By Milinda Senevirathna

Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara’s recent comments on Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran contained valid observations, old news delivered as though it was new, half-truths and some uncalled for insults.  Wigneswaran’s response was, in contrast, quite sober …

ByDr.Dayan Jayatilleka

Mangala Samaraweera announced to the Foreign Correspondents Association last Tuesday evening that the government had decided that it was “worth the risk” to go for a referendum on a new Constitution. Lakshman Kiriella reiterated this in Parliament, …

DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA

Would you undergo or put a loved one through an unnecessary but quite drastic, risky surgery? This is precisely what the UNP leadership and Chandrika Kumaratunga are trying perpetrate on the Sri Lankan body politic, through a …

By Hassina Leelarathna 

Two police officers of the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) flew all the way from Sri Lanka in the last week of January 2017 to interrogate an employee at the Consul General’s office in Los Angeles.

What …

LTTE Tamil terrorist’s atrocities against Muslims in war-time and the marginalisation of minority communities in Tamil dominated regions looms large as second Eluga Tamil rally unfolds in the eastern town of Batticaloa. 

 By Dharisha Bastians 

(Courtesy of FT)

Mohammed Ibrahim, …

Shenali Waduge

Buddhism and Buddhist values were the pride of the Sinhale nation for over two millennia. Nothing that this country stood for brought international attention both from near and far than the nation’s commitment to safeguard and foster Buddhism. …

There is little point in raising the national flag if one does not know what the flag stands for and how the national flag came into being. There is little point celebrating independence, if people do not know what it …

Senaka Weeraratna

Sri Lanka together with several other Asian countries owe much in winning their freedom, to Japan’s entry to the Second World War and the resulting chain of events that sealed the fate of European colonialism in Asia.

Jawaharlal …

By Kalinga Seneviratne

(Courtesy of www.independetnews.net)

On February 4 each year Sri Lanka celebrates the gaining of independence from British colonial rule. 69 years since then, it is appropriate to ask: “what independence?” The country is currently in a real …

The fundamental right to a historically held identity is being incrementally usurped. There is a plot to usurp the Sinhale Identity. It must be opposed. The Sinhale identity is in our blood and the Buddhist identity is also in our …