Genghis Khan, one of history’s most formidable conquerors, is being celebrated in modern Mongolia as a symbol of national unity, political strength and cultural identity, despite the mass killings and devastation that
Declassified archival material has shed new light on a little-known episode of Cold War history: Britain’s quiet but consequential role in helping the United States conceal its involvement in the 1954 overthrow
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The current liberal surge feels real, a swell in public sentiment that suggests energy and possibility. Polling numbers rise, and political commentators point to renewed enthusiasm for Democrats, but beneath the surface,
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Along Sri Lanka’s northwestern coast, where lagoons edged with palmyra palms conceal the physical scars of a long civil war, a former female combatant describes a peace more punishing than combat. She
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Forty years after the killing of Daya Pathirana, the third head of the Independent Student Union (ISU) by the Socialist Students’ Union (SSU), affiliated with the JVP, one-time Divaina journalist Dharman Wickremaretne has dealt
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Introduction The question of nationalism in Sri Lanka remains one of the most consequential yet least understood issues in modern South Asian history. Satyagraha: The Freedom Movement of Tamils in Ceylon by
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A wave of renewed allegations from analysts and former investigators is drawing attention to what they describe as a covert nexus between Western intelligence agencies, historic trade practices, and influential transnational institutions
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A great-grandson of Benito Mussolini has sparked controversy in Italy by defending the legacy of the fascist dictator in a new book, claiming that the regime was “not so bad” and that
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I read a news article today stating that the Special Task Force of the Sri Lanka Police, with the assistance of Military Intelligence, recovered three well-preserved and buried 84 mm Carl Gustaf
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The first Marxist coalition government in Sri Lanka was formed by the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). The Finance Minister of this government was LSSP
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From the moment a visitor stands at the foot of Sigiriya and looks up at its mist-veiled summit, a strange quiet seems to press down on the landscape. The sheer granite monolith,
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When Hugo Chávez arrived in London in October 2001, two years into his presidency, the visit was presented as routine diplomacy between allies. Chávez was scheduled to meet prime minister Tony Blair
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One needs a huge audacity and imagination to write a political satire, as it can always be a double-edged sword. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and George Orwell’s famous Animal Farm are examples
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Editor’s Note: This essay is based on excerpts adapted from Germanicus, Rome’s Unlucky Prince by Alessio Perry. The Mysterious Death of a Beloved Man Their friends were waiting anxiously in the antechamber.
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by Durga Fatima Bhutto’s The Hour of the Wolf arrives disguised as a book about animals, even as it quietly dismantles that premise almost from the start. What it becomes instead is
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by Luxman Brooke N. Newman’s The Crown’s Silence is a book that does not merely revise British history; it indicts it. Written with the precision of an archival historian and the moral
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