In recent years the History of Sri Lanka has become an important subject, not only because it is in school curriculum, but also because it has been used to shape politics and justify the ...

My interests are of ‘ethnicity’ deriving from the discipline of political science and not ethnography or anthropology as such, since I don’t have any disciplinary background in them. Also my effort is ...

The Colombo Telegraph published in a breaking story, how the Censor Board had banned the latest edition in the popular Pusswedilla series, and featured a speech made by Feroze Kamardeen, Playwright ...

A recent book, ‘Ritual and Recovery in Post-conflict Sri Lanka,’ by Jane Derges, provides an ethnographic account of the performances of Hindu rituals that serve to recover some old, less ubiquitous ...

The resignation last week of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairperson Tilak Karunaratne, after he blamed “a mafia of high net worth investors and their crony stockbrokers” for mobilising ...

The explosion and complete destruction of the Sri Lanka Army’s central armoury located at the Salawa army camp in Kosgama has shocked the nation. I would like to express my condolences to the family ...

Relying heavily on fossil-fuel thermal plants to survive a drought creates a direct macroeconomic emergency. Sri Lanka does ...

Seventeen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, the latest report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...

Two years ago, Sri Lankan voters did not merely elect a new government. They voted for a political transformation. The ...

There is a fundamental difference between Ayurveda and the Western medical system. Therefore, judging the two by exactly the ...

We speak of 78 years of “self-rule.” But honesty demands we ask: what kind of rule have we actually had? It was not democracy ...

Then a notice arrives from the IRS or the California Franchise Tax Board. The difficult part isn’t understanding how you got there — it’s deciding what to do now, and whether the situation is serious ...