Concern is growing, at home and internationally, about increasing unwillingness among leaders – especially the president – to accept checks on the power exercised over…
Photo Courtesy of City News “If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.” — Ramsay, Game of Thrones Articles penned…
Photo courtesy of Wikiwand In a rare victory for Sri Lanka’s environmental defenders, the government has decided to cancel the gazette issuing legal documents to…
Photos courtesy of Anoma Wijewardene (To view the paintings and titles please click on the images) Today is the Global Day of Climate Action Themes…
Photo Courtesy of Lakpura Déjà vu? Once upon a time, a mighty government with a two-thirds majority in parliament engaged in political opportunism, and radically…
Photo courtesy of Blue Lanka Tours As the Twentieth Amendment Bill is brought before Parliament – and challenged in the Supreme Court – there are…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Brief The Rajapakse Administration, by Government gazette, published its proposed 20th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s Constitution and subsequently the Secretary…
Photo courtesy of Twitter “If history is continuity and discontinuity, resolution and catastrophe, it is also surprise and unanimity; a total fascist state that in…
Photo courtesy of Vikalpa The debate on the proposed 20th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s 1978 Constitution is gathering momentum. The proposal which has been in…
Photo courtesy of Magzter At the ceremonial opening of our first Parliament on 4th February, 1948 Mr. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike addressed the nation…
Photo courtesy New Indian Express The 20th Amendment to the Constitution Bill (20A) has been published. If I were to describe it in one sentence…
Photo courtesy of LMD The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, drew the attention of the world to the situation in Sri…
Photo courtesy of Lankaweb As the country hurtles along the path of development at any cost, its environmental defenders are facing a host of challenges…
Photo Courtesy of The Bar Examiner The proposed 20th Amendment to the constitution seeks to repeal/amend all changes introduced by the 19th Amendment save three.…
Photo courtesy of LAOMS Today is the UN International Day of Democracy where this year’s theme is COVID-19: A Spotlight on Democracy. The pandemic is…
Photo Courtesy of The Daily Mirror The elephant is a symbol of pride, and of cultural and religious significance to Sri Lankans. They have been…
Despite their contribution to the lucrative tea industry of Sri Lanka, the voices of plantation workers often go unheard and their potential unrecognised. Thé Kahata is…
Photo courtesy of Selvaraja Rajasegar September 9, 1990, 5.30 pm. Armed men clad in military uniform and civilian clothes instruct people from Sathurukondan, Kokkuvil, Pachchaiyadi…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Mirror The proposed 20th amendment will be the death of free and fair elections in Sri Lanka. The study of…
Photo courtesy of The Economic Times The looming presidential election of the first week of November, 2020 draws some resemblances to that which confronted John…
Photo courtesy of Tharmapalan Tilaxan A road is cut through the Sinharaja World Heritage Site forest with the approval of the president, illegal trawling in…
Photo Courtesy of Selvaraja Rajasegar On 18 May 2009, this mother traveled to the army-controlled area via Mullivaikkal Vattuvakal. There she handed over her 33-year-old…
Photo courtesy of Aleena Cader It was a dramatic moment: a tall, well-built young man dressed in white with a black band tied across his forehead…
Photo courtesy of Aleena Cader In different parts of Sri Lanka, families of the disappeared came together to hold events to commemorate the UN Day of…
Photo Courtesy of WSJ Opinion The US presidential election is due in November this year. For people in Sri Lanka, as in much of the…
Today is International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. “I am the luckiest mother in Sri Lanka. I got my son’s body back. There…
Images Courtesy of Saskia Fernando Gallery Ten years ago, activist and contemporary artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara created an exhibition called The Vigil and Other Works, dedicated…
Photo courtesy of San Diego Union-Tribune Article 9 of Sri Lanka’s Constitution states: “The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty…
Photo courtesy of Hefraz Hizbullah Hejaaz Hizbullah is my younger brother, and this week, on August 25, he spent his 40th birthday in detention at…
Photo courtesy of Readphotos The Jathika Chintanaya which emerged in the 1980s and matured in the 1990s continues to exert a considerable influence on mainstream…