The ISLAND  Editorial

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has returned home after a successful overseas tour, of which the Sri Lanka leg had been very well planned. It was a diplomatic masterstroke. He paid a floral tribute to the statue …

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 4— Defying the Sri Lanka Government, India sent transport planes and jet fighters over the country’s northern territory today and dropped 25 tons of food and medicine by parachute into areas held by embattled insurgents.…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to take up the issue of growing Chinese influence in Sri Lanka when he meets the island nation’s leadership later this week in Colombo, even as experts remain cautious about giving overemphasis on the …

There are huge problems with the proposed 19^th Amendment to the Constitution.  In this article I’ll focus on just the first and foremost of those, which has to do with the proposed changes to the Executive.  (I am using …

The invitation to the Sri Lankan President to the UK coincides with the 200^th anniversary since the Sinhale Nation was ceded to the British in 1815. If post-independent Sri Lankan leaders shied from reminding the British of their crimes …

The name of the game is divide and rule, self-determination and balkanization all hallmarks of what India cannot ignore despite its efforts to avert or delay the inevitable. Importing Eelam from India to Sri Lanka managed to avert balkanization of …

Does President Sirisena know what Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera is up to or has he been kept in the dark, which isn’t a safe place to be, depending on the company? Does the Parliament or do Mr. Samaraweera’s Cabinet colleagues …

H. L. D. Mahindapala 

The 100-day programme of the “My-3-pala-naya” had no plans to encounter the Nugegoda rally. Not so soon, at least. They thought they could sail smoothly into the imagined “ideal country” located, of course, only in mythical …

“I do not like publicity for the sake of publicity but I would like to see if it is possible through your article to bring about an upturn of those renouncing the world and becoming monks in order to protect …