Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supremo Veluppillai Prabhakaran along with many senior LTTE leaders was killed in the military confrontation with Sri Lanka’s armed forces in May 2009. With that military
This week my latest book, How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle, is being released. This note is to share what it says in a nutshell. To me, what matters most is
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As the seasons shift into spring and summer, flowers bloom, trees turn green, and the days grow longer and sunnier. However, for many, this time also marks the start of allergy season
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Will Ukraine or Russia Win the war? After Ukraine’s attack on Russian air bases, some pundits are writing that Ukraine is winning the war. At least one American newspaper headlined the surprise attack as
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.– Milan Kundera In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the
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The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. ~ David Suzuki Aviation leaders will meet
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One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on January 20 withdrawing all support for Ukraine. That would have been the
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Point no. 1: 733 million people faced chronic hunger in 2023, according to studies from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Food Programme, World Health Organisation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, and United Nations
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“Tackling climate change is a shared mission for mankind … Let us join hands to contribute to the establishment of an equitable and effective global mechanism on climate change, work for global
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The mystique of engaging with the US President Donald Trump will remain a hot topic. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s sensational visit is the latest instance underscoring that it can be dangerous
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Defining Tamilness in purely national/territorial terms is problematic today, as transnational factors play a crucial role ~ Nira Wickramasinghe, Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Identities It has been
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