Sri Lanka’s state university system, with its enviable human resource base, is on this job. But due to structural problems such as funding for ongoing projects, the availability has been short of the ...

Lawyers Collective on the appointment of retired judges to positions in the public and private sectors. The appointment of retired judges, especially of the Superior Courts, to po ...

This article was written in 2018 and published in The Island. I am updating it with some additions and a few changes. The discussion on the Capital Punishment (CP) has come to the fore again. I do not ...

President Donald Trump’s second term is not quite a second coming, even though he proclaimed divine causality for it in his inaugural address. “My life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to ...

The government has given emphasis to finding new ways of boosting Sri Lanka’s economic growth. Among these would be the need to improve the country’s utilization of digital technologies. The ...

“The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.” ~ Israel Zangwill Ceylonese in ...

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.” ~Aristotle Such an unpleasant circumstance is seemingly taking ahold of the current government ...

In 2009, Mahinda Rajapaksa conquered Sri Lanka. In 2010, he set out to conquer the world, with an address to the Oxford Union. Though the visit was a private one, a 100+ delegation accompanied the ...

The movie – Rāni had the potential to be a powerful cinematic experience, given its compelling storyline set in the 1980s and 1990s. The film is presented as fiction but revolves around the tragic ...

This dreaded collapse of class- a product of breed that teaches us etiquette, decorum and calmness of wisdom, and finesse and refined nuances of international diplomacy – might cause many more lives,, ...

Sri Lankans are witnessing a series of neo-burlesque theatrical dramas satirizing and rationalizing the maiden budget presented a few days ago to parliament by the AKD government. While the ...

Sri Lanka has recently experienced significant power outages, notably the nationwide blackout on February 9, 2025. According to official reports, this particular incident was attributed to a monkey ...