From age to age in our undefiled heritage, one of the principles relating to Human Rights has been found in the hallowed Middle Path. With enlightened eyes, we see there an inseparable connection......

We cherish pleasant memories of love and friendship of  people, whom we love, who are close to us, and from time to time, we tend to go back down memory lane, where the memories we hold close......

Sita Ranjani’s Thiththa Kaviyakata Pera Wadanak (Foreword to a Bitter Poem) is an odyssey in verse through the turbulent sea of life – her own life, and the turbulent politics of......

The Boxing Day tsunami that hit Sri Lanka and many other countries bordering the Sumatra island, was one of the deadliest disasters that went down in history. Thousands of lives were washed away irrespective of.......

What drives people to extremes? Why do the people behind Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State (IS) get so charged up and angry? Perhaps to understand we should go back to.....

The day after Christmas, December 26 is unfortunately remembered most by Sri Lanka for one of the worst ever natural catastrophes, the Tsunami, which occurred on December 26, 2004. Though some......

As we get ready to say goodbye to 2015 and welcome 2016, we can only heave a sigh of relief...

A modern thinker Eckhart Tolle, followed by millions invited his students to look at the whole...

The internal strife in the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has taken a new turn with the sudden...

NO TREATMENT will be the New Year greetings of medical doctors to their poor patients...

‘Twas the night of nights. Cold - freezingly, bitterly, cold. The star-spangled inky blue sky...

One of the significant incidents which took place that day was where a train was...

The logo of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy is drawn from Luke 6:36. It reads...

After the Parinibbana of Lord Buddha- the Enlightened One- there are three kinds of items for the worship of the Blessed One by the devotees. The first kind is “Saririka Dhathu” – relics of the Enlightened One, the eminent example b

Violence is organized carnage in the name of a faction, in the name of God or country. When you call yourself a Sinhalese or a Muslim or a Christian or a Tamil, or anything else, you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind, therefore you are

Today is a significant day for inter-faith unity -- it is Uduwap Poya Day, the Holy Prophet Mohamed’s Birthday and Christmas Eve. It will be a holy time to deeply reflect on one of the biggest crises facing all people -- saving our common homel

Although the 2016 Budget was passed with a comfortable majority of 109 votes, uncertainty hovers over implications when implementing its provisions next year.

Prophet Mohammad’s birth anniversary will take place on  24th. December 2015. Accordingly this will be the 12th. day of the muslim calender month of Rabi ul Awwal..

Ronnie de Mel earned the reputation of having held the post of the Minister of Finance for 17 years under the UNP government which was elected in 1977. He was first elected as MP for Devinuwara in 1967 under the SLFP ticket.

Three speeches last week revealed our future. Each concerned an aspect of this island’s fate.Together they show the whole. The Prime Minister announced that the country will have a new political system next year.

Full length feature films, short films, documentaries and other forms of digital presentations are rapidly being produced in the Thamil language over the world. 

Christmas has been called many things by many people. It has been called the giving season, the rejoicing season and the festive season. Saint Paul called it the season for hospitality,...

We enter the season of Advent and Christmas this year in a land that has undergone significant political changes. Last year we kept the feast of Christmas alongside a keenly fought election campaign.

In a significant move, the National Christmas Festival for the first time was held in Jaffna last Sunday and President Maithripala Sirisena -- the first Head of State to preside at such a festival...

One year ago, around the time of Christmas, there was tension in the country.  The people were about to vote in a presidential election which would decide the destiny of the country -- one way or the......

As featured in the documentary film “India’s Daughter”,  there is a Jyoti Singh in every woman. Like her, every woman has her own dreams, aspirations and goals to be free and independent.  She also has......

I recently had an interesting conversation with a friend who uses a pair of crutches. He insisted that people with physical or mental impairments should be referred to as ‘disabled’ -- and not the.....

Eelam People’s Democratic Party Leader Douglas Devananda served in the Cabinet of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. However, after the change of government, his party was relegated to the.....

Sri Lanka private television broadcasting pioneer Shan Wickremesinghe’s colossal contribution to the media knows no bounds. If it was not for Mr. Wickremesinghe’s staunchness and perseverance...

As the saying goes, “Reading maketh a full man” and of course, sometimes, books can be your best friends. Literature has been there for generations, and some have changed history, made revolutions, and have generated revolutionary ideas&n