Photo courtesy of New Indian Express The currently available Covid-19 vaccines have been authorized for emergency use in Europe and North America. This is due…
Photo courtesy of Newsfirst Sri Lanka hit the lowest point in their COVID-19 response when a 20-day-old Muslim infant was cremated on December 9, 2020 against the…
Photo courtesy of Twitter Today is World AIDS Day When Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first discovered in the early 1980s, it was considered a…
Photo courtesy of Live 24 The title for this article is taken from the motto above the doorway to the morgue. The Latin words translate…
Photo courtesy of Top News Philippines The question of the burial or cremation of COVID-19 victims took a bizarre turn to expose a government at…
Image courtesy of Global Times 2020 has been defined by COVID-19; a year in which citizens, governments and medical first-responders found themselves in a whirlwind…
Photo courtesy of resurj Sri Lanka enshrines a right to universal healthcare but critically neglects women in this universal promise. Acknowledging that abortion is politicized through…
Photo courtesy of Medium Eyes closed, imagine a space where, interspersed among us mere mortals, Demi-Gods (DGs) roam. Each one of us has our own…
Photo courtesy of Deccan Herald Sri Lanka is seeing an uptick in infections with 1,307 total infections with 1,180 new infections confirmed within seven days,…
Photo Courtesy of Norwegian SciTech News Mental illness is not uncommon in Sri Lanka. Most often, mental illness and disorders go undetected due to social…
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 dsrmedias.com Although Sri Lanka managed to control the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the country is now at a critical juncture where political and…
Photo courtesy Modern War Institute, West Point The Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant shutdown of social and community life has meant that the political debate…
Photo via The Economist “I need justice but I am scared even to ask for the medical record. My mother did not have Corona, yet…
Photo by Catherine Lai, AFP via Getty Images, courtesy CNBC More than half a century ago, mankind placed a man on the moon, using giant…
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…
Image via Financial Times The postponement of the General Elections 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic has led to different viewpoints being expressed on…
Photo by AP via ABC News The threefold crisis that our country faces— public health, the constitutional, and political—is exacerbating day by day. In the latest…
Photo credit AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena via The Diplomat The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the lives of people in Sri Lanka and across the globe. The…
Image by Nicolas Ortega via New York Times On 9th April, hundreds of people in Doluwa, in the Kandy district, came to the road demanding…
Image courtesy Quartz India It is with heavy hearts that we have listened to and observed the debates on whether or not burials should be…
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…
Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, left, leaves after addressing the ceremonial inauguration of the session in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Eranga…
Image courtesy EY As Sri Lanka heads towards completing nearly a month of lockdown, with first the special public holiday route adopted from 16th March…
Photo courtesy NewsInAsia “…by tomorrow, everything will already look different; by tomorrow, everything will already feel different.” – Viktor Klemperer (The Language of the Third…
26th March 2020 To: H.E. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Hon. Jayantha Jayasuriya, Chairman of the Judicial Services Commission,…
Photo: AFP, Ishara S. Kodiikara via Asia Times Nominations for the parliamentary elections of 2020 closed late last week and barely an hour after 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 courtesy The Economist Shashika Bandara is an Associate in Research at the Duke Global Health Institute. He tweets at @shashikaLB. As unprecedented events unfold…