Today is Deepavali, a festival celebrated by Hindus world over, but is an important day associated with the Tamil culture, such as Thai Pongal in January and Tamil New Year anniversary of Chithirai in April, […]

At Navaly in Jaffna Peninsula is serene, pass through fields encounter vast areas of uninhabited land decorated with palmyrah trees to the oil mill. After turning into a by lane the aroma of sesame oil […]

There are various traditional skills are still practiced in the North, in spite of some skills going extinct due to the civil-war. In my village Moolai in Jaffna Peninsula there are still blacksmith’s forge where […]

Venerable Gnanasara Thero is a Buddhist monk once accused of hate speech targeting Muslims, has been appointed head of a panel on legal reforms in Sri Lanka. What’s more the minorities criticise proposed legal reforms […]

With independence all politicial groups in the country had opportunities to rule the country and taste power. Almost all benefited by it and all the citizens got in return was a bankrupt country. Now if […]

Once asked how people could preserve their liberties, Solon replied:“Those who are uninjured by an arbitrary act must be taught to feel as much indignation at it as those who are injured.” A principle which […]

What impressed most was when he came to accept the principle of armed struggle; his strategy was not to seize power by force but rather to make the government negotiate; and when, in turn, the […]

When Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948, the country was a paradise. The British drafted a constitution fit for multi-ethnic and multi-religious country Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then called. Unfortunately, the majority Sinhalese Buddhist […]

On Teachers Day, that coincide with the birth anniversary of Father of Free education C W W Kannangara, that falls today, with people continue to give teachers and principals respect due to good work attitude […]