The case of Kathiravel Thayapararaja appearing from the ‘dead’ cannot be taken lightly. If not for his arrest by the Indian police the world would have continued to believe the University Teachers for Human Rights report, continued to accept the …

‘Dan ithin Vesak balanna yanna baya nehe; bomba pipirenne nehene (Now, after all, we can go to see the Vesak decorations without fear; there are no bombs exploding).’  This is what a neighbor who sells betel, sweets and sometimes king …

By  Darshanie Ratnawalli

(Courtesy of  The Nation)

Once upon a time, when the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo was not as respectable as they are now, they commissioned. A. ThevaRajan, currently a member of the Transnational Constituent Assembly …

By Bandu de Silva

In my last article entitled “America’s Indian Ocean bases, US Geneva Resolution ,……..” published in your website  I did not discuss the significant impact that US’s Strategic Rebalancing Plan toward Asia-Pacific (SRPAP) might have on the …

Putin isn’t dragging the world back to the 19th century. Obama just needs to stop pretending it’s 1991.

Source:

www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/06/sorry_america_the_new_world_order_is_dead_russia_ukraine

Russia is dragging the world back into the 19thcentury, at least according to Barack Obama’s administration. “You just don’t in …

By V Suryanarayanan

Nalin de Silva

Courtesy of Daily News 2^nd May 2014

From day one the two factions in the TNA have been competing with each other to win the support of the dispersed Tamils in the Western countries. It is …

It was on 1^st May 1993, at the UNP May Day Celebration that LTTE eliminated a sitting President and blew him to smithereens using its infamous suicide human bomber. President Premadasa is remembered by many in different ways.

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