By Uditha Devapriya
Sri Lanka’s future lies in its ability to balance the three great powers in – and not of – the Indian Ocean: India, China, and the US,…
By Rumeth Jayasinghe
“Our country is crashing and will soon no longer be the world standard, which will be our greatest defeat frankly in 200 years. There will be no…
By Uditha Devapriya
On July 2 and 3, Factum held its first Ambassadors’ Day at the Kataragama Esala Perahera. The event was attended by the Bangladeshi High Commissioner and the…
By Vinod Moonesinghe
Historically, Sri Lankans have tended, whatever their faith, to tolerate other faiths. Indeed, to some extent every religion on the island has been influenced by the others.…
By P. K. Balachandran
China’s aggressive posturing on the Sino-Indian border, its support to Pakistan-based anti-Indian Islamic terrorists, and its bid to encircle India in South Asia, are key factors…
By Aavin Abeydeera
Since its inception as an international sport, cricket has held the position of being a sport detached from real political meaning.
On the pitch, nothing matters, except…
By Rathindra Kuruwita
Bloodshed has been averted in Russia, probably to the relief of many who didn’t want further destabilization of the international order.
Russia seemed to be on the…
Martin Wickramasinghe
By Christine Hill Smith
With a human history going back to 500 BCE, Sri Lanka has endured and occasionally benefited from over 450 years of European colonization, starting in…
By Kanishka Goonewardena
“Capitalism is nothing if not the displacement of politics by economics.”
This provocation by Fredric Jameson, the leading Marxist critic in the US, offers a fine…
By Britney Martil
The X-Press Pearl disaster, which unfolded on May 20, 2021, near the coast of Sri Lanka, stands as a harrowing event with profound consequences that have reverberated…
By Lakmali Bhagya Manamperi
In Sri Lanka, the right to life had long been waiting for constitutional recognition. Only last year, with the most recent constitutional change, did Sri Lanka…
By Aavin Abeydeera
Enjoying its position as the middleman between Europe, the Middle East, and greater Asia, Türkiye’s elections have always made it to the front page. Should an election…