Wesak Day is marked with great veneration in Sri Lanka. It is the day celebrating the birth, enlightenment and passing away of Buddha. It is one of the most colourful events in the world. It is also a day many …

The hardest thing about saying goodbye to a departed one is not being able to say goodbye, as with flowers and incense, a last long look, prayers for the journey ahead, or a final touch.

Yet, that’s how family and …

(Courtesy of Financial Times)

God has called a ‘time out’ for humans and asked us to get off the field until they purify it again. But will we be allowed back again? If so when and under what terms and …

(Courtesy of Financial Times)

The dissolution of the Parliament by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the postponement of the General Elections has led to many legal arguments.

By Gazette Extra Ordinary No. 2165/8 dated 2 March 2020, the President issued a …

The recent article by Dr. Nihal Jayawickrema reconfirms the doubts many have that the Election Commission was up to mischief and committing a series of blunders. The situation requires the President and his legal advisors to promptly mitigate the crisis …

The President in dissolving Parliament on 2^nd March & setting a new date for polls followed all the rules. Having set a date it was left to the Election Commission to conduct the polls. Yes, the country was facing …

This is a sequel to your above captioned article by Gehan De Checkera published in the online edition of the 25^th April issue, quoting lawyers and HR activist critical of the Prevention of Terrorism Act., under which Lawyer Heejaz  …

The country is facing a situation it has never before had to face. Plucking Articles from the Constitution and crying to the Supreme Court without helping deal with the situation, shows how bankrupt the politicians making a furor are. It …

The calls to reconvene Parliament come from the same coterie of people who orchestrated regime change in 2015 capitalizing on a Presidential Election victory to bring to power a minority UNP government and place Ranil as PM without removing the …

Each time the Rajapaksas win a legitimate mandate from the people the moralising mafia comes out howling mendaciously that it is going to be the end of democracy. Historical evidence, however, has debunked this canard of the hired fear-mongers. If …