Sri Lanka’s state university system, with its enviable human resource base, is on this job. But due to structural problems such as funding for ongoing projects, the availability has been short of the ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman scholar and statesman, said “A budget should be balance, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered ...

This dreaded collapse of class- a product of breed that teaches us etiquette, decorum and calmness of wisdom, and finesse and refined nuances of international diplomacy – might cause many more lives,, ...

There is an insightful saying with a touch of sarcasm and humour from ancient Tamil literature: “It is as though one listened to the entire Ramayana and then asked what the relationship between Rama ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and his National Peoples Power (NPP) ministerial team are a mixed group of different shades of leftists. But AKD is the most experienced of them in ...

The recent assassination of contract killer Ganemulla Sanjeewa by another contract killer, identified as Samindu Dilshan Piyamanga Kahadanaarachchi, has once again exposed critical vulnerabilities in ...

The technical breakthroughs of the last few decades have immensely contributed to society, shrinking the communication gap and connecting us in ways once unimaginable. On the surface, this seems true, ...

If the establishment media’s longstanding coverage of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) hasn’t already revealed his alignment with establishment interests, the analysis of his proposed budget should make ...

අතීතය ආවර්ජනය කිරීම බොහෝ විට කල් පවත්නා බලපෑමක් ඇති කරන ලද විශිෂ්ට පුද්ගලයින් පිළිබඳ මතකයන් යලි ...

In 2009, Mahinda Rajapaksa conquered Sri Lanka. In 2010, he set out to conquer the world, with an address to the Oxford Union. Though the visit was a private one, a 100+ delegation accompanied the ...

We would like to extend our gratitude to our colleagues for their well-argued piece on why Sri Lanka should not adopt nuclear energy. This is our opinion about the piece which was published in the ...

Destabilisation and regime change have been the US strategy right along. The US lapdog, Israel is right behind it. At times it’s difficult to distinguish the paradox as to who the lapdog is or who the ...