Image courtesy AlJazeera The petition from 182 economists and development experts calling for the cancellation of Sri Lanka’s sovereign debt has provoked rather interesting discussions…
Photograph Courtesy Parliment.lk Despite the unprecedented socio-economic and political setbacks Sri Lanka is currently facing, the Government is making preparations to celebrate the country’s 75th…
Photo courtesy of WNPS Last year, Covid dominated all conversations and contributed to the further exacerbation of a multitude of existing man-made environmental and conservation…
Photo courtesy of Aspen Institute Hobson’s choice is not that bad because it offers you two options: you can either take what is offered or…
Photo courtesy of Foreign Policy This article explains a framework for analysing Sri Lankan state formation and understanding the current challenges that the country is…
Photo courtesy of Counterpoint We cared for Indira Gandhi. She understood Lankan Tamil plight and the need for redress, return of lands, control over…
Image Courtesy IRNA “A tangle within, a tangle without…” Jata Sutta – Samyutta Nikaya In July 2020, Indika Rathnayake, a non-theistic online activist, was…
Photo courtesy of Daily News My Lunches with Orson is the title of a collection of interviews that Henry Jaglom, a US avant-garde filmmaker, did…
Photo courtesy Ruki Fernando Panama is a remote village at the southern end of the eastern province in the Ampara district. The slogan often used…
Photo courtesy of The Globe and Mail A Supreme Court judgement, a new US law, Canadian sanctions and United Nations evidence gathering are making it…
Photo courtesy of Medium Religion doesn’t exist in the singular in reality. In the real world it exists only in the plural – over 4,000…
Photo courtesy of Ismeth Raheem Braving sharks, venomous snakes and their own human frailty, the pearl fishers of the Gulf of Mannar would plunge deep…
Photo courtesy of Quora “For Sri Lanka, everyone is important.” Ali Sabri “We lack democratic accountability and transparency in our dealings with the world.” Dr…
Photo courtesy of Kumanan Kanapathippillai The past few weeks have seen a rapid escalation of justice and accountability mechanisms on the national and international landscape…
Image Credit Ishara Kodikara/AFP Ever since the years of de-colonization, South Asian politics has been tainted by dynastic politics, or simply, nepotism. Has it become…
Photo courtesy of The Blue Tree Clinic Sudden death has been at the centre of my life the past few weeks. Two deaths that required…
Photo courtesy of LMD January is usually a grim indication of the perilous state of human rights in Sri Lanka. It is reminder of the…
A murder of crows peck at a katta karawala carcass outside a stretch of fishing wadiyas as the sun sets, leaving a long shadow over…
Photo courtesy of Asian Mirror Among the reprisals faced by prominent leaders of the people’s uprising last year were arrests, detentions, travel bans and continuing…
Photo courtesy of Amila Udagedera We have reached January 9th, 2023. We cannot go any farther or longer or deeper. We are at the turning…
Photo courtesy of News In Asia “They still ask, why are you selling profit-making enterprises, look at the SLT it’s making profits…ask the Secretary of…
Photo courtesy of Global Times We all knew 2022 would be a challenging year for Sri Lanka even before its arrival. But no one expected…
Photo courtesy of Island Life What did this year bring? It brought the Palais des Nations in Geneva to hear my thoughts on poetry…
Photo courtesy of Bloomberg A recent World Food Programme (WFP) report underlines the magnitude of the food crisis in Sri Lanka. The report shows that…
2022 was one of the most momentous years in Sri Lanka’s recent history. An unprecedented people’s movement drove out an elected president and prime minister…
Photo courtesy of Thilina Kaluthotage In some ways, in 2022, life for Sri Lankans has followed a similar pattern to previous years. A few have…
Photo courtesy of Samanthi J. Gunawardana Gnanamuttu Kusumawathi, known as Kusuma akka, passed away five years ago. We remember her rebellious spirit and strength with…
Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera On December 17, 2022, fishermen in northern Sri Lanka alerted the navy about a boat in distress adrift in the…
Photo courtesy of Namal Kamalgoda On this Boxing Day, eighteenth anniversary of the Tsunami I write about the year in which the Aragalaya swept up…
Photo courtesy of Global Press Journal Microfinance is an essential aspect of the economy where low income people often lack access to structured, formal financial…