Public life is increasingly dominated by triviality, distraction and a reluctance to treat important matters with the seriousness they deserve. The complaint is not simply about bad manners or poor taste. It
Public life is increasingly dominated by triviality, distraction and a reluctance to treat important matters with the seriousness they deserve. The complaint is not simply about bad manners or poor taste. It
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Former Sri Lankan parliamentarian Gevindu Cumaratunga has called on the government to explain the objectives of its proposed new Constitution, questioning what Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya means by an “all-inclusive” constitutional framework
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“We have brought clay and made a figurine and are planning to stick uguressa thorns and other poisonous thorns into it… I will murmur a spell… We have prepared an offering to
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Having failed on multiple occasions to reach consensus with the LTTE, Sri Lanka, finally, during President Mahinda Rajapaksa tenure, launched all-out war. The LTTE lasted two years and 10 months. In spite
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United Nations human rights experts have called on Indian authorities to end the alleged excessive use of force against peaceful, youth-led protests, investigate reported rights violations and guarantee the right to public
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Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary under US President Donald Trump, attracted widespread attention during her first briefing after accidentally referring to the president as “my husband” when she intended
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Governor Greg Gianforte’s visit to Sri Lanka promises expanded trade, critical-mineral cooperation and stronger security ties. Yet Montana’s history of Indigenous massacres, starvation and dispossession offers a sobering reminder that progress and
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US President Donald Trump has appointed conservative commentator Katie Zacharia as the next White House press secretary, replacing Karoline Leavitt, who left the position in August, a senior presidential official has confirmed.
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The JVP’s journey from armed insurrection to democratic power raises a troubling question about political survival: can a movement built on resistance deliver meaningful change once it governs? This critique argues that
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India’s judiciary and Election Commission have survived decades of political conflict, public criticism and institutional pressure. But the campaign against the Chief Election Commissioner over the Special Intensive Revision raises a more
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Venezuela’s post-Maduro reality is defined by a stark imbalance of power. The Rodríguez government has avoided direct confrontation with Washington while negotiating access to its vast oil resources and seeking to stabilise
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A significant discrepancy has emerged between a population figure published by Sri Lanka’s Central Bank for the Northern Province and the latest official census data issued by the Department of Census and
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Years after Easter, the unanswered “mastermind” question has become far more than a demand for justice. It has become entangled with institutional authority, political influence and questions of financial transparency. As Cardinal
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The article examines the controversy surrounding the planting of a purported Sri Maha Bodhi sapling at Vadunnagala, an ancient Buddhist archaeological site in northern Sri Lanka, by politician Sarath Weerasekara. It links
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Sri Lanka may have spent years looking for a deep state in the wrong place. The more immediate concern is whether a disciplined political organisation is gradually extending its influence across state
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