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 fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are
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In his reflection on Hannah Arendt’s insight — “In politics, we are concerned with the world and not with ourselves” — Micah White raises a serious question about the boundary between morality and politics.
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US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing not as the leader of an unchallenged superpower, but as the head of a nervous empire trying to negotiate with the factory floor that now
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America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on a gross misreading of
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In April, the General Services Administration announced plans to automate 1 million work hours annually after cutting nearly 40 percent of its staff since October 2024, with similar reductions being seen across the government workforce.
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In Part I, we introduced Malek Bennabi — the man, the oeuvre, and the five conceptual weapons that constitute his analytical grammar: colonisability, the civilisational triad, mondialisme, the ideological struggle, and the
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The security landscape of India’s North-East in 2026 reflected a complex mixture of consolidation, transition and renewed volatility. While several States sustained the gradual decline in insurgency-related violence achieved over the past
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An image I’ll never forget: a woman passing her baby over the wall at the Kabul airport compound. It was August 2021 and the Taliban was sweeping back into Afghanistan. All I
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“A mother’s love is the gentle whisper that guides us through life’s storms.” The Child Who Doesn’t Remember Mother’s Day falls on the 10th of May, and for many, it arrives with
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The following excerpts are adapted from the speech by General Secretary and President To Lam at the Sri Lankan Parliament. Sri Lanka holds a very special place in the historical memory and
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