Editorial As voting entered its most consequential moment, Donald Trump may have recognised the political damage awaiting his party. On Election Day, he announced that the United States would end its annual
Democratic governments across the world are under strain. Sri Lanka is no exception. Global crises – wars, climate change, economic turbulence, food insecurity, and the risk of new pandemics – test the
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Editorial There is an absurdly misplaced hysteria surrounding a recent visit by a group of Sri Lankan journalists to Israel—a hysteria fuelled by opportunistic social media posts, lazy reporting, and orchestrated outrage.
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Political divisions are not new to Sri Lanka. Nor are they unique to our country. History is littered with disputes, breakaways, and betrayals – often among those who once marched under the
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The aftereffects of years of lawless politics and lack of accountability among the political class and government servants are coming home to roost Sri Lanka after the National Peoples Power (NPP) government
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A previously undisclosed letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping has emerged as a key factor in the recent thaw of India-China relations, Bloomberg reports, signaling a cautious but meaningful shift in the
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Global political history is punctuated by state entities that, after vanishing from the international stage, have reemerged in new forms—sometimes radically transformed, sometimes strikingly faithful to their origins. These revived states—polities that
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Minister Bimal Rathnayake has said Ranil Wickremesinghe should have been arrested about four decades ago over the Batalanda torture chamber, the 1983 racial violence, etc. The former has also flayed the latter
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Editorial Note: This article, originally published in TomDispatch, examines humanity’s survival in the nuclear weapons era and the persistent risks posed by state policies. If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history
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“…there is such a thing as suicide.” ~ Aldous Huxley (Texts and Pretexts) There is a picture (featured) of Ranil Wickremesinghe and Maithripala Sirisena seated side by side inside the Colombo Fort
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by Durga Velayudham “We stand for organised terror—this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.” Lenin’s words, coldly rational yet disturbingly candid, encapsulate a recurring paradox
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by Luxman Aravind If the law is applied equally, without deferential quiescence, can the Secretary to the Ministry of Law and Order continue to function even after being apprehended for drunk driving
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By the early 1980s, South Africa’s system of racial apartheid had evolved from an issue of limited concern to becoming a major issue globally. Years of campaigning by anti-apartheid activists, the Congressional
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by Durga Velayudham When truth falls first to the machinery of war, perhaps beauty must rise first as a whisper of reconciliation. Where borders are etched in memory and mistrust, the Miss
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Editorial Half a century after its publication, George Orwell’s Animal Farm remains far more than a historical allegory; it has evolved into a lens through which to scrutinise the moral bankruptcy of
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by A Warrior The pain I am enduring is neither poetic nor performative; it is a raw, unrelenting testament to service rendered and now forgotten. We fight a war—not for accolades,
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