The German Embassy in Colombo has sought to clarify Germany’s political situation following news of a surge for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the regional state election in Saxony-Anhalt, stressing
The underlying issue in Anuradhapura is a struggle between a few families who, for years, have waged a quiet cold war over control of the Udamaluwa. Similar situations exist in Mihintale as
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US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing not as the leader of an unchallenged superpower, but as the head of a nervous empire trying to negotiate with the factory floor that now
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While congratulatory messages continue to pour in from across India and beyond, Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar — marketed for decades as “Thalapathy”, the commander — is now discovering that Tamil Nadu is not
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Tamil Nadu has entered one of the most unpredictable political moments in its modern history after a fractured assembly verdict left no party with a clear majority and opened the door to
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Paushali Lass is a transnational consultant, writer, and speaker whose work bridges geopolitics, culture, and identity across India, Germany, and Israel. Born in Kolkata and raised in New Delhi within a strongly
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How does a state come to justify the movement of warplanes over civilian cities as a matter of necessity rather than catastrophe? At what point does strategic language begin to absorb human
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Journalism has always been a contested practice, but in politically sensitive environments it becomes something far more volatile: a struggle over truth, authority, and control of narrative. The case surrounding the “Aisha”
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What compels a young woman raised in comfort to seek proximity to violence? What does it mean to voluntarily step into conversations with those who openly declare allegiance to brutality? And how
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What does it mean when a soldier describes his own life not as a sequence of postings, but as an unbroken continuity between home, border, and operational responsibility? This question sits beneath
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Does witnessing suffering make you more moral? Can a life surrounded by brilliance teach you justice, or does real understanding only come from seeing the world at its worst? For Tom Gross,
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