March 26 marks the 51st death anniversary of Philip Gunawardena, one of the most colourful political figures of the last century. Dubbed the ‘Father of Marxism’...
By Rajan Philips There is a new dichotomy in the Sri Lankan political formation. The JVP appears to be outrunning others in the political race by...
I wanted to make Canada my home: Then I realized my degree was worthless here by Komaldeep Makkar A first person report I grew up in...
Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama was the Ariel F. Sallows Professor of Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Associate Professor of Law at the University...
By Michael Patrick O’Leary According to The Economist, “Britain has endured a grim decade during which perhaps a quarter of a million people died younger than...
by Dr Upatissa Pethiyagoda Towards the end of 1986, I was privileged to participate in a training programme conducted by The International Agency for Agricultural Development...
By Uditha Devapriya Sir Humphrey Appleby: There is no reason to change a system that has worked so well in the past! Jim Hacker: But it...
Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography Norway which was a poor country at the beginning of the 20th century quickly became very rich...
A unique combination of practicing medical doctor and published poet is Janaka Malwatta, here in Sri Lanka to launch his first published book of poetry blackbirds...
Hope springs eternal in the human breast, it is said, but if the breast is of a national-minded Sri Lankan, hope cannot rise; it is stifled...