2nd Death Anniversary of Lt. Sugath Nadeeshan By Admiral Ravindra C. Wijegunaratne (Retired From Sri Lanka Navy) Former Chief of Defence Staff It was the Easter...
THE APRIL 1971 REVOLT – II By Jayantha Somasundaram The JVP evolved in the late 1960s under Rohana Wijeweera as a radical rural youth group. It...
As someone who grew up in the Sama Samaja tradition, the writer wishes that all political parties be ‘national’ in another sense, that they cater to...
THE APRIL 1971 REVOLT – I By Jayantha Somasundaram The 50th anniversary of the first JVP insurrection falls today. The 1971 rebellion was the first armed...
By Professor A.N.I. Ekanayaka Emeritus Professor Easter commemorates a plain historical event. It is the historical bodily resurrection from the dead of Jesus three days after...
By Indrawansa de Silva, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, USA Fifty years ago, thousands of us took to arms in what we thought was the Marxist-Leninist revolution to...
by Kumar David This may appear to be a bold title just two months after the February 1 coup in Burma but it’s true. For starters...
One of my favourite Archie (from the comic strip) stories has Archie Andrews trying to land a job in the summer holidays. He finds one selling...
“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel...
by Jayantha Perera The chief of Wannila eththo (Veddas or forest dwellers) and the Center for Environmental Justice filed a petition recently in the Appeal Court...