In a new Policy Brief from the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA)’s Shahane de Silva outlines a governance-directed approach to addressing Sri Lanka’s continuing economic challenges. Ever since Sri ...

The Batalanda Commission report which goes into details of what happened during the JVP insurrection of 1987-89 has become the centre of public attention. The controversy has long been a point of ...

Open banking allows players to instantly deposit or withdraw money to and from their betting accounts without using their credit/ debit card details. The casino operator can instantly pay out the ...

Emerging world economic order. The emerging world economic order – now tagged as Trumporder after its initiator – has turned the economic policy package advocated by IMF and W ...

Sri Lanka’s state university system, with its enviable human resource base, is on this job. But due to structural problems such as funding for ongoing projects, the availability has been short of the ...

The tyranny of the hegemonic dollar lasting for more than half a century and provided the economic lubricant to the outreach of US imperialism has finally found in Trump a president who is prepared to ...

Whether or not the world order is interested in Sri Lanka, the island country is in a fortuitously good place while other countries and polities are caught up in one way or another in the global waves ...

The Soul of a Nation. That a nation has a soul was introduced by Plato in the Republic, in which he stated that the state is infused with a soul that resembles the soul of an indi ...

The birth of a child is still heralded with pleasure in Sri Lanka, and a girl child is usually no exception. In recent times, a close member of my extended family gave birth to a beautiful girl.

A glance at the rounded, elliptical, an-iconic image of Shiva Lingam placed on a circular base (known as Peedam), which is found in the Sanctum Sanctorum (Garbhagraha) in all Shiva temples, has given ...

Sri Lankan security forces have been using rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected members or supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said in ...