Both the Sinhalese and the Tamils were into Buddhism in ancient times. But while the religion survived and went from strength to strength among the Sinhalese, it declined among the Tamils both in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu to...
In a March 28 tweet, Assange’s partner Stella Moris said that “after a hard night, Julian woke up this morning to a kind, personal message from Pope Francis @pontifex delivered to his cell door by the prison priest.”
“Our family...
Colombo, April 12: Muslims of Ceylon and peninsular India, who are ethnologically similar, were in the vanguard of maritime trade in South and South East Asia from the 3 rd., century BC till the emergence of the Portuguese and...
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, quotes the FAO/WFP Hunger Hotspots Report for October 2022 to January 2023, to say that Sri Lanka is listed as a “hotspot of high concern”.
The economic crisis is the “worst...
Colombo, October 5:
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan is likely to get international economic support if not de jure diplomatic recognition, sooner than generally expected.
Indications of this are seen in two recent events: (1) the proceedings of the Russian-led conclave...
While developed countries in the West have knit their diverse peoples into a nation on the basis of “citizenship” and not ethnicity or religion, in many parts of the developing world, countries are increasingly using religion and ethnicity to...
Renaming the “Moghul Gardens” in New Delhi “Amirt Udyan” is tantamount to erasing the contribution of the Moghuls to the garden culture of India.
The iconic Moghul Gardens in the Indian Presidential palace (Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi, laid...
The trading communities of Gujarat and Sindh had been in world trade in African slaves in one way or the other since at least the 15 th., Century. But it was in the 18 thand 19 th Centuries that...
Colombo
The proposed docking of the Chinese survey and tracking vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port from August 11 to 17, has touched off a low-intensity conflict between India and China putting Sri Lanka in a cleft stick.
Sri Lanka...
Colombo, October 26: With Israel calling for the immediate resignation of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for allegedly equating Israel and Hamas, the US, which determines who will be UN Secretary General, could come under pressure to seek Guterres’...
Colombo, December 2:
The global market for cannabis and its products is booming, with many nations de-regulating the weed or lifting the ban on it. The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (UNCND) had reclassified cannabis as a “therapeutic product” in...
Natural endowments and the strategic value of Trincomalee port have been well-known for long. Yet, to date, nothing concrete has been done to develop and use it. There has been no dearth of reports and plans. But except for...
