President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in his address to the Nation on the Independence Day, said that the government officers were in the habit of seeking Cabinet approval...
India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was an ardent promoter of rationalism and scientific thought, not to mention his penchant for secularism and distaste for dogma....
Protest against ECT being awarded to Adani group of India By Harim Peiris Earlier this week, the Government officially announced that it would not proceed with...
In my article, published in The Island on 02.02.2021, ‘UNHRC: Truth and Reconciliation and the Tamil parties,’ I suggested that the government should, as the first...
During these days of negative feelings, with the pandemic looming at every corner, the recently retired, like myself, might find ourselves neither here nor there! Reading...
I am writing to inform you that I had the opportunity to read your recent document in relation to human rights issues in Sri Lanka and...
I am addressing this note to you as I believe that you are man of the world with a road map for the Nation. I have...
This is an addendum to the letter captioned ‘Is government in self-destructive mode?’ contributed by N.A.de S.Amarathunga, which appeared in The Island on 22nd January 2021....
By Jehan Perera The report on Sri Lanka of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has been much stronger than anticipated. It has shattered the...
Why is it that the UNHRC and other international bodies continuously hold an opinion that is contrary to the common accepted truth in this country –...