A comparative review and reading of Nayomi Munaweera's Island of a Thousand Mirrors and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
By Dhanuka Bandara
It is becoming increasingly clear to the…
By Deshani Samaragunarathna
“Telugu is the new Hindi.”
Ram Gopal Varma
Unlike the American cinema, there is no single film hub in the Indian subcontinent. Bollywood has long held the…
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By Vinod Moonesinghe
Sri Lanka has, for 75 years, faced many internal and external threats, ranging from civil unrest, through insurgencies and military…
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By Rathindra Kuruwita
On February 1, 2023, former editor of Billings Gazette Chase Doak and Billings Gazette photographer Larry Mayer snapped a large…
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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…
As Ambassador / Undated / Courtesy of Sumitra Peries
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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…