Colombo, June 9: A Hindi-language commercial thriller The Family Man 2, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, has caused a huge furorein Tamil Nadu because it shows the LTTE as a terrorist organization and not as the vanguard of...
India will ignore the Myanmar angle to its own peril
By P.K.Balachandran
The ongoing violence in the North-Eastern Indian State of Manipur may appear to be rooted in local concerns, but there is an external factor that cannot be ignored. The...
Besides being a huge setback to democracy, the coup will put off the return of two million Rohingya refugees and embitter relations with Bangladesh. But it will strengthen ties with China.
Myanmar is seeing its fourth military coup since independence...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, May 3: China, which had expressed displeasure over Sri Lanka’s approaching the IMF for a bailout without consulting it first, and had warned that its relations with Sri Lanka would depend on the conditions set by the...
:Caste discrimination, which essentially applies to the Dalits (a group at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy) is part of the ideological baggage that upper-caste Indians carry when they migrate to the US.
And the Dalits, who migrate to...
Colombo, June 28: While Sri Lanka’s connection with the Tamil country in South India is repeatedly mentioned in the island nation’s ancient chronicles, the Mahawamsa and the Deepawamsa, its connection with Kerala, which is also in South India, finds...
Protestant missionaries faced a variety of challenges in converting the people of Ceylon whether from Buddhism, Hinduism or Roman Catholicism. Islam is not on this list because there is no authenticated case of any Ceylonese Muslim converting to Christianity...
Apprehending a repeal of the 13 th. Amendment (13A) of the Sri Lankan constitution as part of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s plan to give Sri Lanka a new constitution, an overwhelming majority of parties representing the Tamil-speaking people of the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be paying a visit to Egypt on June 24 on his way back to India from a State visit to the United States. A noteworthy part of Modi’s itinerary in Egypt is paying...
The horrific genocide which forced Sheikh Mujib to declare independence has been described by Inam Ahmed and Shakhawat Litonin their book entitled: Genocide They Wrote: A rebuttal of Pakistan’s denial of its 1971 crimes in Bangladesh (Daily Star Books,...
A draft of the Amendment will be given to the leaders of parties in parliament on May 27
By P.K.Balachandran
The Sri Lankan cabinet, which met here on Monday, discussed a draft 21 st. Amendment of the constitution meant to reduce...
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) observes that the Sri Lankan Government published an ‘Anti-terrorism Bill’ in the Gazette, on the 22nd of March 2023. This Bill seeks to abolish the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and introduce an...
