of Atlantic Council When US President Donald Trump arrogantly suggested that the neighbouring Arab States ...

While striving toward its development goals, Sri Lanka must adopt sustainable measures to minimise carbon emissions.

UNSILENCED is a compelling and vital documentary that successfully situates the life of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam within the turbulent history of the Sri Lankan conflict. Its greatest achievement is ...

otion Array Within months of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake lifting the import ban on private vehicles, Colombo’s streets ...

Prosterman in 1976 estimated that some 68 million people have perished from all forms of deliberate human violence from 1820 to 1970. Zimmerman in 2013 found that if the victims of state violence ...

In the aftermath of the defeat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka, many expected the government to put forward the promised political solution to the problems of the Tamils which led to the war. Those who ...

Guardian In Dr. Punsara Amarasinghe’s article, Creeping Rise of Anti-Semitism is Dangerous for Sri Lanka, he claims that Sri Lanka is witnessing a dangerous rise in anti-Semitism driven by ...

Image courtesy DBS Jeyaraj Introduction President Jayewardene did not like the word ‘colonisation’. Instead, he preferred the terms ‘land settlement’. But the Land Settlement Ordinance uses ...

Photo courtesy National Fisheries Solidarity Movement In 2011, a young Advanced Level student from Mullikulam in the district of Mannar, living as an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) in a camp in ...

At this moment in Sri Lanka, ‘the abortion debate’ has sprung up once again; with the cabinet purportedly attempting to pass a bill which would legalize abortions for women under two circumstances[1] ...