Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform headed by Lal Wijenayake has today submitted its final report to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

One may question if this is an instance of a covert, deliberate policy or a reflection of passive complicity. The government’s indifference amid growing criticism and protest against welcoming ...

Until the 1980s, the traditional clothing of Sri Lankan Moors—commonly referred to as Sri Lankan Muslims—was a vibrant and visible expression of their cultural identity. Men often wore sarongs, long ...

In Europe, countries like Spain and Cyprus have faced similar challenges, where atrocities occurred more than fifty to ninety years ago and where only those beyond middle age have any direct memory of ...

Sri Lanka’s public debt crisis has attracted intense attention since the country’s historic default in 2022. Academics, policymakers, and international lenders have rightly focused on (a) fiscal ...

Post July 1983, a dominant narrative of perpetual ‘ethnic conflict’ between the Sinhala and Tamil speaking communities was funded and constructed largely by the Ford Foundation’s ethnic conflict ...

I use the term ‘struggle’ in the title of this article to mean ‘work,’ and not ‘fight.’ The advocacy for peace in the world is old as the history of war and violence. But that has failed so far at ...

The Tamil National Alliance – Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi – Parliamentary Election Manifesto – 2015 At the time of independence from colonial rule in 1948, Ceylon was foisted with a unitary type ...

Full text of the Maxwell Paranagama Commission report, officially known as the Presidential Commission of Inquiry Into Complaints of Abductions and Disappearances tabled in parliament on Tuesday ...

The Fort Police today arrested a man by the name of ‘ Dan Priyasad ’ who calls himself the ‘Saviour of the Sinhalese’ and has been threatening to bomb Muslims in Sri Lanka. A spokesman at the police ...

The suicide bomber who killed Premadasa on 1st May 1993 was said to be Kulaveerasingam Veerakumar (23) alias Babu, from Jaffna. Nearly all the details given to the Press came from Amarasena Rajapakse, ...

Bishop Rayappu Joseph is called the Oscar Romeiro of Mannar by the Tamils of Sri Lanka. He is known as ‘Kotiya’ or the Tiger Bishop by the Sinhalese. A Doctorate in Canon Law from Rome, he was ...