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 ...

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,, ...

There is an insightful saying with a touch of sarcasm and humour from ancient Tamil literature: “It is as though one listened to the entire Ramayana and then asked what the relationship between Rama ...

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 ...

Under the new Central Bank of Sri Lanka Act, abbreviated as CBA, the Central Bank should use inflation targeting as its monetary policy framework.[1] Inflation targeting is the operational mechanism ...

Dr. Siri Gamage has taken exception to my classification of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the JVP-NPP’s trajectory as a shift to the right, and my classification of them as neo-Menshevik, by ...

In a landmark decision, the Australian Federal Court has fined Himalee Arunatilaka, Sri Lanka’s current Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, over AUD 117,000 for ...

I would like to extend my gratitude to Comrade Prins Gunasekera‘s daughter, Mrs. Geshni Gunasekera, for inviting me to deliver a message on this special occasion of the birth centenary of the late ...