Rajpal Abeynayake

There is a line between baiting a community, and being politely concerned about extremism. This tension between keeping extremism at bay and...

The new Pfizer vaccine for Coronavirus will probably take time to become commercially available and safe in a country such as ours,...

In a case of possible police brutality, where a man had been arrested and had died in the police station the next...

When Judge Amy Coney Barrett placed her hand on the Bible and was sworn in as a Supreme Court Judge of the...

The New Delhi Metro was designed and built by Indians with an Indian engineer E. Sreedharan in charge. The Sri Lankan Government...

It was Amarthya Sen the Nobel prize winning economist who revealed after extensive research that famine is avoidable if there is good...

The people are ready for change that the Government must be contemplating after the passage of the 20th Amendment in Parliament.

But where does consensus come from? Is it from Parliament, or from the ‘professionals’ she goes on about, or from the people? Vox populi should be the measure of consensus especially under a constitutional regime that vests sovereignty in the people.

Until a new Constitution is promulgated, Sri Lanka has a distinctly presidential system of government. This fact among other things has been given the Supreme Court imprimatur in the court’s decision on the 19th Amendment.

Dissecting malicious prosecutions against the Rajapaksa regime,and others

It’s the end of history for Tamil politics, they say — or the Tamil politics as we knew existed. Mapping out the...

This is being written even as there are aggrieved noises being made by those who profess great love for liberal democratic ideals....