(Courtesy of The Island)

By Shamindra Ferdinando

One-time BBC journalist, researcher and analyst, Mark Salter, will launch TO END A CIVIL WAR: Norway’s Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka, at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo, tomorrow (March 3).…

We should celebrate independence only if we function as an independent nation. There is little point throwing tamashas to celebrate independence if we are taking orders from foreign nations or running to them before making decisions or have to get …

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By KAMALIKA PIERIS

The 13th Amendment to the Sri Lanka Constitution owes its existence to the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. Under the Accord the government of Sri Lanka had, inter alia, to devolve political powers to …

By H. L. D. Mahindapala

In 1968 Jaffna was facing an  internal caste war which was threatening to tear it apart.  The simmering caste conflict in Jaffna exploded with the  low-castes, spurred by N. Shanmugathasan, head of the Peking-wing of …

Our mistake has always been to be in a hurry to copy and adopt what is not ours. Must we always imitate other countries? Just because the British had an anthem, or India was to have one did Sri Lanka …

(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 …