When the civil war came to an end in May 2009, I was still a final year undergraduate at the Peradeniya University. It was many.....

With the deluge continuing and hundreds of thousands of people seriously affected by the worst flood havoc in recent decades, we wish to.....

In the 6th century AD, 900 years after the passing away of the Buddha, the Sri Lankan Bhikkhuni Order reached China, headed by Bhikkhuni Devasara....

With heavy rains and gale force winds continuing for the eighth day yesterday while the south-west monsoon 

Torrential rains and floods shattered the prospect of two rival war hero commemorations. It also relived the 

On May 21 Vesak Day the rites of Upasampada Karmaya or Higher Ordination was commenced at Asgiri

The Constitution is the supreme law in our country.  The Constitution should enshrine principles, culture

On the other hand, as a country, we cannot  shirk our responsibly to look at the larger picture with a view

In the aftermath of the worst flood havoc in recent decades – with heavy rain, storms and landslides continuing 

There are three kinds of Buddhist worship. Buddhists worship the physical remains of the Buddha. (Sharirika Dhathu in Pali).

Millions of world Buddhists annually celebrate the Vesak full moon day, which falls in the month of May

Dhamma is a very simple process, which is taking place universally and every moment in every being, which

During the Cold War barely a week went by without some reportage or debate on nuclear weapons...

With weather patterns becoming unpredictable even with the use of hi-tech equipment, Sri Lanka is...

The two most prominent veterans of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have...

The most significant aspect of Vesak, the Thrice Blessed Day is the enlightenment achieved by the...

A true Buddha puthra with an iron will is Ven. Kirama Wimalajothi Thera. He is an epitome of

As the debate on the restructuring plan of SriLankan Airlines got underway in Parliament last Tuesday

Thrishantha Nanayakkara once said ‘All wars have been fought twice; once in the battlefield and once down 

On Sunday May 22, the international community marks an important day but unfortunately not many people 

It is time we stopped talking about corruption and started taking some serious action.  Commissions and committees have outlived their usefulness. The people are tired and sick of the pace at which these various bodies, whether they are armed wi

The present state of affairs in the country can be described only as a national calamity.  This is due to the convergence of a number of economic, social, environmental and political crises. All of these crises are serious and cannot be easily r

In May this year, Sri Lanka will be completing its 50th year of planned tourism. Although the influx of foreign visitors to Sri Lanka had started during the later stages of the British rule, Sri Lanka was known to travellers all over the world for ma

With weather patterns changing furiously during the past few months because of global warming,  Sri Lanka has experienced a prolonged drought and the highest temperatures in recorded history. But the weather changed dramatically from midnight on

It is now seven years since the end of the war and the onset of a post-war situation.  In that time the roots of conflict were not addressed but sustained and even reproduced. In the North and East, people observed that things may have looked be

In an unprecedented gesture our President has been invited as as guest of the G7 Summit which is to be held in Tokyo on the.....

People had a raw deal always compared to what politicians had won for themselves after independence. Prior to 1970s, parliamentarians....

The Daily Mirror  interviewed well-renowned Sri Lankan Canadian writer Shyam Selvadurai regarding this concern. He was the.....

Stepping beyond the boundary of fifty or sixty years in one’s life is a milestone that needs be symbolically marked. So much so, when....

This isn’t quite how the Indian press worded Narendra Modi’s request to Maithripala Sirisena when they met in New Delhi on Friday. The.....