This interview traces Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda’s journey from JVP revolutionary to political scientist, examining his early experiences of poverty, caste and inequality, his role in the 1971 uprising, imprisonment at Welikada, and
A British historian has reignited one of England’s greatest historical mysteries, claiming she has uncovered compelling evidence that the infamous “Princes in the Tower” were not murdered by their uncle, Richard III
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Fifteen years after a tiny finger bone unearthed in Siberia launched one of the most surprising chapters in human evolutionary science, researchers are still unraveling the mystery of the Denisovans — an
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Leonardo da Vinci, the famous artist and inventor from the Renaissance era, is known for masterpieces like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, as well as his sketches of flying machines
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What makes us think? This question is about the beginning of philosophy. For the early Greek philosophers like Parmenides and Plato, thinking and philosophizing begin in wonder, the awareness of an invisible
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‘White farmers are being brutally killed in South Africa’ warned President Donald this week amid all the uproar and craziness over tariffs, world trade and kickoff of a campaign to force Big Pharma
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The evolution of the human mind has allowed us to transcend our modern understandings of time and expand into the realm of “deep time thinking.” One example of this is the Geologic Time Scale (GTS), a
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The rapid growth of digital technologies in the last quarter-century has multiplied the number and types of possible influences on individual values and opinions. Has the digital era changed the level of
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A groundbreaking study published today in Nature has upended long-held assumptions about the Phoenicians, the ancient seafaring civilization known for spreading culture and commerce across the Mediterranean for over a millennium. While
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Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very long time spans on a global scale. Until recently, most grand narratives that purported
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Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous materials is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history and is evident among prehistoric
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Once whispered about in hushed tones and exoticised through rumours of extended intimacy and esoteric rituals, Tantra has resurfaced in the Western mainstream — not as a salacious secret but as a
More A fossilized jawbone dredged from the seabed near Taiwan more than two decades ago has now been confirmed to belong to the elusive Denisovan species of archaic humans, marking a significant expansion
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A recent study has unveiled remarkable findings about the genetic makeup of two women who lived in what is now Libya around 7,000 years ago. Their DNA, extracted from ancient remains found
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Editorial Gananath Obeyesekere, a man larger than life, passed away today. His death marks the end of an intellectual force that reshaped the very foundations of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the critique of
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Recent research using MRI scans has revealed that babies as young as one year old are capable of forming memories, offering new insight into the mystery of infantile amnesia—the inability to recall
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