(This article firstly released in 2015)

War hero Ratnayaka Mudiyanselage Sunil Ratnayaka is on death row at the age of just 38 for the crime of protecting his country from bloodshed and ruin. Very little is known of Sunil by …

The pioneering Indo-Aryan settlers, who came to be known as Sinhalese later, never stopped making history from the time they stepped ashore. The mission of making history came naturally to them. It was their innate penchant for making history that …

By Kamalika Pieris

The government, the public and even our own soldiers thought that the LTTE was a superior fighting force, said Kamal Gunaratne

A senior minister told Kamal Gunaratne, the present Secretary of Defense, you can’t win the war …

The US embassy Colombo is repeatedly saying $480m is a gift & not a loan from the US to the People of Sri Lanka but then insists on signing an agreement & having it passed in Parliament, affording US troops, …

(Courtesy of Daily Mirror)

According to Mr. Premadasa, the blame for resolution 30/1 ultimately lies with the people who were in power in 2009 and now that they are back in power they cannot arbitrarily withdraw from the …

The former Colombo Chief Magistrate Thilina Gamage has made 3 startling allegations at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on political victimization as per 6 March 2020 Island newspaper article by Shamindra Ferdinando. Mr. Gamage is alleging that UK intervened in …

When the European powers invaded Africa they brought with them their systems of private property. Laws were established based on these systems, in order to justify, entrench and facilitate the takeover of lands from local communities. But such laws were …

(Courtesy of FT)

Aeshea Jayasinghe (right) and Naseema Qureshi at the Sri Lanka Independence Day celebration in Los Angeles: Church of Scientology International 

By Hassina Leelarathna

In a message published in the Sri Lanka America Association of Southern California’s (SLAASC) …

(Courtesy of The Island)

Having received the appointment as Foreign Relations Minister last November, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) leader Dinesh Gunawardena, MP, experienced a torrid time, with his ministry under siege, following the Swiss bombshell accusations that government agents, on …

By Rajan Philips
(Courtesy of The Island)

Last Monday, Modi’s India ‘bowed to the divine in’ (Namaste) Trump. The namaste turned nasty even before President Trump left India after his whirlwind trip. Deadly serious Hindu-Muslim clashes broke out in New …