Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Guardian It is with tremendous sadness that I write about the passing of D.B.S. Jeyaraj. He was a ...

Photo by Noopura Liyanage Seventeen years after the Mullivaikkal massacre, remembrance remains necessary. But remembrance without reflection risks becoming ritual and ritual without political clarity ...

Photo courtesy of UNFPA Towards the end of 2025, Sri Lanka received $50 million from the World Bank to accelerate its digital ...

Photo by Jithmi Athukorale For decades, the Tamil people have endured war, displacement, political betrayal, economic neglect and repeated cycles of disappointment. Yet despite these hardships, the ...

Every monsoon season in Sri Lanka now arrives with familiar images: submerged homes in low lying districts, landslides ...

Photo courtesy of AP One of the most damaging features of the collapse of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was the speed at which ...

There have been intense public debates over the meaning and interpretation of the Constitution, and especially the far-reaching changes introduced by the Nineteenth Amendment in 2015, since the ...

Photo courtesy of Youth Policy Toolbox Sri Lanka is undergoing one of the most significant demographic transitions in its ...

Photo courtesy of AP It was not just flattery but a genuine confession by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when ...

As a country seeking to address the legacy of its past war and armed conflicts, Sri Lanka must roll back the overbroad and dangerous laws that have been repeatedly abused to the detriment of its ...

On 20 December 2009, we mark the 15th death anniversary of Professor Cyril Ponnamperuma, one of the best known scientists produced by Sri Lanka during the Twentieth Century. He was both an ...

Photo credit Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters, from Time magazine. Keynote address delivered on 17th October 2011 at ‘Language and Social Cohesion: 9th International Language and Development Conference, ...