Those who pay floral tributes to Rohana Wijeweera’s portrait lack the courage to look at his eyes – Leader of Second Generation Uvindu Wijeweera
By Vishvanath
The Batalanda Commission report is still in the news. The parliament is going to have...
By kassapa
If ever there was a case of any publicity not being good publicity, it was former President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s interview with the Al Jazeera television network where he seems to have opened a veritable can of worms vis-à-vis...
By Vishvanath
Never a dull day in Sri Lanka! Issues crop up at such a pace that it is well-nigh impossible to keep track of them, much less tackle them, the latest being the ongoing hullabaloo over a 25-year-old presidential...
By Kassapa
There was a time, during the presidencies of Chandrika Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapaksa when Ranil Wickremesinghe was mocked mercilessly for his mannerism in public speaking. This strategy had its impact which is why Wickremesinghe was not able to...
By Vishvanath
JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva, giving a press conference over the weekend, declared the NPP’s Colombo mayoral candidate—Vraie Cally Balthazaar, who is a National Executive Committee member of the NPP. His announcement came as no surprise, for she...
By Kassapa
The comical spectacle of officers of the Sri Lanka Police force launching a manhunt to nab its Inspector General of Police (IGP), albeit suspended, unfolded this week. This was after the Matara Magistrate’s Court issued an order for...
By Vishvanath
The JVP-led NPP government is having more than its fair share of problems. Now, it has a potential national security issue to contend with. Cabinet Spokesman and Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, addressing the weekly post-Cabinet media briefing on...
2025 Budget:
By Vishvanath
Capturing power is one thing, but retaining it is quite another. The JVP-led NPP government finds itself in a situation it apparently did not bargain for during its quest for power. Perhaps, the NPP politicians took the...
By Kassapa
If the events at Court No.5 on February 19 were scripted by a Hollywood thriller writer, he could not have done a better job. It had a movie-like quality. The killer entered the complex in a lawyer’s...
by Vishvanath
Leader of the House and Minister Bimal Ratnayake was at his oratorical best in the parliament on Tuesday, lashing out as he did at the Opposition. In his address replete with banter, rhetoric and barbs, in equal measure,...
By Shikha Pandey/Beijing Language and Culture University
Beijing, February 24 -In this increasingly integrated world, there is a need to know other cultures to have better a understanding of the “other”.
The influence of the Chinese (Mandarin) language has grown significantly...
By Vishvanath
Much-advertised efforts to bring the SJB and the UNP together to form an electoral alliance have failed, and the two parties are now planning to contest the upcoming local government (LG) polls separately under their own symbols. It...
