Dayan Jayatilleke

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke is a Sri Lankan diplomat, political scientist, and former Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. He has written extensively on Sri Lankan politics and international relations, including “Sri Lanka: The Travails of a Democracy” and “Fidel’s Ethics of Violence: Revolutionary Moralism and the Cuban Experience.”

September 12, 2026

Diplomacy/Geopolitics

Can BRICS Break the China-India Blockade?

The 18th BRICS Summit will be held in New Delhi, India, on September 12-13. This is already India’s fourth time assuming the BRICS rotating chairmanship, and the international community is closely watching

Diplomacy/Social

Sex, Violence and the Death of the Modern Man

David Szalay is a quiet man, seemingly comfortable with solitude and silence, whose existence has been somewhat unsettled by winning the Booker Prize. As El País reports in its interview with the writer, Szalay, born in Montreal in 1974, now

September 12, 2026

AI’s Insider Warning: The Race May Be Outrunning Control

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats: “crunch time” and “endgame”. The first refers to the year or two

50 Years of Buddhist Service Honoured in the United States

Social/Sri Lanka/United States

Venerable Dr. Walpola Piyananda and Venerable Dr. Madawala Seelawimala have been honoured in the United States for what organisers described as 50 years of

Fidel Castro Centenary: The Last Homeric Hero

August 18, 2026

Editor's Choice/History

The month he turned 50, my father, Mervyn de Silva, and my mother, Lakshmi, were in Havana watching Fidel Castro take over the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement at its 6th Summit.

The Sallay Affair and Sri Lanka’s Deepening Political Fault Lines

June 11, 2026

Human Rights/Politics/Sri Lanka

“Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice’” ~ Jesus Christ, in Matthew 9:13 Anura’s JVP-NPP administration will enter history as the one which jailed the highest number of

Sri Lanka: This Is How Nations Betray Their Defenders

January 2, 2026

Columns/Geopolitics

I have no intention of even implicitly commenting on the legality of the ongoing incarceration of Douglas Devananda. I’ve no legal background, and that’s because, having been selected for the Law Faculty

Sri Lanka: Kadirgamar’s Unbroken Line

August 12, 2025

Columns/Geopolitics/Sri Lanka

Remarks by the author at a panel discussion on the late Lakshman Kadirgamar, held in aid of the Peter Weerasekara Children’s Home, Yakkala. The event took place at the International Women’s Club