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
In Part I, we introduced Malek Bennabi — the man, the oeuvre, and the five conceptual weapons that constitute his analytical grammar: colonisability, the civilisational triad, mondialisme, the ideological struggle, and the
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Israel’s Parliament has approved the creation of a special military tribunal to prosecute Palestinians accused of involvement in the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, marking a dramatic escalation in the country’s
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More than 82.2 million people were living displaced within their own countries by the end of 2025 after fleeing armed conflict or natural disasters, according to the latest report from the Internal
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A growing health concern has emerged in Sri Lanka as leading ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists raise alarms over the excessive use of loudspeakers in places of worship. In a collective
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For decades, Boney M. represented glittering disco glamour, infectious dance hits, and the international optimism of late 1970s pop music. Songs like “Daddy Cool,” “Ma Baker,” “Rivers of Babylon,” and “Rasputin” became
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The beaches of San Antonio in the Philippine province of Zambales are usually alive before dawn. Fishing boats return with fresh catches, villagers crowd the shore and traders prepare for another day’s
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The United Nations Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk, has issued a stark warning over the escalating use of armed drones in Sudan, describing the conflict as being on the verge of entering
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An image I’ll never forget: a woman passing her baby over the wall at the Kabul airport compound. It was August 2021 and the Taliban was sweeping back into Afghanistan. All I
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At a moment when wars, technological upheaval, climate anxiety and democratic instability dominate headlines across the globe, the search for intellectual clarity has become more urgent than ever. In a recent feature
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Northern Province Governor Nagalingam Vedanayagam has pledged that the government will continue investigations into enforced disappearance cases while ensuring justice and financial reparations for affected families, reaffirming a renewed state commitment to
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In an age marked by democratic erosion in multiple regions of the world, a historical and moral thread runs through acts of resistance that are not always loud or violent, but often
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Oscar-winning director James Cameron and Disney are facing a lawsuit from actress Q’orianka Kilcher, who alleges that her facial likeness was “extracted, replicated and commercially deployed” in the creation of the Avatar
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A few weeks ago, while I was in Bandung, Indonesia, a man who uses a wheelchair told me that the total number of people living with disabilities has been calculated by the
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Nearly five decades after the birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first person conceived through in vitro fertilization, IVF has become one of medicine’s most transformative technologies. Millions of children have since
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Across literature, television, film, and music, a striking visual motif has emerged in contemporary popular culture: women depicted on all fours, often in explicitly sexualized or submissive contexts. What might once have
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