Trinity College, Kandy, symbolizes the distinctive educational environment Sri Lanka experienced under British rule, as the institution embodied Victorian values and closely followed the English public school model. Established by Rev. Richard
Editorial The plaintive bleats of Sri Lanka’s opposition parties, predicting the imminent collapse of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government, ring more of desperate fantasy than grounded political calculus. The notion that this
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Sri Lanka’s pursuit of clean energy is vital, but its current enthusiasm for large-scale wind farms warrants immediate and critical reassessment. Scientific evidence, coupled with Sri Lanka’s unique national context, indicates that
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In the last presidential election, the Cardinal and the Church were faced with three potential candidates: Ranil, Sajith, and Anura. Of the three, Ranil’s father hailed from a Christian family, and his
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by A Special Correspondent Introduction: The Spirit of Kalama Sutta The Kalama Sutta, one of the most rational and investigative discourses attributed to the Buddha, begins with a powerful exhortation: “Do not
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by A Correspondent in Colombo A man standing in queue for days during the Sri Dalada Vandana pilgrimage has died of a sudden heart attack, highlighting the dangerous overcrowding and disorganized conditions
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by Durga Velayutham In post-war Sri Lanka, few periods have been as morally disorienting and civically corrosive as the one we currently inhabit. A festering malaise has taken root, not merely within
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by Our Political Affairs Editor April 23 stands as a solemn commemoration of the death of Lalith Athulathmudali, a towering luminary in Sri Lankan political history. His life, cruelly truncated by assassination,
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Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is far from over, as the nation’s public debt has now skyrocketed to a staggering USD 106 billion, according to Professor Wasantha Athukorala, Director of the Postgraduate Institute
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In an address during the sixth anniversary memorial of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith warned of a “deep state” embedded within Sri Lanka’s state machinery, working against the interests
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by Durga Velayutham A little-known Catholic priest appeared on national media recently, proposing a theory so unsettling it jolted the nation out of its lethargic acceptance of sanitised narratives: that a prominent
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12 January 1960 marked a historic moment for the Colombo Municipal Council, as M.H. Mohamed (Mohamed Hanifa Mohamed) became the first Muslim to be elected mayor in its history. The Colombo Municipal
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The following article was originally printed in a supplement published by Ceylon Today, a Colombo-based daily newspaper. by A Special Correspondent Following the submmsion of the FBI’s sworn affidavit on the 2019
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The following article was originally printed in a supplement published by Ceylon Today, a Colombo-based daily newspaper. by A Special Correspondent No atrocity—no matter how ideologically framed or contextually rationalised—can ever be
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by A Special Correspondent in Colombo Six years after the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, a new report by the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR) reveals that Rs. 350.7 million
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Editorial The radiant dawn of Easter morning, once the quintessential emblem of hope, redemption, and divine renewal, has become entangled in a tapestry of contradictions. No longer solely a solemn paean to
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