By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana There is no doubt, whatsoever that the 1983 July pogrom was one of the most shameful events in the recent history of...
The Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR), Victoria Australia, along with like-minded organisations in Australia, England and the Middle East, write to register...
By Chandre Dharmawardana chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca According to The Island newspaper, 25 of July, 2023 [1], the Canadian high Commissioner Eric Walsh in Colombo has barged into the...
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana We live in an era when it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate the truth from fiction. One may have assumed that...
The Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva, went on record a few days ago saying that if all the pilots in SriLankan...
This is a tribute to a senior schoolmate, a fellow boarder at the school by the Beira lake, a scribe to The Island newspaper writing in...
What prompted me to write this letter was the concluding paragraph in Dr. Upul Wijayawardhana’s excellent article, Viceroys’ undermining Sri Lanka’s sovereignty’ published in The Island 24.07.2023. It...
By Jayantha Somasundaram (This articlecontinued from yesterday (25) is based on reporting by the international media on the events in Sri Lanka forty years ago.) “For...
There is a general tendency to denigrate atheists. This seems a bit unfair and irrational. After all, we are all born atheists. We love baby-atheists, don’t...
Monday 25th July 1983 began like just another day. But what we didn’t know was that it was to be the last day of an era....