Commentary

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in his address to the nation on Friday (August 20) called on everyone to...

BY NADIRA GUNATILLEKE The number of Covid-19 deaths reported up to August 14 was 5,775 and over 95 percent...

BY H.L.D. MAHINDAPALA “We were devoid of fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We did not know what we were doing.”...

“Country cannot bear another complete lockdown” President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called on the masses to be prepared for a prolonged...

BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE There is chaos in the world now and the way each Government wants to handle this...

By Dhammika Amarakoon Former JVP MP Lal Kantha has a second theory about the dominance of the two party...

By Punsara Amarasinghe Israel faced a series of existing challenges after its formation...

BY SHENALI WADUGE There are many lessons to learn from history. A look back in time will reveal occasions that...

People have followed ideologies and their leaders but there has been no party that has been this disruptive & destructive of a...

Despite all the democratic talk, during the Cold War era, almost three fourth of the world was under some form of dictatorship.

BY SHENALI WADUGE Towards end of 2019 the world was in for a surprise. It was a surprise to 99.9%...

BY HEMANTHA KULATUNGA Dean Koontz, the renowned American author in his book ‘Deeply Odd’ stated, “The world howls for...

BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE Is it decent to infer that a former President has been conducting himself unlawfully, when he...

BY H. L. D. MAHINDAPALA Question: Why did Ranil Wickremesinghe get his jab at the Army Headquarters – a...

BY KATHYA DE SILVA SENARATH The Government is powering through amid tragic circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting...

BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE The usual culprits are going into states of apoplexy over what they see as systemic collapse....

Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena saw red yesterday in the House, and took SJB MP Rohini Kumari Wijerathna to task for accusing him...

By Nadira Gunatilleke By now it is obvious that certain elements are behind all types of ‘issues’, ‘troubles’ and...

BY SHENALI WADUGE Both the World Bank and the IMF were founded in 1944 at the Bretton Woods conference. The...

By Malinda Seneviratne We know that the SLMA played a predicting game not too long ago. As is obvious,...

The country’s economy is probably at the most experimental stage in our remembered history, and that is incontrovertible. The Government’s detractors have...

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid Despite being criticized for some of its narratives, the second season of Indian espionage thriller “The...

By Shenali D Waduge The UN was created in 1945 following the end of World War 2 promising to...

BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s detractors are not relenting in their opposition to the organic fertiliser project.

Part I - The Jaffna U-turn from liberalism to communalism BY H. L. D. MAHINDAPALA