Wijeyadasa Rajapakse first entered Parliament through the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), which was formed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) together with the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). His name was
Fifty-one years ago, Hannah Arendt gave what would be her final public speech at Faneuil Hall. The occasion was America’s 200th birthday, but Arendt refused the framing: she had come, she said,
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A quiet reckoning is unfolding across Germany as thousands of people confront an uncomfortable truth: the past is closer than they thought. A digital tool released by Die Zeit, allowing users to
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Thamirabarani River (Sanskrit: Tāmraparṇī), is located in the Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, South India. It is on the southeast coast of India, and it sits directly across the Gulf of Mannar from the north-western coast of
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Sixty-five years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, newly declassified documents have shed stark new light on one of the most consequential intelligence failures of the Cold War, revealing how close
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Cuba’s deepening crisis has once again pulled the Vatican into a familiar role. In March, it was revealed that Cuban officials turned to the Holy See to help persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to
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by Nil What, exactly, does it mean to topple a statue and then argue about its meaning? “Yeah, he’s the founder of the country, but 300 slaves is a lot of slaves”
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Jonathan Daly’s The Man Who Knew Russia, through its sustained intellectual portrait of Richard Pipes, is best read not as a neutral scholarly biography but as a forceful argument about Russia’s historical
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Bangladesh presently confronts a moment of acute political strain and profound normative reckoning. The permanent proscription of the Awami League—long regarded as the country’s oldest, largest, and founding political force—through the conversion
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Shariati and Fanon The intellectual relationship between Shariati and Frantz Fanon is one of the most fertile and least studied of the twentieth century. Shariati did not merely admire Fanon; he
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In Ratnapura district, the Kalatuwawa Reservoir has revealed a long-lost village as water levels have dropped by 38.5 feet due to dry weather in March 2026. The reservoir, an artificial water body
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