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By P. K. Balachandran
India-Sri Lanka relations are undoubtedly at their best now, thanks to India’s timely and generous assistance to its financially-beleaguered…
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By Chandani Kirinde
In 1918, George Wille, a Member of Ceylon’s Legislative Council, cited an interesting metaphor to describe the growing weariness among…
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By Uditha Devapriya
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland is on a tour in South Asia this week. From…
By Vinod Moonesinghe
A 2002 poll carried out by the BBC, accompanying its TV series “Great Britons”, found that most viewers fancied wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill as the “Greatest…
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By Uditha Devapriya
Sumitra Peries passed away last Thursday, 19 January. One of the last…
By Kasun Thilina Kariyawasam
“The dollar is our currency, but it's your problem.”
John Connally, US Treasury Secretary, 1971
In the post-COVID global economy, Emerging Markets were hit with a…
By Dr Ranga Kalansooriya
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tweeted his predictions for 2023 last month. He noted that “all the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave…
By Sachie Panawala
In its report in 2018, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) defined scientific literacy as an understanding of how…
By Vinod Moonesinghe
With the expansion of proselytizing Christian empires in the centuries before the second millennium, Christianity became a world religion.
As Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta said,
"When the missionaries…
By Chandani Kirinde
What prompted the US government to put in place a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War and how successful were these clandestine efforts at…
By Kasun Thilina Kariyawasam
A total of USD 1,737.2 billion has been invested in the sovereign debt of emerging markets over the last 12 years. As a result of the…
By P. K. Balachandran
In a sharp turn towards authoritarianism and archaic religiosity, Indonesia’s parliament is expected to pass, later in December, a new Criminal Code that will extend the…