Photo courtesy of The Borgen Project A social debate over the new education reforms is emerging amid rumors that history and ...

Photos courtesy of Sakuna Gamage August 5 was not just another date in Sri Lanka’s calendar. It was a moment when the nation ...

Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera “Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is ...

While striving toward its development goals, Sri Lanka must adopt sustainable measures to minimise carbon emissions.

Photo courtesy of Dinarzarde Raheem Circular MWFC/1/20201 issued on 4 November by the Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Conservation has caused widespread concern and consternation. This circular seeks ...

Introduction The past decade produced two critical moments of transition in Sri Lanka. On 19 May 2009, a 30-year war came to a brutal end with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ...

Re-displacement instead of resettlement But what is clear is that instead of being resettled, hundreds of families from the four villages of Keppaplavu, Sooriypuram, Pulakudirppu and Seeniyamottai ...

Prosterman in 1976 estimated that some 68 million people have perished from all forms of deliberate human violence from 1820 to 1970. Zimmerman in 2013 found that if the victims of state violence ...

Photo courtesy of AFP Writing in March after studying 2,000 comments against President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s (AKD’s) consequential budget speech, I observed there was “a growing public sentiment ...

There is much confusion as to the causes of a balance of payments crisis. To clear up the misunderstanding requires defining the problem clearly and disentangling several issues. To begin with, there ...

otion Array Within months of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake lifting the import ban on private vehicles, Colombo’s streets ...