Our nation since ‘independence’ has, for the most part, been in the grip of ethnically hostile actions by the Tamil speaking minority against the state to correct the “anomaly of imposing a mono ethnic state […]

Mother nature could be blamed for the natural disasters such as the floods and landslides experienced last week in Sri Lanka, but the deaths could have been considerably reduced and damages minimized had authorities concerned […]

Those words say a great deal about how well Mr. S.J.V Chelvanayakam gauged the plight of his people.  Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam (SJV) entered politics by joining the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC). In 1947 […]

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processing plant is where imported Natural Gas is purified by removing any condensates such as water, oil, mud, as well as other gases such as CO2 and H2S. The gas is […]

Stone carving depicting Tamil civilians held behind barbed wires in camps following end of the civil war in 2009. Mullivaikkal Muttram located in the Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu State in India is today the […]

Legend has it that the Roman emperor, Nero, played the lyre while a great fire enveloped Rome in AD 64. Centuries later, the “fiddling while Rome burns” charges is popularly directed at people who preoccupy […]

‘Most private wrongs are done within family walls, and most public wrongs within the borders of States.  If world opinion is to consider state frontiers sacrosanct then there will be no chance for world progress […]

Public brawl in Parliament We saw this ‘Us and Them’ feeling merge the other day in Parliament. A public brawl within some members of Parliament who trooped into the well of the house in violation of […]

The International Workers’ Day, called ‘May Day’ is celebrated on the first day of May in Sri Lanka. It was made a holiday to honour the workforce that toil round the year for the prosperity […]