Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day is a day to honor the memory of the victims of 2017 Myanmar's military led violence, call for justice and ensure support, protection for Rohingyas who survived genocide....
Sri Lanka invested significantly in rebuilding the physical infrastructure damaged by the war. However, comparable and sustained political commitment was not devoted to rebuilding fractured relationships among its communities. The recent controversy.
The article Hiriketiya and the Chabad Lubavitch: Sinhala Ravaya Alliance by Tisaranee Gunasekera, attacking the Chabad House in Hiriketiya raises legitimate questions about land, business regulations, foreign organizations and Sri Lanka's relationshi
Chabad Sri Lanka Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Jewish-Israeli philologist. In 1997, her 13 year-old daughter Smardar was killed in a Palestinian suicide attack. Dr Peled-Elhanan could have embraced hate and vengeance; instead...
Colombo Politics and Governance Religion and faith
One of the best known and most honoured singers of Sri Lanka, Sangeetha Visharada Dr Nanda Malini, the artist who marked an entire epoch in the art of song and who was...
The recent intervention in parliament by Batticaloa District MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam has brought renewed attention to an important humanitarian issue that Sri Lanka can no longer afford to handle through bureaucracy, uncertainty...
Sri Lanka's justice system is burdened by serious delay and reforms are unquestionably necessary. The question is not whether reform is needed. The question is whether extending the retirement age of judges...
Last month, a video showing Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe removing the microphone of a private television channel while saying, "Remove this, brother" was widely circulated. A single incident cannot by itself establish that...
Colombo Media and Communications Politics and Governance
Elephant Plastics have plagued Sri Lanka for decades. Since it was first introduced here in the 1940s, its innocent beginnings and promises of convenience have mutated into something quite sinister. Today, Sri...
Once again, the spectre of the hangman has returned to Sri Lanka's policy discourse. At National Operations Council convened at the Presidential Secretariat on August 10, the imposition of the death penalty...
For ten days in August, a scattering of galleries in Colombo and Galle Fort became something larger than the sum of their walls. ARTRA Trail Edition Two, the second edition of the...
