Give the devil its due, they say. Donald Trump deserves a few words of praise at least for instituting a pause rather than a ceasefire in Gaza. After two years of ceaseless bombing, genocide and ...

“No child should be resilient to slaughter, genocide, and massacre. Being resilient is used to justify what is happening ...

Auschwitz was the place where Adolf Hitler’s regime led the world into a war of madness and murdered over six million Jews, along with millions of others. The place we walked through together, silent ...

September saw anniversaries in the chilling deaths of two democratically elected Socialist heads of state during the United States’ led Cold War anti-communist crusade that unfolded across the world ...

The government is investing its time and money in northern development in a way that no previous government has in a long while. The topmost leaders of the government no less, President Anura Kumara ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s recent visits to India and Japan have received considerable attention both at home and abroad. They mark a new phase in Sri Lanka’s foreign policy positioning, ...

When Singapore refused to extradite former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran in early 2025, the headlines called it a diplomatic failure. But that’s the wrong diagnosis. What we witnessed was not ...

More than a year has passed since the National People’s Power (NPP) government came into office, yet many of Sri Lanka’s long-standing political and constitutional issues remain unresolved. The ...

“BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS,” President Donald Trump exclaimed in ALL CAPS in his social media post from the White House, just before 7:00 PM on Wednesday, 8 th October. He was announcing the ...

It is often said that there can be many fathers to victory, but no one takes responsibility for defeat. That saying perfectly applies to the story of how commercial whale watching began in Sri Lanka.

Standing on my balcony facing Station Road, Mount Lavinia, I see hundreds of children walking past our apartment, dressed in crisp white school uniforms. It is a beautiful sight on a weekday morning.

In contrast to intolerance in governance and towards others who are deemed to be outsiders that is increasingly being manifested in the world, Sri Lanka is taking a different path. It is adopting an ...