Sri Lanka’s attainment of national independence in 1948 was not merely the result of constitutional reforms and political struggles but also ...

Dr Upul Wijayawardhana How would the Buddha have looked like in real life?” This question was posed by Prof. Asanga Thilakaratna, the Chief Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, during one of the ...

In search of Buddhist conscience (Baudha Hurdasakshiya Soya) (Part II of this article appeared in The Island on Monday – 03) Tissa Ranasinghe’s and Gananath’s Kannagi Gananath’s Pattini book has a ...

Digging into the past with warped ideology should have no place in today’s politics, which is best left to academics and professionals.

If the English media had Lasantha Wickremathuge, the Sinhala media had Victor Ivan Journalist ... fast. These days I’m reading content from his coffee table book ‘Paradise in tears’- which is a photo ...

A little-known female author, G. Misihami’s spirit was very much present at a function held in Jaffna on January 18. A cultural centre in Jaffna was named after Thiruvalluvar, ...

The assertions of ‘first comer’ are the hallmark of sectarian nationalism and contrary to the values of Indian Constitution ...

Thilakarajah first started writing poetry in school. He encountered Velupillai’s work in his Tamil literature syllabus and ...

Old cases are revived, but arrests seen as witch-hunt and hurried moves; Govt. leaders react to Yoshitha’s release on bail, ...

Ratnottama Sengupta, one of the editors of this collection, has written about forms of violence against women that appear endemic to South Asia. In an essay entitled “When Kin Says Kill”, she writes ...

The campaigners distributed over a thousand copies of the latest IYSSE statement, “Sri Lanka-Peradeniya University tries to justify ban of IYSSE lecture,” both in Sinhala and Tamil languages.