By Lynn Ockersz The humble Ploughshare, Much handier than the Spear, Daren’t be put aside anymore, As a yoke of disgrace, Now that tilling the soil,...
By Shamindra Ferdinando A steady stream of press releases, issued during 2022, by Colombo-based diplomatic missions, UN and its agencies, and those representing INGOs, depicted a...
A Review of Ayesha Wickramasinghe’s ‘The Dress of Women in Sri Lanka’ by Laleen Jayamanne Dr. Ayesha Wickramasinghe, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Textile...
By Lynn Ockersz Pained eyes looking into the horizon, And finding nothing there for them, Save stiffer bills and starvation diets, Have taken to ‘Ice’ and...
In spite of speculation over possible alliance between the SLPP and the UNP, serious issues remained to be addressed. The continuing disagreement on allocation of Cabinet...
By Lynn Ockersz In bombed-out Kyiv, Homeless folk are in a huddle, Hunger gnawing their innards, Chill winds knifing their sad faces, Their once comfy cottages,...
Regular revelations, pertaining to high profile scams that had undermined revenue collection, underline the pathetic failure on the part of Parliament to ensure financial discipline. The...
By Lynn Ockersz Lo, the cruelest contradictions, Come chiming-in at year-end, With frenetic shopping peaking, Amid the chatter of cash machines, And make-believe winter fantasies, But...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Narendra Fernando, Sergeant-at-Arms of the crisis-ridden Parliament, has declared that the largest number of students, in the post-independence era, visited the House on...
by Kalinga Tudor Silva The current crisis in Sri Lanka is multi-faceted with economic, political, and social aspects impinging on one another. The economic and political...