The Batalanda Commission report which goes into details of what happened during the JVP insurrection of 1987-89 has become the centre of public attention. The controversy has long been a point of ...

Emerging world economic order. The emerging world economic order – now tagged as Trumporder after its initiator – has turned the economic policy package advocated by IMF and W ...

The tyranny of the hegemonic dollar lasting for more than half a century and provided the economic lubricant to the outreach of US imperialism has finally found in Trump a president who is prepared to ...

Sri Lanka’s state university system, with its enviable human resource base, is on this job. But due to structural problems such as funding for ongoing projects, the availability has been short of the ...

Whether or not the world order is interested in Sri Lanka, the island country is in a fortuitously good place while other countries and polities are caught up in one way or another in the global waves ...

The Soul of a Nation. That a nation has a soul was introduced by Plato in the Republic, in which he stated that the state is infused with a soul that resembles the soul of an indi ...

While the Tamil community no longer mobilizes in the streets or gathers at iconic locations like Galle Face, as they did during the ‘Aragalaya,’ one of their most fundamental demands remains steadfast ...

“When a diplomat says yes it’s yes; when a diplomat says maybe, it’s no; if a diplomats says no, he’s no diplomat. When a lady says no, it’s no; if a lady says maybe, it’s yes; if a lady says yes, she ...

Restoration of Judiciary independence was one of the key pledges by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and his National Peoples Power (NPP) in their respective election campaigns and Sri Lankan ...

The appointment of retired judges, especially of the Superior Courts, to positions in both the public and private sectors has been a matter of concern to the legal community and the general public in ...