Ilango Ram’s ‘Nelum Kuluna’ (Tentigo) looks like the shot in the arm the limping Sri Lankan film industry needs just now – but it could be sending the wrong message.

It is a tragedy that Ranil Wickremesinghe, widely regarded as one of South Asia’s most astute politicians, who managed to steer a bankrupt nation back from the brink of collapse, failed to revive the United National Party (UNP) and restore its form

Sri Lanka has historically signalled what other countries can expect to face amidst global economic and political shifts. For better or worse, it is often the first country for many feats in South Asia: universal suffrage in 1931, liberalisation in 1

In less than a month, we will be celebrating the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. It will be the the first under the National People’s Power (NPP) government. It is also the first time that a national political party was able to gather the regional poli

“The national people’s power will win all 17 local authorities in the Jaffna district and form administrations” was the confident assertion of Ramalingam Chandrasekar in Jaffna on Thursday (Mar 13).

Although belatedly, we raise this question for two reasons, firstly, the interrogating style of the programme which is conducted with no holds barred, aggressively and without caring who the interviewee is, seemed to be too much for Wickremesinghe. S

For instance after a US underworld figure Sam Giancana, was subpoenaed to appear before the ‘Church Committee on Assassinations in 1975’, Giancana was found murdered at home; killed with a wound at the back of his head, and five bullet holes arou

Charismatic author and speaker Joyce Meyer once said, “Teachers can change lives with the right mix of chalk and challenges”. She wasn’t talking about reforms in education.

During the Prohibition era (1920-33), when alcohol was banned in the United States, the American Mafia, along with other ethnic gangs like the Irish, Jewish, and Polish, dominated the bootleg industry. Their operations involved alcohol from Canada an

Though the film’s advertisers seem to have avoided this definition, what else is Rani except a biopic? ‘Bio’ comes from biography, and ‘pic’ comes from picture (film). A biopic is a film depicting or dramatising the life of a real person, c

Education can transform society by inculcating values and promoting integration within pluralistic societies. In a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country like Sri Lanka,

Just the other day, this writer read somewhere in the social media a fantastic saying, ‘Earlier weapons were manufactured to fight wars.

Two days after gala International Women’s Day events concluded, a dark day dawned in Sri Lanka when a female doctor was allegedly sexually assaulted at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital on Monday (March 10).

There is a war-like situation growing in the Palk Straits. It is a battle for fish and livelihood, especially affecting our Northern fisher communities. The demarcation of the maritime boundary agreements of 1974 and 1976 between India and Sri Lanka

Donald Trump last week issued an executive order making English the official language of the United States of America. The order rescinded a previous presidential decree issued by former President Bill Clinton requiring federal government agencies to

At the end of the COVID pandemic in 2021, the residents of Colombo North came in for a rude shock. They found that the public transport system that had served them for several decades didn’t exist anymore. The Kotahena roundabout junction had been

It is obvious that the majority of senior citizens too are in dire straits, since the withdrawal of their special interest rate of 15% per annum on FDs, sans any withholding tax (WHT) or advanced income tax (AIT) imposed.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) conducted a valuable workshop on the way forward for Sri Lanka towards an enhanced renewable energy (RE) penetration in its energy mix recently, on January 30, 2025.

We were supposed to have become a rich country decades ago. At Independence many predicted that Ceylon would become the Switzerland of the East. Instead communal strife, corruption and misguided economic policy held us back.

The ethnic problem seems to have been forgotten even by the Tamils of Northern and Eastern Provinces. Tamils have apparently been left to themselves. Political disunity seems to have been the order of the day.

Gamini Fonseka has been my favourite Sinhala film actor since childhood. Gamini entered my life when I was about eight years old.

P. Dayaratne, the former District and Cabinet Minister who represented Ampara (Digamadulla) in Parliament for an uninterrupted 38 years, belonged to a rare and vanishing generation of honourable politicians.

Sri Lanka is a country that is in search of the truth. This is because the majority of the islanders are Buddhists.

What is common between United States President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Both are entertainers. Trump was the protagonist in the popular ‘The Apprentice’ television reality show that ran from 2004 to 2017. Zelensky

Today we in Lanka join humankind the world over in celebrating the positive role played by women in life’s different spheres. The date of March 8 has its roots in Russian history. On February 23, 1913, Russian women protested against World War I an

Various financial irregularities taken place at several state institutions such as the National Youth Services Council (NYSC) during the last government are being exposed these days at the ongoing meetings of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE

The President, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, said in the parliament on 28 February 2025 that the Number of persons in all three armed forces will be reduced while they will be made sophisticated with equipment. “Our aim is to acquire modern equipment

Civilisations since the dawn of history have engaged in search for the right balance between security and liberty-both elemental needs of society through dramatically changing conditions and priorities.

In a world where mental health struggles are often overlooked, Sri Lanka stands at a critical turning point. With an alarming suicide rate of 3,500 lives lost last year and countless others suffering in silence, the need for urgent intervention is un

Sri Lankans have become aware of hard-hitting air pollution events lately where pollutants from regional countries have negatively impacted our health.