According to the biblical story, the Pharaoh of Egypt had a dream that no one could interpret for him. Joseph, then a prisoner with a history.....

Following are three paragraphs from an article written by Professor Amal Kumarage of the Department of Transport and Logistics Management, University of Moratuwa and published in the Daily FT last week. These three paragraphs thr

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation, Adam Smith once said - meaning that the modern states are innately strong enough to withstand a good deal of external and internal pressure. It takes serious and serial bungling by the policymakers to break

The 104 million Tribal population has been languishing at the bottom of India’s social, economic and political ladder since the earliest times.

Since 2020, there has been a growing trend of disillusionment among young people in our country. At the presidential election of 2019 and the general election which followed, they came out in droves.....

Government revenue plummeted since President Gotabaya Rajapaksa came to power. This was driven by tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy, in a bid to increase investment and spur economic....

I made friends with a Ukrainian called Sergei A. on the internet. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he abruptly went silent, and I wondered what happened to him. I finally managed to.....

Australian cricket authorities and players responded positively to a tour that was hanging in balance after political insecurity and the economic catastrophe that prevailed. Appreciating their gesture, spectators....

In a time of crisis of epic proportion, the end result may be something unpredicted, and it is more so in politics. What Sri Lanka goes through currently is a period of social, political and economic turbulence with uncertainty hanging on the horizon

With the appointment of United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister on May 12, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa seems to have been relieved of a heavy burden and a massive pressure which had nearly ousted him from power.

A private bus plying from Athurugiriya to Kollupitiya recently was packed mostly with office workers. A good number of passengers were standing and it went without saying that they were feeling the ‘heat’ inside the bus.

Employees working for the Government service are often referred to as Government servants but in reality they are public servants because they are expected to serve the people sincerely, sacrificially and selflessly.

The forest cover of Sri Lanka which stood at 50% in 1949 is today reduced to 18%. Last November Minister of Agriculture, Wild Life and Forest Conservation Mahinda Amaraweera.....

Yesterday’s virtual BRICS summit, when seen against the backdrop of the Quad leaders’ gathering in Tokyo a month ago, not only explains India’s diplomatic manoeuvres and power-political....

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the worst President we’ve had. He is the worst leader, counting all presidents, prime ministers, ministers, chairpersons of local government authorities and maranaadhara samithi. He is the worst Sri Lankan ever. Let’s assume

“How often the great interests of society are sacrificed to the vanity, to the conceit and to the obstinacy of individuals” Alexander Hamilton

Ceylon was known as the pearl in the Indian Ocean in ancient times and as well as at present. Hence, it was known to other countries for centuries. We have 2500 years of written history and that was one of the developed civilizations in Asia.

Whenever the Lankans have been at a seemingly bottomless pit of despair, it has been cricket that has helped the nation, irrespective of race, ethnicity or religion raise its collective head.

Clashes at filling stations and at cooking gas distributing centres are increasing with the heightening uncertainty over the fuel and gas supply in the near future. The number of reports of police and the army using firearms to control the angry mobs

Those who have followed this column might know that I have regularly expressed strong reservations about Gotabaya

The proposed 21 st. Constitutional Amendment (21A), which is meant to reduce the powers of the Executive President and e

The protest at Galle Face is continuing despite President Gotabaya Rajapaksa refusing to step down. Rev. Fr. Jeewantha Peiris is a key figure in the struggle at Galle Face....

On Sunday last, we were told how senior journalist of the Daily Mirror Jamila Hussein was allegedly prevented carrying out her duties by a section of the protestors outside the home.....

All eyes are on the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). But why now and what is at stake for the working people? I address below the dangers of privatising CEB, the IMF’s push for market pricing electricity....

Let me rewind back to my boyhood when I first read the fable about the scorpion and frog which I believe is of Russian origin.

The remark by former Finance Minister and the National Organiser of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) at his farewell press briefing that those who voted for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the present government was also responsible for the cu

With the main Aragalaya or public revolt continuing for the third month against what the Rajapaksas wanted to build up as a family-government,

The genesis of the slogan demanding 225 clean and virtuous Members in Parliament has a long political history. In the 4th century B.C. Aristotle in “The Politics”, argued that if it is inevitable that not all.....

Sri Lanka is seeing the first signs of some sections of the community thinking of whether the ‘neighbour’ had his or her meal. Just the other day ‘Sarvodaya’ together with ‘Singularity Sri Lanka’ organised....