In February this year, the University of Kelaniya hosted a gender festival; the third in a series to promote gender equity and equality.
The first two were held at the Eastern University and the University of Peradeniya, in May and...
The public focus has shifted from the government to the Opposition. The sudden change of government on 26 Oct. gave rise to a public debate on the legitimacy or otherwise of the new government. The issue has now been...
When in 2007, a Sri Lankan scientist predicted that Anuradhapura would experience desertification by 2050 with temperatures rising to 36 Celsius, few took any notice. Then came back-to-back droughts, which devastated the agriculture based dry zone. The North, North...
The Joint Opposition’s Janabalaya Colombata protest is just a foretaste of what to come. The ruling coalition did not expect the JO to stage such a successful rally. It had done everything in its power to sabotage the protest...
Ranil finally gives into Gotabaya.
Hejaz Hisbullah appeals to Qatar for help
Parallels between Marcos family and Rajapaksas
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe finally recommended that Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe should continue in...
The official end of the war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on May 18, 2009 was hailed by the people, not just with a sense of relief, but also with heightened...
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...
In Sri Lanka’s post-war economy, studies on labour and livelihoods indicate deep structural inequalities.
When we look at the global political economy, we can see that the expansionary dynamics of the past forty years have produced an economic system that...
