By Lynn Ockersz In the fabled Isle, Said to have been blessed, With all things elevating, No sleep is lost now, On which comes first, ‘Bread...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Having comfortably won the vote on the Second Reading of 2023 Budget, two days earlier, President Ranil Wickremesinghe, on November 24, dealt with a spate...
By Lynn Ockersz Defiant hearts throng the streets, Tugging tirelessly at their chains, Taking on the Iron Fist face-to-face, Which cannot afford to relent, Since for...
by Fr J.C. Pieris It is vitally important to value our freedom more than anything else, as Patrick Henry did and declared: “Give me liberty or...
Indian Premier Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Jaffna Cultural Centre, in March 2015, two months after the change of government...
Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children: by Laleen Jayamanne “Like the war to nourish you? Have to feed it something too.” Mother Courage Chaplin on Seeing...
By Lynn Ockersz Whether they were spirited away, In the arid stillness of the night, In the city’s fear-frozen by-ways, By ghoulish figures in vans, Or...
Can Pulasthini Rajendra aka Sarah Jesmine, wife of Katuwapitiya suicide bomber Atchchi Muhammadu Hastun, reveal something Abdul Cader Fatima Hadiya, wife of Zahran Hashim, couldn’t? This...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, London Author: Shehan Karunatilaka, Publisher: Sort of Books, August, 2022. by S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole DSc (Eng) Lond, PhD Carnegie...
By Lynn Ockersz Womanhood’s been savaged, And made to sink to its knees, By no less a mighty quarter, Than the Long Arm of the Law...