Photo courtesy of Facebook Today is National Archaeological Day “A city without old buildings is like a person without a memory.” “We will probably be judged…
Photos courtesy of Firi Rahman Today is the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development Sri Lanka is a pluralistic society where communities…
Photo courtesy of Roar Media Sri Lankan society is structured on strict gender roles and responsibilities where anything different to heteronormative and binary gender standards…
That we cannot exist meaningfully without language and communication, is a simple concept. A look back at Sri Lanka’s history of language policy shows why…
Image courtesy Thuppahi’s Blog The Sri Lankan government’s Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) program has invested in bridging former fighters’ transition from wartime to peacetime,…
Image Courtesy of Pinterest A poem reflecting on the meaning of independence day. This country isn’t yours to offer, Upon the conditions set by you. You…
Photo Courtesy of BBC News Sri Lanka is led by a man who has, by his admission, two faces. In a more democratic avatar is…
Photo courtesy of Eastern Eye We watched the film, Funny Boy, directed by Deepa Mehta and adapted from Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel, twice. We were…
Photo courtesy of Copyleaks While Sri Lankans are famous for defending their property rights when it comes to land ownership and title deeds, intellectual property…
Photo Courtesy of TimeOut Ratnajeevan Hoole, 2020, Heritage Histories: a Reassessment of Arumuga Navalar a.k.a Candar Arumugavan, London: Thesam Publications, i-xxvii, 327 pages. Professor Ratnajeevan…
Despite their contribution to the lucrative tea industry of Sri Lanka, the voices of plantation workers often go unheard and their potential unrecognised. Thé Kahata is…
Photo courtesy of San Diego Union-Tribune Article 9 of Sri Lanka’s Constitution states: “The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty…
Photo courtesy of Hefraz Hizbullah Hejaaz Hizbullah is my younger brother, and this week, on August 25, he spent his 40th birthday in detention at…
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…