China, since the days in 1793 and the mission of Earl Macartney, emissary of King George 11, has kept its distance from the West, preferring to be “as self-contained as a billiard ball”, to quote the great historian Alain Peyrefitte. 

On Thursday, 20 July 2017, Ram Nath Kovind a member of India’s poorest and most oppressed caste –the Dalits- was elected President of India. Ram Nath Kovind is the second member of the Dalit caste to become president of India; the first b

Though we hear and talk a lot about human rights, responsibility ranks among our noblest virtues. Major religions teach and we need to be aware that we are responsible for the welfare and well-being of all people, specially the oppressed people ensla

Is there anyone who can prevent India and China from going to war? For the past one month, the two countries have been involved in a major military standoff.  

Professor Rohana Laxman Piyadasa, a lecturer of mass media, reflected on the SAITM issue, unrest in universities, the forming of a new constitution and the act proposed by the government to control media. Here are excerpts of the interview. 

Are there eighteen Sri Lanka Freedom Party Parliamentarians who are supporters of President Maithripala Sirisena planning to resign from the Government, as claimed by the Joint Opposition?  Mahinda Rajapaksa camp says that those defectors are to

Bound by their MoU, they are not formally separated yet. But they may have to. Now, the indications are, PM Wickremesinghe is out to break the jinx, on his string of Presidential Election defeats. 

The Government statement declares that “The Bill does not provide for jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC)”. This is false.  

It’s not easy to come across a politician you have mixed feelings about, who says something you at least partly agree with.  

The government, which received many a laurel in for the mode of its engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), got a brickbat for the first time after the fact- finding mission of Special UN Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counte

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), although purported to be following the Bandaranaike policies and principles, basically consists of socialized economic principles and hard nationalism bordering on extremism. Its fundamental appeal has been to Sinhales

Venerable Galkande Dammananda thera, the Priest-in-Charge of  Walpola  Rahula Institute and lecturer of the University of Kelaniya, in an interview with the Dailymirror ‘’ said that religious leaders must first respect

Elections are fought over all kinds of issues. The winners typically secure the right to interpret their mandate. “This election was about A, B, C or D,” they would say and often give their own interpretation of A, B, C and D, amending th

Last week, the National Unity Government took a bold and effective step to ban the use of plastic and polythene, including the popular silli silli bags which come easily but do not go away easily. However, there are interested parties with vested int

As Indo-China border stand-off in Sikkim sector is dragged on for another week it’s worth recalling perhaps the only.....

If you say one thing and do quite another, that’s deceit. If you stick one label on something but sell quite another, then....

In the backdrop of a crisis at the Northern Provincial Council (NPC), its Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran, during an interview with....

The Leader of Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) MP Douglas Devananda, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, speaks about the.....

Swamped with the worst garbage crisis in Colombo, President Maithripala Sirisena ordered the Megapolis and Western Development Ministry...

In a landmark decision for the first time in Sri Lanka’s university history, a senior lecturer who was victimized by university....

Spokesperson of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Mahishini Colonne has sent the following letter to the Editor:   

The India-China military and political staff at Doklam on the Bhutan-Tibet border appears to be in for the long haul because both sides seem to have painted themselves into a corner and can’t back out without loss of face.   

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) General Secretary and Agriculture Minister Duminda Dissanayake in an interview with the Daily Mirror spoke about the party’s future in the wake of attempts by a section of its members to leave the National Unity

Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on counter terrorism and human rights, who visited Colombo last week criticized Sri Lanka for the slow pace of the transitional justice process and warned that the international community was running out of p

Cricket lovers in Sri Lanka might not be happy with the clash between the two legends of the game, former captains Kumar Sangakkara and Arjuna Ranatunga the current Minister of Petroleum and Renewable Resources. They are indirectly levelling serious

We Sri Lankans, like other inhabitants of this planet are first and foremost, citizens of this earth and in this context, creed, breed, high-born...

In caste-ridden societies, dominant castes claim privilege through birth, but as evident from recent caste conflicts in Jaffna, death.....

Tamara Kunanayakam was the recipient of ‘Inspirational Woman of the Year’Award in this year’s ‘Top 50 Professional and Career Women Awards’ organized...

The focus in this column is on a new level of advanced capitalism that is driving political processes globally. Thus a few lines from....

It goes back to the French revolution of 1789. At the Revolutionary Convention the most radical of the insurgents decided to seat themselves on the left side. “Why not on the other side, the right side, the place of rectitude, where law and the