Today we see the necessity for social harmony, as never before. Unless some meaningful and out of the box action is taken soon, our beautiful country is faced with doom. In this regard, I humbly present a recipe, which is likely to help achieve the c

The term is attributed to Lynton Crosby, a political strategist who has managed campaigns of right-of-centre parties in several countries. Boris Johnson, who employed Crosby during London mayoral elections explains the term thus:  

All people are consumers in different degrees and therefore World Consumer Rights Day today is important for us to become more aware of our rights and responsibilities in bringing about a just and fair society.   

When the father of our nation D.S. Senanayake went ahead with his ambitious plans for farmers as Minister of Agriculture in the State Council of Ceylon, he was met with resistance by cynics.

There was so much of hope, at least amongst the ordinary folks, that Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka would be appointed Minister of Law and Order.

There is a potential threat of domestic terrorism of a new type. The excellent choice for Minister of Law and Order, Ranjith Madduma Bandara, and the Defence authorities under President Sirisena and Ruwan Wijewardene must coordinate to face this ne

The ethnic violence mainly in Kandy District and sparsely in several other districts has subsided, if not ceased. But the scars will certainly remain for a long time. Now the authorities including Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have given detail

Last week, when I wrote about the looming danger of fringe Sinhala Buddhist extremism, it was all quiet in Kandy, at least on the surface. But, those who were privy to local intelligence should have known about simmering tension in the area after the

This is in reply to Dr. Nalin de Silva’s interview to Kelum Bandara of Daily Mirror, dated March 6, 2018. Dr. de Silva raises various issues here, but I wish to respond to him only on two counts: Basil Rajapaksa caused Maithripala Sirisena&rsqu

The Governments across the world take decisions on international relations on the basis of a wide variety of inputs and considerations. Among the ingredients is domestic political pressure.Typically, political pressure is built up by the mass media.

With the government having virtually brought under control the ethnic tension and violence in some areas of the Kandy District, President Maithripala Sirisena....

Start with politics. Xi Jingping has used his power to reassert the dominance of the Communist Party and of his own position within it. As part of a campaign against....

M. Jaffer, an Ettam kattai resident was despairing. “The main junction is going up in flames. At the same time, the authorities are folding their arms and....

As if the electoral bashing it was subjected to at the Local Government polls was not enough, the government,in short order, had to face the further....

What do we in the West know about Islam? Perhaps more than we did before 9/11 but not much.  When Tony Blair was Prime Minister of the United  Kingdom, he was photographed walking along holding the Koran.

March 8 was not only World Women’s Day, it was also World Kidney Day and with Sri Lanka still facing a virtual kidney disease epidemic in the North Central province and other areas, the day had special significance for our country.   

It’s not a good thing to mess with a sore wound and likewise the recent uprisings have made things a lot ‘bitter’ than expected. 

Sri Lanka’s nation-building process, it appears, is a farce and the state-building process a failure. 

The Nobel Prize-winning American novelist Earnest Hemingway in his famous book, ‘For Whom the bell Tolls’ wrote an equally famous if not immortal truth that, “I belong to humanity and every person’s death diminishes me”.

A week ago, after Sinhala Buddhist mobs rioted in Ampara, a dumb group of four Muslim youths played into the hands of Sinhala Buddhist mobs creating mayhem in Digana, Kandy. 

“Teldeniya Burning!” – that’s how one commentator puts it. Conclusions are being drawn, inferences are being made, and all the while the nation has been numbed.

When the Amnesty International (AI), the London-b ased Non-Governmental Organization working on human rights issues around the world listed Sri Lanka among countries unsafe for Muslims in its latest report titled ‘The State of the World’s

The world today marks International Women’s day amid an unprecedented international ‘me too’ movement to curb sexual harassment or assault of women in areas ranging from the highest places to public transport and also for gender j

Communal violence, sparked by the death of a 41-year-old man, overshadowed the political developments that were to unfold this week. A motion for the vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a political rally by the Joint

President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in recent statements have alluded to people fishing in troubled waters for political gain. It’s an ‘it’s not us’ kind of position to take. Safe.  &n

The weak institutional structure of the Local Authorities: Creation of a weak institutional structure due to the failure of one major political party to secure a clear majority in a large number of Local Authorities.  

Since the day the Local Government election results were out, the entire political landscape has assumed the form of a circus or a roadshow, with politicians from the national level to the LG level itself, engaged in an exercise bent on either grab

“They create a communal clash or put fuel to the fire to intensify the on-going clash. Every Government maintains its power with the full awareness of separating the society into race and class.” This particular dialogue from Sahodaraya

In the aftermath of violence in Ampara last week and in some areas of Kandy on Monday, the government yesterday declared a state of emergency for ten days. Reports yesterday afternoon said the situation in Digana, Teldeniya and some other areas was

Sri Lanka is surrounded by the Indian Ocean. Yet, the physical presence of India up north has had an intimidating influence on most of Sri Lankans. While its admirers, especially those Indophiles, who have made it a point to be more conversed in In