Tisaranee Gunasekara, in her article in Groundviews, Land Mining Sri Lanka in Vadunnagala, says that Pallegama Hemarathana Thero, who is accused of child rape and no longer the Atamasthanadhipati, gifted a Sri...
Something was lost in the 20th century and has never been replaced. The Third International was dissolved in 1943, a wartime accommodation to allies who wanted it gone. Whatever its faults, and...
As the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) met in September, the situation in Sri Lanka was on the agenda as the state again tried to fend off concerns about its patchy record....
Lionel Bopage has spent his career as an independent and passionate activist, fighting to advance and defend the rights to equality and non-discrimination. At the heart of this work has been a...
We have lost a dear friend and comrade. Basil Fernando died in Hong Kong on September 30 aged 81. He was a lawyer, jurist, poet, philosopher and Marxist and he never made...
Look at the ordinary things around you. The clothes on your back, the cup beside you, the wires in the wall, the screen in your hand. Hardly any of it was made...
Sri Lanka is arresting people on an extraordinary scale while hundreds of rehabilitation places remain empty. As prisons overflow, the country faces a fundamental question: can addiction be defeated by punishment alone?...
"When an old person dies, a library burns." This African proverb explains why elders matter so deeply. Every older person carries decades of memory, wisdom, skill and love that no book can...
Many columnists have elaborated at great length on the existential crisis that people on Mannar Island face in their struggle against the wind power farms and the planned sand mining project which...
In the early hours of September 27, over 20 Sri Lankan police officers, including Jaffna's Officer in Charge, arrived at the Nallur memorial to Lt. Col. Thileepan and swiftly removed the statue....
I have had two abortions. Both took place after the birth of my son during a period when my first marriage had ended and I was in another relationship. I was 29...
Guardian Pallegama Hemaratana Thero is no longer the Atamasthanadhipati. Accused of child rape, he was officially removed from that august position in May 2026 by the chief prelates of his nikaya. Yet...
Some political remarks vanish with the news cycle. Others refuse to disappear because they reveal a question larger than the speaker may have intended. Deputy Minister of Transport and Highways Dr. Prasanna...
The Supreme Court determined that the proposed 22nd Amendment does not require a referendum and can be passed by parliament with a special majority. This article examines the major legal arguments from...
As the NPP government completes two years in office, the question before Sri Lanka is not merely whether it has governed differently from previous regimes but whether it has changed the deeper...
The NPP is conducting a series of mass rallies across the country to celebrate its two years of power. A close look at these rallies and the political rhetoric featuring speeches by...
"There will no longer be a majority and minority; we will all be Sri Lankans." President Anura Kumara Dissanayake made this declaration during his visit to Mannar in April 2025, presenting a...
By the time the midday bell rings, Chathumika has already made two trips up and down three flights of stairs for water. Mayumi is counting the hours until she can get home...
At a school on the outskirts of Colombo, the heat is changing how children experience a school day. For those preparing for their crucial examinations amid many socio-economic hardships, mornings remain manageable...
The Bill to amend the Constitution for the 22nd time, together with the proposed amendment to the Judicature Act, is currently under consideration by the Supreme Court. The immediate constitutional question is...
