Economic Death – The rural regions in the country have failed to consistently clock healthy economic growth and will die out of gradual economic atrophy. Sri Lanka’s perennial sub-par economic growth after independence and its […]

After the civil-war was brought to finish in 2009, the Buddhist Sinhala leaders of the major community, as rulers retained their dominant role, at the expense of minority communities depriving them of their fundamental rights. […]

Locomotive No. 1 is the only locomotive designed by James McConnell to have been preserved. McConnell was the Locomotive Superintendent of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Southern Division at Wolverton railway works and […]

With the end of the civil-war in 2009, as a democracy Sri Lanka should have reduced its extraordinary number of soldiers. However, then president, like a dictator for many other purposes, did not do it; […]

In the play ‘The Jungle and the Sea’ at the Belvoir Theatre, the creators honours multiple languages, faiths, cultures and different philosophies, but never ventures into pointing fingers or siding with one. Instead, it portrays […]

The full effect of the President’s neo-liberal policies enriches foreign corporations and the Colombo elite while sounding the death knell for working class and poor Sri Lankans. Today, the cost of food remains an issue […]

From the time country gained independence 75 years ago in 1948 from the British; our elite rulers have helped themselves with the power for their own benefit. The resulting misrule destroyed the country that was […]

The Sri Lankan Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was initially passed in 1979 as a temporary measure to tackle “elements or groups of persons or associations” attempting to bring about a change of government. It […]

It is true attending my cousin Kitchan Annai’s funeral would have given Kamala and I much needed closure to realize we were not the only ones mourning; but it was not to be, being on […]