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…
Image courtesy Sooke News Mirror Editor’s note: The following two short stories were sent in by Tara Kumarasinghe. She is “writing on behalf of the…
Image courtesy Newswire.lk Two significant incidents took place on 26 March 2020. Sri Lanka recorded 102 confirmed Covid-19 patients; and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa granted a…
Image courtesy Envato Elements ‘What physicians say about consumptive illness is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but…
Image courtesy LMD There have been no deaths due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sri Lanka. The number of confirmed cases per day went down the…
Image courtesy WHO “Epidemic diseases are not random events that affect societies capriciously and without warning. On the contrary, every society produces its specific vulnerabilities.…
Image Samya Arif/Medium “To discuss the knowledge and status of women today, it is important to know what they have gained and how,” [Kumari Jayawardena]…
Image from Flickr “Try again; fail again. Fail better. “- Samuel Beckett Last year at Easter, sudden acts of violence spread immense fear, injury and…
Image courtesy Saman Wagaarachchi/Facebook Comrade Saman Wagaarachchi had joined the JVP in early 1977 while we were still being held incarcerated for our role in…
Image courtesy The Economist Shashika Bandara is an Associate in Research at the Duke Global Health Institute. He tweets at @shashikaLB. As unprecedented events unfold…
Image courtesy NewsIn.Asia Editor’s Note: A version of this article appears in DailyFT. “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering…
5th of March 2018 marked the beginning of a series of violent mob attacks against the Muslims in the central parts of the country, perpetrated…
Photo from Wikimedia A UN resolution is in danger of leading peace advocates down the wrong path When a peace deal is struck between warring…
Image courtesy Twitter/Ishara Danasekara The appearance of a sign designating an area near the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo as an “Agitation Site” has had a…
Building on the critically acclaimed Corridors of Power project, Frames of Power is a pioneering & unique web platform for citizens to visually model &…
Photo courtesy Voice of America When talking about conflicts around land in eastern Sri Lanka, explanations based on ethnic identity spring to mind. Sri Lanka’s ethnic…
Although the war ended a decade ago, the ethno-political and social fractures from violent conflict endure. On no other day are they more apparent than…
Photo courtesy Amantha Perera A not-so-young man walked into the room of Lasantha Wickrematunge two decades ago. The man had nothing but a recommendation from…
Although the war ended a decade ago, the ethno-political and social fractures from conflict endure. On no other day are they more apparent than on…
Photo courtesy William Peace University Justice Prasanna Jayawardene is no more. The immediate expressions of shock, grief and a deep sense of loss by those who…
Photo courtesy Australian Institute of International Affairs A tumultuous year has ended, and an uncertain future lies ahead. Democratic space is already closing around us,…