Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya Sri Lanka’s current Prime Minister, who holds a PhD in Anthropology, has sparked conversations on social media, where many are hailing her as the most academically qualified leader in the nation’s history. Indeed, the fact is irrefutable, but it raises a broader, more nuanced question: Is there a direct correlation between […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Brotherless Night (2023) by Vasugi.V. Ganeshananthan won UK’s 30,000   pound sterling Women’s Prize for Fiction in   2024. The book   was also a   New York Times Editors’ Choice. It was   shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize and was a finalist for Minnesota Book Award and the Asian Prize for Fiction. Ganeshananthan is a journalist, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Brotherless Night is well written, with nice turns of phrase.  ‘I wanted the four clean walls of my Jaffna childhood, the courtyard with its cup of sunlight, the small and dear lane where I had grown up. A home full of people who considered me precious,’ wished Sashi. For authenticity and context, there […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The book ‘Brotherless Night’ is the ‘inside’ story of   the Eelam war, written by an author who did not live through it and extravagantly praised by others who had no firsthand experience of it, either. This book is yet another novel on the Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka, written by second generation immigrant […]

දේශමාන්‍ය ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර (ශ්‍රී.ලං.ප.සේ.) අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ලේකම් සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ හිටපු සභාපති. (1991-94) (දැන් යලිත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණයකට  නම්දී ඇති බැවින් මෙම අදහස් කාලෝචිත නිසා මෙය නැවත පළකිරීමකී. ඓතිහාසික යථාර්ථයන්  මහාවන්ශයේ සඳන්වන පරිදි සින්හල ජාතිය මෙන්ම සින්හලේ රාජ්‍ය ආරම්භ වන්නේ ක්‍රි. පූ. 543 ය. ඒ උත්‍ර භාරථයෙන් පැමිණි සින්හ […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D PhD Toronto Canada I was amazed by seeing “Fiddler on the Roof,” a musical drama at the Lionel Wendt last night. This stunning drama was directed by Jerome L. de Silva. This musical was based on the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Norman Jewison. The film is based on Tevye, a […]

by Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud Courtesy Middle East Monitor People gather to stage a pro-Palestinian demonstration and condemn the Israeli attacks on Gaza, in Amsterdam, Netherlands on October 7, 2024 [Selman Aksunger/Anadolu via Getty Images] No one expected that one year would be enough to recalibrate the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Oxford (UK) October 8: Parliamentary representation of minority ethnic and religious groups is in danger of splintering and weakening in the forthcoming elections affecting their capacity to effectively politically engage and promote the rights of minorities, a new European Commission funded research project reveals. Major national parties such as the United National Party […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Oct 8 (NewsIn.Asia) – Rohit Shetty’s much-anticipated cop drama Singham Again showcases stunning landmarks from Sri Lanka, weaving them into a modern retelling of the ancient Ramayana. This action-packed thriller, starring Bollywood heavyweights, promises a gripping narrative with scenes set against the backdrop of Sri Lanka’s cultural and historical beauty. Released on Monday, the trailer of Singham […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රාජපක්ෂ පාලනය සමයේ සිදුව ඇති සියලු දූෂණ වංචා සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශන යළි ආරම්භ කර ඇති බව ජාතික ජන බලවේග ජාතික විධායක සභික වසන්ත සමරසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඒ සමගම පසුගිය පාලන කාලවල ආන්දෝලනයට තුඩු දුන් සියලුම චෝදනා පිළිබඳව විමර්ශනය කරමින් සිටින බවද හෙතෙම කියා සිටියේ මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවක් අමතමිනි. ආණ්ඩුවට සති දෙකයි […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පාස්කු ඉරිදා බෝම්බ ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳ පරීක්‍ෂණ කරන ලද ජනාධිපති විශේෂ කොමිසම් වාර්තාවේ පිටු අතුරුදහන් වූ බව කියන සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් රජය පරීක්ෂණයක් ආරම්භ කර ඇති බව අමාත්‍ය විජිත හේරත් මහතා අද ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. එම පරීක්ෂණවල කරුණු නුදුරේදීම හෙළි කරන බවද අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩල තීරණ දැනුම් දීමේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු පැවසුවේය. එම […]

By Kalinga Seneviratne Courtesy Eurasia Review At the height of Sri Lanka’s debt crisis two years ago, India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar gave a talk at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University on India’s ‘Look East’ policy. I asked him during Q and A session whether India and China could cooperate to get the new BRICS […]

Courtesy CNA Sri Lanka’s new government announced a probe on Tuesday (Oct 8) into the 2019 Easter bombings that killed 279 people, saying that previous investigations had failed to identify other culprits responsible for the country’s worst-ever attack against civilians. In the aftermath, officials blamed a local jihadist group for the suicide bombings on three […]

By Keerthi Martyn Courtesy The Diplomat As Dissanayake takes up the presidency, Sri Lanka stands at a pivotal juncture. Sri Lanka begins a new political era under the presidency of Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who was elected in September following an economic crisis in 2022 that brought down the previous government and sparked political uncertainty in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Colombo, October 08 – (Bloomberg) Sri Lanka’s new government said it will review a wind power deal with the Adani Group, throwing a fresh hurdle for the Indian conglomerate as it seeks to expand abroad. The previous administration’s approval of electricity prices for Adani Green Energy Ltd.’s projects was a problem,” Foreign Minister […]

Courtesy Adaderana More than 40,000 dengue cases have been reported so far this year in Sri Lanka, according to the latest statistics released by the National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU) on Tuesday. The NDCU said that 40,109 cases had been reported with 19 fatalities so far, Xinhua news agency reported. The western province recorded the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lankans who have traveled to Lebanon for employment without registering with the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) have been granted an amnesty until January 8, 2025.  Accordingly, this initiative allows unregistered migrant workers to rectify their status by registering at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Lebanon.

Courtesy Adaderana Taking into consideration the matters submitted by Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vijitha Herath relevant to the 57th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which is held from September 09 to October 11, 2024 in Geneva, the consent of the Cabinet of Ministers has been obtained to present the […]