Michel Foucault’s examination of how medical, legal and social institutions classify human bodies is returning to public debate with the publication of an unpublished text, The Hermaphrodites, as the French philosopher’s centenary
by Durga The stillness of a remote Canadian community was broken by gunfire on Tuesday afternoon, when a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in northeastern British Columbia set off a chain
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In recent times, India has entered into trade agreements with several countries, with the latest being the agreements between the European Union and India, and between the US and India. Everyone in
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Editorial There’s nothing subtle about the fact that Super Bowl LX on 8 February 2026 will be remembered not for the football but for the cultural and political earthquake detonated by the
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For decades, Noam Chomsky has been one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, celebrated for his relentless critique of power and his insistence that truth-telling is a moral duty, especially when
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I read a news article today stating that the Special Task Force of the Sri Lanka Police, with the assistance of Military Intelligence, recovered three well-preserved and buried 84 mm Carl Gustaf
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May I never not be frisky,May I never not be risqué.May my ashes, when you have them, friend,and give them to the ocean,leap in the froth of the waves,still loving movement,still ready,
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Japan’s political landscape shifted decisively on Sunday as projections from public broadcaster NHK showed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party surging toward a historic landslide in the Lower House election, consolidating
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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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In 2014, the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched the Missing Migrants Project. The project, which ‘hosts the only open-access database of records of deaths during migration on the global
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by Nil In January 2026, the Bank for International Settlements published a dense but far-reaching study that cuts to the core of the modern international financial system. Titled Dollarisation waves: new evidence
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In the first fifteen days of 2026, Delhi recorded a statistic that has sent shockwaves through the capital and beyond: more than 500 women and girls went missing in just two weeks.
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by Our Correspondent in Doha The gap between Washington and Tehran has rarely looked wider. As U.S. and Iranian officials prepare for indirect talks in Istanbul under heavy regional mediation, both sides
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by Luxman Aravind Though Sri Lanka parades one of the highest literacy rates in South Asia and flaunts it as evidence of civilisational maturity within global development indices, the country has repeatedly
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Nearly a month after U.S. military forces intervened in Venezuela and removed Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores from power, the country’s political landscape continues to shift in ways that feel both dramatic
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Fraud is no longer a peripheral crime affecting a careless few. It is now the most prevalent offence in the UK, eclipsing burglary, violent crime and car theft combined, and costing victims
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