Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when she was elected as Sri Lanka’s first female executive president. Kumaratunga ...

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Shanmuganathan Sivashankar alias “Pottu Ammaan”, the former intelligence chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a keen topic of discussion these days within a Europe ...

By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Interestingly, there were three similarities between the Opposition political parties in southern Sri Lanka and the Tamil political parties in the north and east at last ...

By Bhadri Durghabakshi Would you believe that a humble lumpy brown bulb could transform into one of the world’s most photographed wonders? In the Netherlands every spring millions of tulips burst into ...

By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Even though a month has passed since the Local Government (LG) Elections, political parties have been unable to form administrations in the majority of local councils.

By Chandani Kirinde (Chandani Kirinde traces the close friendship between Emperor Asoka and King Devanampiyatissa that led to the introduction of Buddhism to this land) India’s Emperor Asoka and King ...

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj The evolution and growth of the armed struggle for the goal of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka saw many Tamil militant groups emerge across the politico-military horizon. There was a time ...

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Leading Tamil film actor Kamal Haasan -who is no stranger to Sri Lankan film fans – is very much in the news lately, for three reasons. Firstly the actor-politico will be elected in ...

By Sunela Jayewardene (The writer is an Environmental Architect, Regenerative Land-use Specialist & Author) On the avenues of Colombo, an intricate pattern of flickering shade has dappled her road ...

By Tisaranee Gunasekara “A war on Iraq is a good choice, the right choice…” Benyamin Netanyahu (Testimony before the US Congress, 12.9.2002) “A forever war is beneficial to Netanyahu. People feel like ...