(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 …

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 then …

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 …

Shenali D Waduge

“On both visits of the UNHRC head to Sri Lanka none of the LTTE victims were even met and UN local office / local NGO representatives or even foreign envoys did not even bother to arrange meetings …

Why would the Kandyan King Senarath dispatch a military expeditionary force under Mudaliar Attapattu to defend the Tamils against the Portuguese in 1619 AD? The answer is simple. The Jaffna province was a kinglet and tributary of the Kandyan Kingdom. …

The IMF was created at a conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944. IMF is accountable only to the 188 countries that compose the IMF. IMF’s role is a conduit to bail out countries dishing out loan packages tied …