(Courtesy of  The Island)

by Gomin Dayasri

 Initials S.L surpassed surname Gunasekera. Branded to blend with the land of his birth – his name attracted shades of love and despair. Reciprocally, he loved those who made the country proud and …

By   Dayan Jayatilleka

(Courtesy of The Hindu)

Sri Lanka elected a new President yesterday. Having argued for years that (a) Sri Lanka under Mahinda Rajapaksa was no dictatorship but a unipolar democracy because of the meltdown of the centre-right …

(By Courtesy of Asian Tribune)

By Maya Anthony

LTTE fronts overseas that supported violence in Sri Lanka pledged its support for the common candidate Mr Maithripala Sirisena. This includes the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC), a terrorist entity engaged in propaganda, …

By Don Wijewardana

Following are the relevant provisions of the agreement of Common Candidate with other political parties including Pro-LTTE TNA and separatists SLMC:

• Within 24 hours appoint Ranil Wickramasinghe as Prime Minister;

• Within 100 days reduce by

The right to religious freedom does not and should not include the right to convert. Thus, those that are sent on missions to convert understandably cannot be expected to be treated as heroes particularly by a nation that is heir …

Any narrative on Sri Lanka would be incomplete if India’s overwhelming influence in Sri Lanka is not considered. It comes from India’s huge geographic size, economic strength and global political influence from times immemorial.

After the British colonial power exited …

19 Muslims took part in 9/11 none of them were Afghans but Afghanistan was bombed because the plan had been made 2 months before 9/11. Similarly, Gen. Wesley Clarke in an interview with Amy Goodman says that a memo was …

By Roger Jordan 

Tuesday’s publication of the US Senate report into the CIA’s brutal interrogation techniques in the aftermath of 9/11 has shed new light on Ottawa’s complicity in acts of torture.

The response of the Conservative government was in …