When a group of women and like-minded men engaged in a walk from the Fort Railway station to the Galle Face Green on Monday, March 5th, it was to make the point that not just streets, but homes and...
The issue of the punishment of hate speech seems to raise more questions than it answers in the Sri Lankan context. Invariably there are the arguments about free speech, which are of concern to the genuine rights activist or...
Hitler, who is either suffering the eternal torments of hell or is in the bardo, must be wondering why on earth he has been dragged into the cesspit of Sri Lankan politics. (For want of carpets he must be...
Speculation is rife in political circles that a caretaker government with the Joint Opposition (JO) and the SLFP/UPFA as parties thereto is in the offing. Weekly political columns are replete with juicy accounts of the JO big guns and...
‘When we read, we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world’ Nelson Mandela.
When I saw on social media, the inspirational story of a man in Kegalle who runs a mobile library for...
On Tuesday 18th September, there was a report in the Daily Mirror newspaper, bottom right hand corner of page A4 quoting Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratna, that the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly will submit its report to the Assembly shortly. ...
Political analysts and weather forecasters have one thing in common, the world over. Their predictions, more often than not, go wrong and they become objects of ridicule as a result. On the political front what looks like a mere...
As far numbers go, the good news for Sri Lanka is that there has been an overall decline in the number of people taking their lives. Of concern, are reports by Sumithrayo, which provides suicide intervention assistance amongst other...
There is a tendency in today’s society, to characterise the ruling class as self-serving, removed from the average citizen in the street, and consider themselves as a distinctive category who are born to rule unquestioned. This situation has arisen...
