A personal reflection on Moon Over Wuyi, exploring how art transcends language and opens a window into Zhu Xi's philosophy, Chinese intellectual heritage and the enduring relationship between knowledge, nature and human
From young officer cadets to generals, Intake 16 of the Sri Lanka Army has left its mark on the nation's military history. As the intake celebrates 45 years, it honours a journey
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The United States and the Soviet Union came remarkably close to an agreement that could have transformed global security by eliminating nuclear weapons, according to previously secret documents released by the National
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Allegations that JVP insurgents attacked the Sri Dalada Maligawa in February 1989 to seize the Sacred Tooth Relic continue to circulate on social media. However, evidence presented in this account points to
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Leif Erikson and his Norse crew reached North America around the year 1000, establishing an outpost in present-day Newfoundland nearly five centuries before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492. Yet while
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On 16 October 2006, a suicide truck bomb struck a naval convoy at Digampathana, killing 107 personnel and injuring 153. Through a first-hand account of the carnage, the desperate efforts to save
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech at the Pnyx in Athens on October 7, a place just below the Parthenon that I spoke at a few years ago. It sounds
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At 98, Renate Seifert still keeps a photograph of herself in the uniform of the League of German Girls, the Nazi organisation for girls aged 14 to 18. Taken in 1944, when
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by Luxman Aravind Rajapaksas are in trouble. As our columnist Durga Velayudham noted in yesterday’s column, a confrontation is unfolding between politically motivated Buddhist monk groups and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP),
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Since 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has made the full and rigorous management of the Party and the promotion of “self-revolution” central to its long-term organisational strategy. The concept addresses
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D.L. Hughley’s memoir challenges the comforting idea that success liberates us from our beginnings. Through fractured family relationships, racial disadvantage, fame, infidelity and the demands of fatherhood, he confronts the unsettling possibility
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Greg Steinmetz’s The President and the Oligarch revisits the struggle between Andrew Mellon and the political forces challenging his economic vision, revealing how the language of prosperity and fiscal responsibility can conceal
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Human DNA can survive for thousands of years on the walls of prehistoric caves, even where no human bones or other biological remains have been found, according to an international research project
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The confrontation between Washington and Moscow during the final years of the Cold War was not confined to nuclear weapons, military strategy and competing visions of global security. Newly declassified records published
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by Durga Velayudham Monks have begun marching from Kandy towards Colombo, where they are expected to arrive on October 15. The question is not simply why they are marching, but why Sri
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The article reveals the little-known role of Buddhist monks in the JVP’s second insurrection in Sri Lanka during the late 1980s, tracing their involvement in revolutionary politics, the brutal violence that claimed
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