Photo courtesy of Daily FT Today is Menstrual Hygiene Day On Menstrual Hygiene Day, we are reminded of the ongoing efforts to normalize menstruation worldwide…
Photo courtesy of Bloomberg The principal problem faced by people due to the economic crisis is of rising prices while incomes for many remain unchanged.…
Photo courtesy of Buwanaka S. Perera The connection between May Day and labour rights began in the United States. During the 19th century, at the…
Photo courtesy of Newswire Animal rights activists and conservationists are up in arms about a plan to send 100,000 toque macaque monkeys to China on…
Photo courtesy of The National News March 20, when the IMF Board approved an Extended Fund Facility for Sri Lanka, now seems a long time…
Photo courtesy of The World Bank The impact of the economic crisis on the working class poor of Colombo over the past year cannot be overstated. Many…
Photo courtesy of Amnesty International A cascade of reports from human rights organisations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have drawn attention to rise…
Photo courtesy of News 1st The crisis facing Sri Lankan society today is the result of contradictions arising from two processes in the specific Sri Lankan…
Photo courtesy of FT Sri Lanka awaited the IMF bailout package to find some breathing space so that it can provide basic needs of energy,…
Photo courtesy of La Prensa Latina “Sir Humphrey Appleby: There is no reason to change a system that has worked so well in the past! Jim Hacker:…
Photo courtesy of WSWS Between 1965 and 2019 Sri Lanka has signed 16 agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), out of which seven were…
Daniel Alphonsus Photo courtesy of Human Rights Watch Countries never learn from others’ mistakes, they only learn from their own. Sri Lanka is an exception:…
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…
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…
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 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 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 Global Press Journal Microfinance is an essential aspect of the economy where low income people often lack access to structured, formal financial…
Photos courtesy of Tashiya de Mel On the northern coast of Sri Lanka in the Mannar District is a place of extraordinary importance to conservation and…
Photo courtesy of The Hindu Suffering through its worst economic crisis since independence, Sri Lanka’s population has been facing hyperinflation for months, forcing many families…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Brief Sri Lanka plunged into a dystopian economic reality in 2022. Even in the present global downturn few countries match…