In this series of interviews on Colombo’s heritage, we cover Colombo’s great cinemas with Historian Asiff Hussein, the Author of The Great Days of Colombo. By...
By Prof.Kirthi Tennakone, National Institute of Fundamental Studies We hear incidents of tear gas deployment somewhere almost every day and too frequently in Sri Lanka these...
For the majority of the troubled economies of the global South, it will be a case of narrowing foreign policy options. For many of these countries,...
by Chandre Dharmawardana chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca A common tale of woo today is that “…people… have been waiting in queues to buy petrol, diesel and cooking gas, not...
There are lots of novel ways to promote a food festival – ‘Hot and Spicy,’ “Spicy and Nice,’ ‘The Best of Everything,’ ‘Grandma’s Kitchen, etc. As...
By Anushka Kahandagamage, University of Otago, New Zealand This essay is about how our politicians look at educational reforms. The positions of two of the key...
By Austin Fernando I am proud that I have served all Executive Presidents of Sri Lanka from Presidents JR Jayewardene to Gotabaya Rajapaksa at some stage...
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA This may come as a surprise to you, but we’ve been here before. In August 1953, there was a two-day work stoppage and...
by Dr. Sumedha S. Amarasekara Sanja De Silva Jayatilleka’s (SDJ) article, ‘Why Ranil Wickremasinghe cannot be my President in The Island 18.07.2022, discusses elegantly the constitutional...
By Jehan Perera Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been nominated by the SLPP general Secretary as the ruling party’s candidate for election to the Presidency to...