By Aakil Riyaz
The Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement entered into force on 17 January 2026, marking a significant shift in how the international community governs Areas Beyond National…
Written by Tarun Perera
South Asia is routinely portrayed as one of the world’s most unstable regions, due to it being the location of nuclear rivalry, a hotspot for radicalized…
By Gargi Wickramasinghe
Shockwaves rippled across Caracas, when news broke of Operation Absolute Resolve. But the tremor did not stay there. It began travelling outward, across the Caribbean and the Pacific until it hit perhaps the most precarious geopolitical fault line in our…
By Gargi Wickramasinghe
In the morning after the removal of Venezuela’s disgraced President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. special forces, an emotional Chavista woman protesting in the streets of Caracas was filmed saying: “Stay alert because they are…
By Dinouk Colombage
If the U.S. can justify the military intervention and deposition of Venezuela’s President, citing national security concerns, then Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine under a similar concern…
By Shiran Illanperuma
For Venezuelans, the new year began with the US illegally bombing its civilian infrastructure and kidnapping democratically elected President Nicholas Maduro and First Lady Cillian Flores.
Hours before the attack, President Maduro met with a Chinese…
By J. Abeywickrema
Who rules when rules disappear?
A single man and a small circle of his closest aides, unknown even to the House of Congress, took it upon themselves to attack…
By Gobinath Ponnuthurai
Episode 1: The Minority Mandate – Why 25% is Not a Democracy
In the lexicon of modern political science, “democracy” is often used as a binary—a state either is…
By Verangika Upananda
Sri Lanka’s climate strategy, historically weighted toward mitigation, can no longer afford to treat adaptation as secondary. For years, Sri Lanka’s climate narrative has centred on reducing…
Written by Eng. Plnr. Ananda Gamage
Sri Lanka has endured a relentless series of climate-driven disasters over the past decade, floods that submerged entire towns, landslides that swept away villages and homes, cyclones…
When Politics Turns PersonalDownload
Cricket is portrayed as a gentleman’s game with a vision to ensure sportsmanship as the eventual winner. Incidents have occurred over the years in the game of bat and ball,…