Every monsoon season in Sri Lanka now arrives with familiar images: submerged homes in low lying districts, landslides ...

One of the most damaging features of the collapse of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was the speed at which its own ranks fragmented under pressure. As corruption scandals mounted and electoral defeats ...

Photo courtesy of Challenge Magazine President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has now completed 18 months of his term. He has ...

In any democracy, power and accountability are inseparable. When a minister stands charged before a court of law, the government faces a defining moment. It is not merely a legal inconvenience. It is ...

Photo courtesy of AP It was not just flattery but a genuine confession by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when ...

UN peacekeeping operations increasingly operate in complex and volatile environments where the use of force extends beyond traditional self-defence to encompass the protection of civilians. In such ...

Many of us shaped by the JVP in the late 1960s and 1970s carry convictions that have never fully faded. We were young and angry at inequality. We were incensed by colonial economic legacies that ...

Sri Lanka has lost one of its most courageous and enduring voices for human rights and social justice. Suriya Wickramasinghe, ...

Photo courtesy of Youth Policy Toolbox Sri Lanka is undergoing one of the most significant demographic transitions in its ...

The bombers themselves are the most malignantly innovative in hominin history; worse, the most prolific serial bombers. Imagine if the Al Queda had access to just a tenth of the explosives – ...

On March 24, 2025 President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in his capacity as the Minister of Defense signed a detention order to detain Mohamed Rusdi under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). He was ...