Thamil Makkal Viduthalaip Puligal(TMVP)leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias “Pillaiyaan” is currently being detained and interrogated by the Police over his suspected involvement in the twin assassinations of Tamil National Alliance

The Human Rights Investigation  report on Sri Lanka compiled by the Office of the United Nations  High Commissioner for Human Rights released last month  has revealed  much information about the alleged activities of the Sri Lanka

The long-awaited  UN  report on Sri Lanka compiled by the Office of the United Nations  High Commissioner for Human Rights released last week has predictably evoked much excitement and controversy. 

Karunarathne Jayasuriya popularly known as Karu Jayasuriya was elected unopposed on September 1st 2015 as the Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament.

 National Government is a term that has re-entered the political discourse of the country in a big way and  is very much in  vogue currently. The term National Government  first came into usage  in Ceylon - as Sri Lanka was c

A total of 6,151 candidates from 21 registered political parties and 201 independent groups are contesting the Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections scheduled for August 17, 2015...

Valvettithurai is a place that has figured prominently in the politics of Sri Lankan Tamils.

Election mania  spreads rapidly in the country with Parliamentary polls being scheduled for August 17, 2015, and the Tamil inhabited ....

The Nugegoda Rally demanding the return of Mahinda Rajapaksa to politics was the opening gambit in a planned series...

“My Bonnie lies over the Ocean” was a Scottish folk song quite popular in Sri Lanka in those days.

Sri Lanka’s ebullient Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera is currently in the forefront...

An event of great significance occurred within the sphere of minority community ...

Politicians are a breed  thriving  on publicity – negative or positive. Their preference is to bask in the limelight always. They crave attention almost all the time and love to be the cynosure of all eyes.

?“Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark” is perhaps an apt description of how  the International Workers Day was observed in Sri Lanka on May 1st. Instead of being given pride of place on May Day...

The month of May is significant in the history of the Tamil secessionist armed struggle in Sri Lanka. It was on May 5,  1976, that a section of  militant Sri Lankan Tamil youths re-organized themselves into  an  organization 

The successful passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in Parliament with an overwhelming...

The tenth death anniversary  of  well-known columnist  D.P. Sivaram  who wrote under the  pseudonym  of “Taraki” falls this week.

Friday April 17th was the 99th birth anniversary of Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike who created history as  the world’s first woman Prime Minister. The 55th anniversary of her  being appointed as the then Ceylon’s Premier f

A very effective message regarding the contentious  issue of the National Anthem being sung in Tamil was...

Once upon a time there was a Beautiful Island with wonderful people  that  was  regarded as God’s own country.

The phenomenon of “Traitorization” in Tamil Nationalist Politics has raised its ugly head again.

The Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) was formed in 1949 by a dissident faction....

Tamil National Alliance(TNA) leader Rajavarothayam Sampanthan MP and TNA ...

Leading Politbureau member of Frontline Socialist Party(FSP) Kumar Gunaratnam....

Ten years ago on December 26, 2004 a series of giant  tsunami waves engulfed the coasts  and littoral  areas  in different parts of Sri Lanka.

Fifty years ago on December 3rd 1964 ,Charles Percival de Silva the Minister of Land, Irrigation and Power in the SLFP-LSSP Coalition Government of Prime Minister  Sirima Bandaranaike...

The spectacular  crossover of Senior Minister  Pallewatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena  from the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Government  headed by Mahinda Rajapaksa...

If Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Thiruvengadam Veluppillai Prabhakaran was alive now, he would have celebrated his  60th birth anniversary on November 26th.

Patabendi Don Nandasiri Wijeweera  known to the world at large as Rohana Wijeweera  was killed twenty five years ago on November 13,1989.The  revolutionary leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) or the Peoples Liberation Fron

Karl Marx expanded famously  on  Friedrich Hegel’s remark about “history”occurring twice and stated that history  repeats  firstly as tragedy and secondly as farce.