Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera “Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is ...

Photos courtesy of Sakuna Gamage August 5 was not just another date in Sri Lanka’s calendar. It was a moment when the nation ...

While striving toward its development goals, Sri Lanka must adopt sustainable measures to minimise carbon emissions.

UNSILENCED is a compelling and vital documentary that successfully situates the life of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam within the turbulent history of the Sri Lankan conflict. Its greatest achievement is ...

Re-displacement instead of resettlement But what is clear is that instead of being resettled, hundreds of families from the four villages of Keppaplavu, Sooriypuram, Pulakudirppu and Seeniyamottai ...

otion Array Within months of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake lifting the import ban on private vehicles, Colombo’s streets ...

Prosterman in 1976 estimated that some 68 million people have perished from all forms of deliberate human violence from 1820 to 1970. Zimmerman in 2013 found that if the victims of state violence ...

Photo courtesy National Fisheries Solidarity Movement In 2011, a young Advanced Level student from Mullikulam in the district of Mannar, living as an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) in a camp in ...

In the aftermath of the defeat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka, many expected the government to put forward the promised political solution to the problems of the Tamils which led to the war. Those who ...

Photo courtesy of Bloomberg The principal problem faced by people due to the economic crisis is of rising prices while incomes for many remain unchanged. As a result, the poverty rate has doubled from ...

From conference on “Caste, Social Justice and Democracy in Sri Lanka”, held on the 19 th and 20 th November 2016) There is a wealth of anecdotal evidence of the wide prevalence of caste prejudice and ...