It’s a mischievous headline, admittedly. Citizens are not taking the judges to court. And, even if that happened, the simple matter of interest-conflict would force…
There are all kinds of yahapalanists. There are those who cannot be in denial simply because they were right in the middle of the…
Over the last few weeks there has been a concerted campaign in social media attacking President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The ‘Gota Fail Campaign,’ as it…
Percy. Ape Percy. Percy from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Percy. Sri Lanka’s One-Man Cheering Squad. Percy Abeysekera. Cricket lovers know him and not just fans…
Percy. Ape Percy. Percy from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Percy. Sri Lanka’s One-Man Cheering Squad. Percy Abeysekera. Cricket lovers know him and not just fans…
Last week, i.e. just before the final of IPL 2020 between the Delhi Capitals and the Mumbai Indians, there was a lot of chatter about…
Santhush Weeraman. An individual. Santhush Weeraman, in many ways inextricably linked to Bathiya Jayakody. One is not spoken without reference to the other. Like…
Apparently the average person scrolls through 300 feet of mobile content every day. Of course this doesn’t mean that the average person reads all the…
It was obvious not a year that made for pomp and pageantry, even if that was the desire. All issues have been either framed…
I met Theresa Nichols serendipitously on Dharmapala Mawatha, almost a year ago. She’s a retired park ranger and a writer of children’s books who lives…
Everyone has had a childhood. Not all childhoods are pretty, made of smiles and laughter, ribbons and toys, kite-flying and paper boats. There’s wonderment.…
Draconian. Dictatorial. Authoritarian. Hitler-like. These are the words that were used when Gotabaya Rajaakssa first announced the decision to contest, throughout the election campaign…
Karthik Krishnaswamy has posed an interesting question in an article titled ‘The Superhero Gamble’: Where would the Delhi Capitals be without Marcus Stoinis? He…
Almost thirty years ago a bunch of young people, mostly undergraduates, spent a few days in a small temple in Matara. Anandaramaya. Pallimulla, Matara. They…
මීට අවුරුදු තිහකට ආසන්න කාලයකට පෙර තරුණයින් පිරිසක් මාතර පල්ලිමුල්ලේ පිහිටි ආනන්දාරාමයට එකතුවූයේ දේශපාලනය ගැන සංවාද කිරීමටය. ඔවුන්ගේ අරමුණ වූයේ දේශපාලන සංවිධානයක් ගොඩනැගීමයි. ඉතිහාසය,…
Somewhere in the Eastern Province. Somewhere in the Dry Zone, so called. A tank. A swing. A capture and that which resists all capture.…
Illustration: Aysha Maryam Cassim There are unanswerable questions. This, for example: When voracious readers die why is it that their mortal remains do not turn…
Not that public opinion was sought for the 19th! Crisis. This is interestingly a word that at some level warms the cockles of a…
A long, long time ago, in a letter to the editor of a Sinhala newspaper, a reader spoke about a group of young men…
There’s not much cricket being played these days. There’s Zimbabwe in Pakistan. There’s the IPL. I hardly ever watch cricket but do like to…
According to estimates based on previous patterns and polls, around 60 million citizens of the USA will go to the polls on Tuesday the 3rd…
Pic courtesy www.dailymirror.lk Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Admiral (Rtd) Jayanath Colombage, said quite a mouthful when he said Sri Lanka has an ‘India…
It’s not just in ‘clinical studies’ that there’s ‘conflict of interest’ There’s something very basic in any competitive activity ruled by, well, rules and…
‘Secure the borders!’ Secure the borders? That sounds like a slogan. A political slogan. Not that there’s no reason to be political or talk/write…
Walter Wallace. Who is he? Well, I didn’t know about him 24 hours ago. The entire world didn’t know about him. Just like they…
Draconian. A plan for self-aggrandizement. The death of democracy. In violation of established parliamentary procedure. These are some of the terms and lines being used…
There were voices. Loud voices. The end of democracy is at hand, we heard them say. Sovereignty is at stake, they said. All about the…
It is not hard to understand US Ambassador Alaiana B Teplitz’ angst. China, along with Japan, owns the debt of her country, the United States…
[a tribute to Arjuna Parakrama] I want to write a few words about Arjuna Parakrama. He was the chess coach of my school and at…
Rafael Nadal defeated world number 1 Novak Djokovic in a surprisingly one-sided French Open final (6-0, 6-2, 7-5) to win his 13th (!!) title at…