The opening is hackneyed but yet holds.“Your liberty ends where my nose begins.”- a phrase wrongly attributed to many but was attributed to US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. who said: “Your Liberty To Swing Your Fis

Facing stiff opposition in the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian parliament, where it does not have a majority, the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has all but given up its bid to pass two politically- motivated,

I thought of writing this article on the First Prime Minister of Ceylon D.S. Senanayake-the- father-of-the-nation, with great respect and reverence and I, strongly believe that it is the right time to educate the present generation about this great e

Today the country celebrates its 71 anniversary of independence at a time marred by internal political divisions and heading towards decisive elections which may yet not fix most of our system of governance that has metastasized....

The Ceylon Malay community which is rich in culture and religious traditions is an important ethnic minority that has played a major role in shaping the history and diversity of Sri Lanka.

The delay in holding Provincial Council (PC) elections is very much in the news these days, especially since Elections Commissioner Deshapriya threatened to quit his post if elections were not held before November 2019.  

If Independence Day on February 4 is about a deeply political moment from our past, our current political moment is characterised by deep political divisions and disarray.

The number of nuclear weapons possessed by the US and Russia is a fraction of what it was during the height of the Cold War. Successive presidents on both sides, since the time of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, have feared their destructive p

Colombo is one of the first 18 cities that have been accredited as a Ramsar Wetland City at the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP13) held on October  25, 2018 in Dubai,  United Arab Emirates.   

On issues relating to global warming and climate change, it is essential that all people – children and adults – need to be enlightened on the catastrophic consequences if we do not take urgent steps. Ignorance is a mortal sin that aggrav

In some ways, the reservoir near Mr. Kapuruhami’s farm looks more like an ungroomed football field. Stretching alongside rice paddies, the water’s surface is overlain with lotus pads and the scruff of tiny grass islands. Kapuruhami’

On Tuesday last, when the Cabinet of Ministers met, President Sirisena had submitted a paper requesting Cabinet Approval to hold Provincial Council Elections to the dissolved councils before the end of May 2019.

The threat on Monday by Chairman of the Elections Commission Mahinda Deshapriya to resign if Provincial Council elections were not held before the Presidential Election is an indication of his Commission’s helplessness.  

The breathtaking sceneries at tea estates would not be complete without the pluckers who know the art of choosing which two leaves and the bud should go into their baskets.

In what is seen as the most outlandish foreign policy declaration the Donald Trump administration has hitherto made, the United States on Monday tried to unseat Venezuela’s democratically elected president by recognising the pro-US opposition l

“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones,” - Nelson Mandela

Sri Lanka’s history shows that two uniforms have helped shape the independence and identity of this nation. One is the saffron coloured robe worn by Buddhist priests while the other is the dark green attire worn by the ‘soldiers’

This is a very difficult question to answer and it is only the average citizen/litigant that is capable of answering this million dollar question.  In the West and many other countries in the Commonwealth and civil law jurisdictions the J

It seems that President Maithripala Sirisena is heading for another collision course with the United National Party (UNP) as he has presented a Cabinet memorandum seeking approval to conduct the provincial council elections before May 31, this year

M.A. Sumanthiran of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) makes much of caveats in the proposed constitution that makes ‘division impossible’. The call then is for a new constitution where ‘indivisibility’ is scripted in. That&r

A professor’s thought-provoking idea conveyed in an article a couple of weeks ago under the caption, Towards a ranking of Sri Lankan Universities reminded me of the famous SIT DOWN protest by students of the Colombo University, five decades a

The dietitians are surely having a field day. Sri Lankans in their tens of thousands are rushing to them to shed weight -- a trend that was only seen in Europe and the United States until a few years back.

On January 8, 2015, the people of this country unreservedly placed their hopes and aspirations on line. Their expression in the exercise of their fundamental right to vote couldn’t have been clearer. They elected a new government. They reject

Social media is no longer an afterthought. It now forms an integral part of any company, any public personality and any public movement -- anything anyone wants to be known by someone else is more often in social media than not.   

If there is one exercise our Sri Lankan Politicians are brilliant at it is ‘Power Struggle’ and the struggle is already on!!! All the Rajapaksa brothers are in the forefront, PENDING COURT CASES AND ‘DUAL CITIZENSHIP’ NOTWIT

The agreement between the estate workers’ trade unions and the regional plantation companies to increase the daily wage of estate workers from Rs.500 to Rs.700 does not seem to end the struggle for higher wages by the said workers. The issue ha

Kumar Welgama, Member of Parliament from Kalutara is a colouful personality. Recently, he is in the limelight due to a revelation by the Committee on Public Enterprises (COP

This year, I had the honour and privilege to visit several cities in Sri Lanka. I have met many people who strive with all their might to build a better society for themselves, and for the Tamil, Sinhalese and Muslim societies. I would like to share

One hundred and fifty years is a long trek in any profession. Ratnapura therefore, has every reason to celebrate its judicial history which commenced in 1868 by the British Raj – indeed a landmark which paved the way to bring out its first ever

The agitations and strikes by tea estate workers highlight another aspect of the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils.  Tamil tea estate workers, here the Sinhalese labourers form the minority, claim that they have been exploited for generations in the t