Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of 24 defendants after an extensive examination of thousands
“Something has gone terribly wrong… We are the victim of a system.” Ronny (formerly Aharon Leshno-Yaar), a former Israeli diplomat, doesn’t ease into his critique of the United Nations. After nearly four
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“This conflict with Iran is not regional. It is” – in his words – “a war really for the West, for free societies. And I am very much in favour of any
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What occurred in the waters south of Sri Lanka during the first week of March 2026 was not merely another violent episode in the long chronicle of maritime conflict. It was an
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Her trajectory into academia was not the result of a conventional intellectual progression but of rupture, recovery, and reorientation following frontline military service in the Israel Defense Forces. Rather than emerging from
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The following column was first printed in Sunday Island, Colombo.- Editor It is ugly. It is disgusting. No one knows whether he died by suicide or by some other, more carefully arranged
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The Indus Waters Treaty did not create peace — it merely postponed confrontation. In his latest work, Trial by Water: Indus Basin and India-Pakistan Relations, Uttam Kumar Sinha argues that the celebrated
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This column was originally published in Sunday Morning, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. India was not in the West’s favour until the early 1990s, maintaining a close and unapologetic alignment with the Soviet
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In an interview conducted in mid-December in New Delhi by Sri Lanka Guardian, Lieutenant General R. K. Sawhney spoke at length about India’s military posture, strategic culture and national security outlook. His
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Erik Solheim needs no introduction. He was in Sri Lanka during the most pivotal time of the country’s political transition, and he became involved in the affairs of Sri Lanka purely by
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sunday Morning, Colombo US President Donald Trump’s policies battered the global order in ways that were mirrored, if not eclipsed, by the devastation wrought by the
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sunday Island, Colombo, providing insight into Somaliland’s history and Israel’s recent recognition. What if the most repeated claims about Somaliland are wrong? What if
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What is unfolding in Venezuela may prove to be one of the most consequential demonstrations of American military power in the twenty-first century. If Donald Trump’s claim is true—that Nicolás Maduro and
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Ambassador Reuven Azar is a seasoned Israeli diplomat with a distinguished career spanning several decades in public service. Born in Argentina and moving to Israel at the age of thirteen, he grew
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Dynastic politics is inherent to our South Asian genes, be it in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka. We have the occasional accidental leaders, but at the core, the persistent stranglehold of
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Ambassador Satish Chandra, a 1965-batch Indian Foreign Service officer and current Vice Chairman of the Vivekananda International Foundation in New Delhi, belongs to a generation of diplomats whose professional lives unfolded alongside
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