From ancient kings who disciplined errant monks to modern political battles over Gnanasara Thera, Sri Lanka’s history raises an uncomfortable question: should the saffron robe shield its wearer from accountability? The controversy
Sri Lanka needs a radical but practical reform of its school and university education to better prepare young people for a changing global economy. The proposals include reducing schooling from 13 to
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For Vivian Jenna Wilson, rebellion has become both personal and public. The 22-year-old transgender model and one of Elon Musk’s 14 children has emerged as a prominent critic of her father, and
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has urged governments and leading AI companies to act urgently as increasingly powerful and autonomous AI systems create unprecedented risks to human rights, essential
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The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than they did a decade ago, threatening water security as the region moves towards “peak water” by mid-century, according to a
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David Szalay is a quiet man, seemingly comfortable with solitude and silence, whose existence has been somewhat unsettled by winning the Booker Prize. As El País reports in its interview with the
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Drug shortages in public hospitals in Sri Lanka has been an endemic problem for decades and the reasons for this are many and varied. Political interference, bureaucratic ineptness, funding shortages, policy issues,
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Pakistan is home to a diverse mosaic of religious communities, including Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Kalash, Bahai, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians, all of whom coexist alongside the Muslim majority. From the very inception of
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo When General Shavendra Silva sat down with Ankit Chauhan, an Indian national and the founder and host of the Impact Stories podcast, the conversation quickly moved beyond
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For more than a century, the idea of replacing a failing human organ with one taken from an animal has hovered between medical ambition and science fiction. Now, advances in genetic engineering
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Sri Lanka is not a country to be rushed, particularly in its southern reaches. That is the central impression conveyed by El País in its latest travel feature on the region: beyond
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A genetically modified pig kidney functioned in a human patient for 271 days before being removed and replaced with a human donor organ, marking the longest recorded survival of an animal-to-human kidney
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The Whole Picture On 4 September each year, the international community observes World Sexual Health Day, an occasion that invites reflection on one of the most intimate yet politically significant dimensions of
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The Indian Grant Housing Programme, implemented with the aim of providing permanent shelter and land ownership to the estate community in Sri Lanka who have lived extremely difficult and challenging lives in
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Anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder are usually treated as distinct psychiatric conditions, each with its own symptoms, diagnostic category and specialised therapy. But David Barlow, one of the most influential psychologists of
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Ever since childhood, I’ve wanted to be abducted by Aliens ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson I recently read the book “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter” (Simon Schuster:
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