Sri Lanka’s post-1978 political history offers a curious pattern: constitutional amendments designed to strengthen those in power have often produced consequences that later weakened or destroyed them. From the Second Amendment and
The public debate surrounding the detention of former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay has entered a new phase following an exchange of open letters between his wife,
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Australia’s landmark attempt to restrict children’s access to social media is facing enforcement challenges, with a large majority of users aged between 12 and 15 reportedly continuing to access online platforms despite
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Taking an invention and claiming it as yours is called intellectual property, based on practices followed by US and European businesses. But what happens when your neighbor argues that inventions can’t be
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The events unfolding are murky — it is unclear which direction the nation is heading. Since the introduction of provincial governance and the office of governor, Sri Lanka has not previously witnessed
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Two decades ago, I was in South Africa with the Malawian economist Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020). We were talking about his generation of scholars, who came of age during the national liberation movements.
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The United Nations was never supposed to work like this. For eight decades, the process of selecting its most powerful official, the closest thing the world has to a global leader, has
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A quick check of TikTok can easily become a much longer session than expected. A cooking video leads to a travel clip, then a technology review, an interview, or a political analysis.
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The German writer reflects on how the internet evolved from a space of experimentation into a system of depletion, while arguing that literature can still create new ways of thinking. When writer
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Indonesia is preparing to scale back President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals program, with officials considering more than $2 billion in additional budget reductions alongside cuts to the number of beneficiaries and
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The recent meeting of the Jammu and Kashmir political party National Conference at Dachigam was an atypical party meeting. This meeting was an important political manoeuvre to unify the party, reaffirm support
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As South Africa braces for a self-declared June 30 deadline promoted by anti-migrant groups demanding that undocumented foreigners leave the country, authorities are confronting growing fears that a familiar pattern of xenophobic
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The Collective for Social Media Declaration (CSMD) has raised concerns over the proposed Chartered Institute of Media Professionals of Sri Lanka Bill, gazetted by the government in June 2026, warning that the
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Read, In Order to Live ~ Gustave Flaubert Being Bookish Lucy Mangan’s Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives is far more than a memoir about books. It is an affectionate meditation on the transformative
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Few developments since the Taliban’s return to power have been as surprising as India’s gradual re-emergence in Afghanistan. In 2021, most observers assumed Islamabad would be the principal beneficiary of the new
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by Our Correspondent in Geneva New allegations have emerged from Mohamed Haris, a Sri Lankan citizen living in Switzerland, who claims Azad Maulana’s asylum strategy evolved from a personal and political dispute
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