Suggestions

  • World
  • Business
  • Arts
  • Politics
0
  • Home
  • Sri Lanka
  • Editorials
  • Defence
  • Business
  • World
  • Essays
    • Politics
  • New Books
  • Disclaimer Notice

0

Culture - Page 4

September 16, 2026
Geopolitics/Interviews/Social

Against Certainty: My Talk with Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

In a wide-ranging conversation, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani reflects on the unsettled nature of identity, the limits of historical truth and the moral responsibility of writing about people who can no longer speak for

Columns/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/Social

Let Comedians Say Anything: Why Comedy Is Society’s Last Honest Mirror

Summary: Comedy thrives on irreverence, vulnerability, and the refusal to accept a society’s official story at face value. As political and cultural pressures narrow the bounds of acceptable speech, comedians occupy a uniquely vital role: they can reveal what is broken,

December 3, 2025

Where Lions and Tigers Remember

Arts/Diplomacy

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most

Loyalty and Disavowal: A Tool for Division

Columns

“O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly and afterward

Hijab: Choice or Rule – An Indian Viewpoint

October 23, 2022
Columns/Human Rights

The Hijab: To wear, or not to wear, that is the question. The question was answered by two Honourable Judges of the Supreme Court but, at the end of the day on

More

Time Now That Hindu Religion Should be Defended

October 10, 2022
India

Millions of Hindus who lived in the past and who live at present time have been believing that philosophy and way of life enunciated by Hindu religion and enriched by Vedas ,

More

Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible

September 24, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

In 2002, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country’s National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival. Founded in 1948 by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso (1920–2019), the school struggled

More

The Role of Religion in Our Society

September 10, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

We are agricultural societies that have industrialized within one or two generations…If you look at Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore – there’s been one remarkable phenomenon – the rise of religion…there

More
Previous 1 2 3 4

LATEST COLUMNS

India in the Mediterranean

On 26 October 2026, Greece’s foreign minister George Gerapetritis stood

Pakistan Rejects the Logic of the AI Arms Race

Pakistan is not simply “falling behind” in an AI arms

Moon over Wuyi — A Personal Account

A personal reflection on Moon Over Wuyi, exploring how art

Youm-e-Shuhada Jammu: Remembering the Muslim Massacre of November 1947

The Jammu massacre of 1947 remains one of the most

The Taliban’s Diplomatic Windfall, the Region’s Security Burden

Afghanistan’s Taliban government is gaining international legitimacy while militant threats

The Roma Test: Czechia’s Reforms and the Persistence of Contempt

The Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission published its seventh report

Thoughts on the Midterm Elections

The Democrats may have taken control of the House and

Unprecedented Blue Wave: Is Trump’s Political Dominance Crumbling?

The Democratic Party has flipped the House and the Senate.

China Shatters the West’s Arms Monopoly

As Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

Tata’s Moment of Truth: Should Chandrasekaran Step Aside?

It is unfortunate that the Tata Group, which has historically

Pakistan’s Four Provinces: A Map of Elite Power

Pakistan’s four-province structure has not evolved since independence. The rationale

Across the Red Sea, the Wars Feed Each Other

Sudan’s war is usually described as an African catastrophe, Yemen’s

The Trump Spell Is Breaking

In lecturing about the state of liberal democracy over the

India’s Defense Ambitions Outpace Its Ability to Deliver

India’s military modernization drive faces an uncomfortable contradiction. New Delhi

Manipur: PLA’s Persistent Networks

On October 27, 2026, a combined team of the Criminal

The Sri Lanka Guardian is an online newspaper founded in August 2007 by a group of concerned Sri Lankan citizens including journalists, activists, academics and retired civil servants. Sri Lanka Guardian has registered as an online newspaper in the Government of Sri Lanka. This portal is currently a platform for over seven hundred regular writers from around the world. We are an independent and nonprofit. Email : editor@slguardian.org
  • Mirror Site
  • Privacy
  • Comment Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Disclaimer Notice
  • Home
  • Sri Lanka
  • Editorials
  • Defence
  • Business
  • World
  • Essays
    • Politics
  • New Books