On the morning of 30 July 1929, a man carrying a small axe entered the upper terrace of the Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura and struck one of its principal branches several
The oldest known engravings consist of zigzag patterns and parallel lines, carved into freshwater mussel shells at Trinil on the island of Java, Indonesia. These grooves, made by Homo erectus, date to roughly half
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Formation of Chabad houses in Weligama and the East Coast sparked a mass agitation across the country, paving the path for many social media pundits to depict Jewish tourists to the island
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Long before Sri Lanka’s civil war reached its bloodiest chapters, one of America’s most influential foreign policy architects publicly argued that the island’s conflict could not be resolved through military means alone.
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The Schutzstaffel (SS) evolved from a relatively small Nazi paramilitary unit into the central institution behind the Third Reich’s racial policies and mass violence, according to historian Bastian Hein in an interview
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For centuries, the ancient Maya have been celebrated for developing one of the world’s most sophisticated systems of mathematics, astronomy and calendrical science, producing calculations that guided royal ceremonies, monumental architecture and
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By November 1988, JVP suspects held in prisons had begun a protest movement demanding either their release or prosecution. The protest commenced on November 3, 1988. The rebel prisoners organized themselves to
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For more than three decades, a woman known here as Dilhani has lived in France, raised by the couple who adopted her as an infant from Sri Lanka. She was born at
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The coming months could bring South Asia and the wider On a humid June evening in Washington, five elderly gentlemen stood quietly beyond the White House gates, watching crowds gather beneath floodlights
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The Government of the Netherlands has formally apologized to mothers who were forced to give up their children for adoption between 1956 and 1984, acknowledging what it described as a painful historical
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More than seven decades after the fall of Nazi Germany, questions surrounding Josef Mengele’s escape from justice continue to resurface through fragments of forgotten records and unresolved investigations. One of the latest
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The second Sunday of the month of June is considered as Father’s Day. We all celebrate this special day with our children. On this day, I would like to share my thoughts
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In a March 2026 paper published in the journal Science Advances, which focused on variability in governance along the autocratic-democratic axis, my coauthors and I found that one of the strongest associations for the 40
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In the mid-1980s, as Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict moved toward a more dangerous phase, US intelligence analysts assessed that Colombo faced a difficult choice: pursue a negotiated settlement with Tamil militants or
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The following essay is based on the speech delivered by the author at a ceremony held in his honour by the Alumni Organisation of the University of Colombo on 2 June 2026
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Deep inside a residential tower in Beijing, where surveillance cameras and plainclothes officers are part of the everyday architecture, You Weijie lives under constant watch. She is the spokesperson of the Mothers
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