by Leelananda de Silva In the 1970s there was concern in Sri Lanka and elsewhere about the migration of skilled people from their home countries. This...
And in the cross-hairs by Kumar David As events unfolded it was not surprising that Aragalaya (Sinhalese for struggle) turned out to be not one unified...
By Charles Seevali Abeysekera BROMLEY, UK, Jul 19 2022 (IPS) – Sri Lanka is officially bankrupt and a failed state in all but name. How did a country...
by Rajan Philips Ranil Wickremesinghe is the third Sri Lankan President older than seventy years to assume office. He is seventy four, JR Jayewardene was seventy...
by ECB Wijeyesinghe Everybody who writes about Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten must feel like Virgil, the Latin poet, who began his immortal epic. the Aeneid, with...
Who would have thought queues would be miles long; of people, motor bikes, various types of vehicles with even a toy car parked to mark a...
A sense of gloom and doom pervaded the Auckland air on the night of July 3 when news of the sudden passing of Felicia was broken....
By Gwynne Dyer About six weeks ago Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), warned that the attempt to revive the 2015 deal...
A view from independent economic development consultant By Asita De Silva The task ahead for Sri Lanka is to transform its economy from an inward-looking, public...
By Uditha Devapriya Historically, the city of Colombo always faced a conflict, or contradiction, between an almost endless set of high-rise buildings and largely poorly constructed...