Pakistan – Yes, India – No: Kashmir asks why?

A foundation laid way back in 1940’s to ignite a perpetual political inferno in Kashmir and Balochistan by far-sighted trio Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Sardar Patel calculably germinated good dividends. …

By Kanthar Balanathan, Melbourne, Australia

It is a pity that writers, Journalists, politicians from the west and India in particular, are quite interested in nailing down SriLanka in an international forum (UN), which is located in the US. First of …

Courtesy of Bloomberg News.

Sri Lanka’s deepening economic ties with China offer it a cushion from any measures aimed at pressuring the South Asian country into cooperating with investigations into alleged crimes during its civil war.
The U.S. introduced a …

Due to the continuous harassment and interfering with the internal affairs by Indians not only to the small neighboring  countries like Sri Lanka but to the whole Indian Sub-continent for decades, the sentiment of the general public are rising against …

Sri Lanka on Wednesday dismissed a UN report calling for an international probe into allegations of war crimes at the end of its civil war as “fundamentally flawed.”

Foreign Minister G L Peiris said his government rejected a report from …

Israel tightens grip on West Bank

Ahmed Awais is desperate to get out of his parents’ cramped home where he, his wife and three preschool children share one room, sleeping on mattresses on the floor.

Six months ago, the Palestinian …

Do we know how India will vote on the anti-Sri Lanka Resolution? Manmohan Singh says his experts are studying the document.  Yeah right!  Here in Sri Lanka there are no prizes for predicting India’s position.  And yet, right here in …

Indian origin Tamils who make up of nearly  2% of Myanmar’s 55-million population have veered from one extreme to the other in the past 200 years. After independence in 1948, the introduction of land reforms, the imposition of the Burmese …

[Go through this — written 3 years ago — and you will find the guys making noises are the same guys who’ve always made noises when they batted for the LTTE.  The exception is of course Sunila Abeysekera, now no …

March 4, 2014, 7:04 pm

(Courtesy of The Island)

Two hundred and five Tamil Christian priests in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka including Bishop Rayappu Joseph have written to the members of the United Nations Human Rights …