by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The BRICS New Delhi Declaration is less a routine summit communiqué than a broad statement of intent about how its members believe the international system should
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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