1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into
The Ukrainian counter-offensive continues, but it appears to be less intense. Ukraine has not made any significant progress so far, and in some cases its forces have been pushed back. The Russians have published
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by Zheng Bofei Facing an array of unprecedented crises and challenges, humanity today needs wisdom and action to surmount them for better lives. A decade after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed building
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Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are two friendly South Asian neighbors. Official diplomatic connections between these two countries began in 1972; however, their relationship dates back much further. Shared culture and colonial history
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Since the Taliban’s ‘takeover’ of Afghanistan in August, 2021, the female population of the country, comprising 49.5 per cent of the total, is experiencing severe distress, torture, and violence. Their personal freedom
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I met comrade H A Seneviratne during the main trial of the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) held in 1972. He was one of the junior attorneys who worked alongside comrade Bala Tampoe,
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I would be remiss in letting September pass without noting the car-bomb assassination of Orlando Letelier along Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., 47 years ago this month. The September 21, 1976 murder of Letelier, a
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Those who live in Canada as Canadian citizens by birth or as immigrants (permanent residents), as well as non-permanent residents, those who have been visitors to Canada, and those who have heard
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We can all agree that most people want to know about their origins—spanning from their family and ancestral history and even, occasionally, deeper into the evolutionary story. Lately, this desire has become
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by Our Defence Affairs Correspondent Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the mesmerizing theatre of Sri Lankan politics, where the one and only Field Marshal, Sarath Fonseka, dons the cloak of parliamentary immunity
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Three days before the Abu Mansur and Al Bilad dams collapsed in Wadi Derna, Libya, on the night of September 10, the poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi participated in a discussion at the Derna
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