Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Mirror Her husband, who usually comes home after work, did not return. He always informs his wife by telephone if…
Photo Courtesy of Midday The proposed 20th Amendment has several major defects. One of its key faults is that its sponsors and framers have chosen…
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 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 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 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 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 People for Equality and Relief in Sri Lanka Until recently, the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) was housed in a magnificent colonial…
Photo courtesy of the diplomat.com The general elections on 5 August turned out to be an outstanding victory for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the…
Photo courtesy of Hindustantimes.com The results of Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election held on Wednesday show a seismic shift in the country’s electoral map as well…
Photo courtesy of srilankamirror.com The general election to parliament is concluded and the official results are out. The anticipated landslide victory to the ruling Sri…
Image Courtesy of onlanka.com Among as many as nineteen amendments introduced to the Constitution of 1978, three stand as having positively contributed to fulfilling Sri…
Photo Courtesy of feminisminindia.com “We have learnt from many political parties in the world. The best two are the BJP and the CCP (Chinese Communist…
Photo courtesy of Tiruchelvam.com (written for the 21st Death Anniversary of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam) This is the time to remember Neelan and Sithie Tiruchelvam. Along…
Photo courtesy of Tashiya de Mel This is a callout to Sri Lankans who have enjoyed our forests. If you have ever spread your picnic…
Photo courtesy #unfairandlovely campaign featured on BBC Anti-blackness has no place in 2020, not even at your dining table. At dinner tonight, when that awkward…
Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images, taken off Middle East Institute In what must surely count as one of the most hilarious, unintentionally ironic…
Image courtesy Lanka Views Ramzy Razik was arrested on April 9, 2020 at his home off Katugasota in Kandy by the CID. The next day,…
Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images from The Interpreter It is a modern morality tale about the dangers of misusing the military, of militarising…
Featured image courtesy Reporters Sans Frontieres Today, 3rd May, is World Press Freedom Day. It is a good day to assess state of Freedom of Expression,…
Photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP via NPR Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Easter Sunday attacks, in which eight IS terrorists senselessly murdered 269 Catholic…
Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images The Easter Sunday attacks were brutal and unprecedented. It surfaced communal prejudices and certain phobias that Sri Lankan society lives…
Photo by AP via ABC News I refer to the Daily Mirror article, of today’s date, on the date for summoning the new Parliament after…
Image courtesy Quartz India The Muslim community in Sri Lanka has been engaged with the government in a debate to allow persons who died after…
Photo courtesy NewsInAsia “…by tomorrow, everything will already look different; by tomorrow, everything will already feel different.” – Viktor Klemperer (The Language of the Third…