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(By Courtesy of the Island) By KAMALIKA PIERIS The 13th Amendment to the Sri Lanka Constitution owes its existence to the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. Under the Accord the government of Sri Lanka had, inter alia, to devolve political powers to..

By H. L. D. Mahindapala In 1968 Jaffna was facing an  internal caste war which was threatening to tear it apart.  The simmering caste conflict in Jaffna exploded with the  low-castes, spurred by N. Shanmugathasan, head of the Peking-wing of..

India demands Sri Lanka holds a “credible investigation”. Sri Lanka must oblige India. That investigation must cover two important aspects. Firstly, it must cover India’s role in creating, training, financing and supporting the LTTE as a terrorist movement and India’s..

Our mistake has always been to be in a hurry to copy and adopt what is not ours. Must we always imitate other countries? Just because the British had an anthem, or India was to have one did Sri Lanka..

(Courtesy of The Sunday Times) Last week, our INSIGHT team went to the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) that separates Sri Lanka from India to follow up on an earlier investigation into the continuing rape of the country’s sea resources..

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E “And there’s history. A history of India meddling in the affairs of Sri Lanka. There’s the whole story of supporting terrorism with arms, money and training (before the idea backfired). Then there’s the Indo-Lanka Agreement. That’s important and..

(Courtesy of Daily Mirror) Our sister paper “Sunday Times”revealed details last week about an incident of friction between a senior cabinet minister and a senior The Sunday Times Political column scored a scoop by referring to an exchange of words..

H. L. D. Mahindapala Chelvanayakam and Prabhakaran are two sides of the same Tamil coin : Chelvanayakam laid the ideological and the political foundations for  the Vadukoddai war and Prabhakaran executed it. Chelvanayakam was acclaimed as the “father of the..

By KAMALIKA PIERIS   When the Udarata kingdom went under the British rulers in 1815, the flag of the Sinhala king, Sri Wickrema Rajasinha was ceremonially replaced by the flag of the British king, George III. The Udarata flag was..

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E This is a selection from the ‘News Next Desk’ of Kekirilanthaya, Sri Lanka’s friendly neighbor, whose concern for the well-being of Sri Lankans knows no bounds. Who was caught with elephant-tail hair? It has been reported that a..