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
Editorial This is not a mere administrative blunder or isolated misdeed. The recent exposé revealing that Anuradhapura Prison officials, under the facade of presidential clemency, deliberately released dangerous felons with forged documents,
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Editorial On a sultry afternoon, under the cracked sky of a country disfigured by generations of theft and mediocrity, a decades-old Airbus A330-200 took a slow, theatrical descent into Katunayake. It flew
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As NATO’s next summit looms – against the backdrop of an escalating proxy war in Ukraine and a genocidal horror in Gaza – the sane and moral world must roar in defiance,
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Annalena Baerbock’s appointment as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 2025 is, at best, a perplexing gambit, and at worst, a stark emblem of the
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The month of May saw President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka (also known as AKD) coming to terms with the pleasures and pains of democracy in action. This was brought out starkly in two
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Editorial The recent influx of Bangladeshi immigrants into the suburban zones of Colombo, particularly around Katunayake and its adjacent environs near Bandaranaike International Airport, demands urgent and dispassionate scrutiny. What has thus
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The recent sinking of the MSC ELSA 3 off the coast of Vizhinjam, Kerala, serves as a stark reminder of the potential ecological and economic consequences of maritime incidents. This event, detailed
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by Durga You step off a plane at Dubai International Airport. Your carry-on bag clinks softly. Inside are gold bars, chains, and raw nuggets dug from the scorched earth of Sudan. You
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Bankrupt Sri Lanka, struggling to cope up with the deepening economic-political-social crisis, agreed, in late July 2024, to implement an IMF-led economic recovery programme, backed by Extended Fund Facility (EFF). Having self-declared
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by Luxman Aravind A cohort of sycophantic apparatchiks, long relegated to the role of spineless yes-men under previous regimes, has recently resurfaced, styling themselves the “Winning South” or Dinana Dakuna. This appellation—already a semantic misstep given
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor Myanmar continues to bleed under the yoke of militarised oppression, yet refuses to surrender its voice or vision. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Twenty-five years ago, jubilation rippled through the hills of southern Lebanon as Israeli tanks vanished across the Blue Line, pursued not by bullets but by chants of
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“What sheer unfeeling idiocy”. ~ Rolf Hochhuth (The Deputy) May 2024 marked the 15th anniversary of the ending of the long Eelam War. Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardana presided over the annual ‘war-heroes’
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Editorial When a nation begins to collapse, it seldom does so with a grand flourish. The disintegration is silent, incremental, and often politely ignored—until the collapse becomes too catastrophic to conceal. In
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Editorial There are deaths that arrive like storms—tempestuous, obliterating, and total—and then there are those like the passing of Malini Fonseka: a slow extinguishing of a sacred lamp, dimming not into obscurity,
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