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…
By P. K. Balachandran
In the May 14 elections to Thailand’s House of Representatives, the youth-led progressive Move Forward Party (MFP) emerged as the single largest group, getting 151 seats…
Declaration of the 1972 Constitution / Courtesy: Sirimavo Bandaranaike Museum
By Chandani Kirinde
In an article published in the Ceylon Daily News of Monday, May 22, 1972, titled “The making…
By Dhanuka Bandara
Gaadi, the latest film by the veteran Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage, has renewed general interest in the twilight years of the Kandyan kingdom.
Gaadi – which…
By Malidu Mihisara
Aluth alut de nothanana jaathiya lowa nonagi Siga kema beri wunu thana lagii gaya mara gii
These lines were written by the Sri Lankan poet and author Cumaratunga Munidasa.…