One of the key proposals in the current Constitution Reform process is to strengthen the Fundamental Rights (FR) chapter in the....

The government’s manner of communicating details of the Hambantota port deal to the public has been less than forthright, and....

August marks the two independence days of India and Pakistan, English lawyer Sri Cyril Radcliffe, was given a hasty assignment to....

North Korea and the US are once again at loggerheads. At first glance it appears a military confrontation is a distinct....

It’s not that many years ago that Warren Christopher, the US Secretary of State, commenting on the outbreak of separatist ethnic strife....

“Many people seem to have been amazed that I should mediate in such matters without having any official status to do so, but I think...

In September, last year, I had the privilege of attending an event in Galle, with the then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to meet......

Paul Perera was a household name in politics two decades ago. Paul became a close associate of J R Jayewardene when he was the Leader of the Opposition and played a key role in ensuring the UNP victory at the 1977 General Elections. 

Mr. S. Sivalingam, better known as Master Sivalingam, is an icon of storytelling and the Tamil bow-song tradition. He is a unique individual who has touched the hearts and minds of the Tamil community for more than steady five decades. 

August 12 is International Youth day or IYD. It is a day set apart by the United Nations to celebrate the young people of our world and serves to remind us that the young people in our midst are often left out and excluded from decision-making proces

This week, instead of the scientists, the brinkmanship of the US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jung-un set the clock to a few seconds to midnight. Not since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has the world been brought so cl

Today, I will tell a story that is of great use and limit my reading of it because it is not of that much use. The dialogues are not perfect lifts because memories such as these are long and rambling as they flit across one’s mind but… t

What is it about nationalism that irks academics? Why has scholarship for so long denigrated nationalist ideologies as repelling, alienating and negative? More specifically, why has Western scholarship treated nationalism as an ideology of the Other,

We sing our own praises. We sing we are the “Lokenuthum rata Lankavayi….” (Lanka the noble land of the world). In this noble land, the Presidential Commission, investigating into the Central Bank’s (CBSL) Treasury Bond scam h

In Sri Lanka there are no laws or traditions or generally accepted ethical values that prevent a Minister from accepting such gifts. Then why did Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake tell the Presidential Commission inquiring into the controversial Cen

Prof. Alfred H.A. Soons is an Emeritus Professor of Public International Law at the Utrecht University. He is an expert in the Law of the Sea. Currently he is a member of the Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea of the Intergovernmental Oce

Although government politicians, both UNP and UPFA, asked Mr. Karunanayake to relinquish office rather than get axed through a parliamentary process, it is learnt he has refused to resign   

Just because you have symptoms of diabetes, such as a frequent passing of urine or excessive thirst, a physician can’t be certain it is diabetes.   

Dayan Jayatilleka is absolutely opposed to any move that goes beyond the 13th Amendment (in terms of power-devolution). ‘Not even a single millimeter!’ Is he ready to concede. He adds a caveat: ‘even the implementation of the 13th

As events are being organized to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the iconic Hollywood blockbuster, Titanic, the best legacy of the movie perhaps is not its global fan following that revived the romantic genre in Hollywood. It’s most impo

Ahead of the next round of talks on the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India, Sri Lanka’s Chief Negotiator K.J. Weerasinghe said that he could not stipulate when the agreement could be signed exactly. However, Mr. W

In a recent interview Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake -one of the leading figures who contributed to establish Good Governance in Sri Lanka-expressed the following views regarding the present political and economic s

Leading industrialist and Chairman of Nature’s Secrets Samantha Kumarasinghe says that the present Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India has left Sri Lanka at a loss. Therefore, he stresses that SL should be well prepared in advance before he

It is highly rumoured that the government is going to amend the Constitution so as to conduct elections to all nine Provincial Councils on a single day, without having them on a staggered basis as done thus far.

A black-hole is defined as follows: ‘A region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape’. In today’s context, Sri Lanka is increasingly drawn towards that cultural black-hole which soaks

Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) held its 10th International Research Conference at the university premises on August 3 and 4 on the theme “Changing Dynamics in the Global Environment: Challenges and Opportunities”. The sympos

A response to the Subcommittee on Higher Education of the Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committee

Memories of the gruesome ethnic conflict would never fade away. While two ethnicities fought for their own freedom, there were those who viewed the conflict with much vengeance and some who supported it. But the stories of those who supported it are

It is conventional wisdom that Minister Ravi Karunanayake should have resigned – or failing that be sacked -- after those earth shattering....

In the aftermath of historic Kandy Esala Perahera, Viharadhipathi of Rangiri Dambulu Rajamaha Vihare Ven. Godagama Mangala Thera...