Navi Pillay’s 2026 Nobel Peace Prize celebrates a lifetime of challenging impunity and defending human dignity. Yet her legacy also raises difficult questions about accountability, political power and the credibility of international
Editorial Today, the thirteenth of August, we mark the nativity of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, a man whose silhouette looms still across the fractured cartography of the twentieth century. Born on the
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor The recent moves by certain Western countries to recognise the Palestinian state have drawn sharp criticism from Israeli diplomats, who describe such actions as a setback for
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Editorial It is not often that one finds oneself compelled to praise a bureaucratic decision in an age when public administration has become synonymous with inertia, nepotism, and the sterile theatre of
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In July, a few days after the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, I had lunch with his daughter, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France. When I commented that Fanon had died so young, at thirty-nine,
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor In a matter of days, a summit of seismic import will convene — one poised to reverberate through the brittle scaffolding of an exhausted geopolitical order. Presidents
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The American Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck handed down to the aspirant-Nobel American president Donald Trump a golden maxim but he seems oblivious of it — although his life is made of
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing mounting criticism after refusing to release key internal documents related to a March 2025 meeting between EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and high-profile fossil
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Editorial When the jackpot owner Lawrence Ho declared that Sri Lanka could become to India what Macau is to China, he may have intended it as a compliment — a bold vision
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Editorial El Salvador’s legislative assembly yesterday voted to abolish presidential term limits, a decision that may appear procedural at first glance but is, in reality, a seismic shift that threatens to extinguish
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor Who guards the guardians once the storm has passed? Who remembers the warriors when the drums of war fall silent and the banners are furled? More importantly,
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Editorial In Sri Lanka’s socio-economic corpus, there festers a malignant industry—one whose roots burrow deeper than commerce and whose consequences are far more sinister than mere consumer discontent. It is not agriculture,
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on L. Alan Winters’ essay “Asia and ‘Reciprocal Tariffs’: Is Regionalism the Antidote?”, published by the National Bureau of Asian Research in partnership with the
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka’s judgment on the X-Press Pearl disaster marks a historic and sobering reflection on environmental accountability, institutional inertia, and the urgency of
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The 80th birthday celebration of former President of Sri Lanka, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga at the BMICH in Colombo provided not just a platform for well-wishers to honour
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Nations can only legitimately use violence to police their citizens if they are simultaneously empowering them with equitable shares in democracy. When this requirement is not met, the use of violence breeds
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