In a wide-ranging conversation, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani reflects on the unsettled nature of identity, the limits of historical truth and the moral responsibility of writing about people who can no longer speak for
My experience is what I agree to attend to. ~ William James What is the Attention Economy? The human mind, in its unrelenting quest for meaning and understanding, has always been the
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo We sat down with Jayantha Gnanakone, whose story is a poignant testament to the devastation endured by Tamils over the years. Beginning in 1958, his family’s businesses
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“Ordered disorder, planned caprice,And dehumanized humanity…” ~ Brecht (The Exception and the Rule) In 2009, Mahinda Rajapaksa conquered Sri Lanka. In 2010, he set out to conquer the world, with an address
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo In an age where diplomacy is as much about optics as it is about policy, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, has taken ‘attachment’ to a
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Attorney General (AG) Parinda Ranasinghe has directed Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasooriya to initiate an investigation into the leak of a crucial document sent to the Criminal Investigation Department
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I’m struck by the degree to which the mainstream media is still living in the Trump 1.0 world of 2017-2020, using words like “chaotic” or “transactional” to describe the new administration’s behavior.
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor In a press briefing held yesterday, the Russian Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Levan S. Dzhagaryan, expressed his support for Sri Lanka to explore nuclear
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Naive egoism and favourite perversion have unleashed a new window of working liberal democracy, making insane cruelty a value to torture and murder innocent people, and occupy foreign lands by force as
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Addressing the 2025 World Government Summit in the United Arab Emirates today (12), Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake made a powerful appeal for international cooperation, urging world leaders to unite in
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Editorial Justice in Sri Lanka is no longer a sacred ideal—it has been auctioned off to the highest bidder. The very profession sworn to uphold the law has become a grotesque marketplace
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) never hesitated to provide funding for any project at any level as long as they aligned primarily with the overall US political and even
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Editor’s Note: This article is based on the speech delivered by the author, as the Indian Prime Minister, at the AI Summit in France on 11th February 2025. Let me begin with
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In Donald Trump’s lawless domestic actions, the American people were forewarned. Through endlessly repeated attacks on the “deep state,” Trump and his allies outlined clearly the way he would seek to dismantle
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U.S. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order instructing the Department of Justice to suspend enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a landmark anti-corruption law that prohibits American businesses
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Across the rich tapestry of human civilisation, the essence of womanhood has been immortalised in the verses of poets, the strokes of artists, and the narratives of storytellers. Nowhere is this reverence
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