Featured image courtesy Adithya Alles/IPS We, a collective of Sri Lankan individuals and organisations working for the advancement of the human rights of women, are unanimous in our concern about the disturbing…
Featured image courtesy Garikaalan February 9 marks the tenth day of protests in Keppapulavu, a village in Mullaitivu, where residents are demanding the return of their land. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe…
Featured image courtesy Raisa Wickrematunge This is the seventh in a series of video interviews forecasting what 2017 will have in store across different sectors. Director of the Bandaranaike Centre for International…
Featured image courtesy Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters This is the sixth in a series of video interviews forecasting what 2017 will have in store across different sectors. Director General of the Institute of National…
Featured image courtesy Vivalanka Editor’s Note: The CEO of SAITM, Dr Sameera Senarathna was shot at by two unidentified gunmen a short while ago. He was unhurt by the assailants. However, the attack…
Featured image courtesy DNAIndia On the wooden bench, deep in the land of the warriors, Your Jaipur prosthetic leg takes on a new posture; A docile pet, sitting snugly next to you,…
Featured image courtesy National Geographic February 4, 1948 is a date most schoolchildren learn by rote in history class; the day Sri Lanka declared independence from the British, ending a cycle of…
In a news report published in the Daily Mirror on 23 January 2017 (PDF here), Telecommunication Infrastructure Development Minister Harin Fernando is quoted explicitly noting that though the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) and the Cabinet…
Photograph courtesy Sri Lanka Guardian My mother always used to ask me why I didn’t write more often and I always had a stock reply “Everything I write is so negative, even I…
Featured image courtesy Associated Press/Eranga Jayawardena The Right to Information Act officially came into effect on February 3, 2017. We compiled a short video on the process involved in filing a request…
Featured image courtesy Women and Media Collective Sri Lanka was ushered into Independence under the Soulbury Constitution in 1948, followed by the Constitution of 1972, making the current Constitution, the second Republican…
Image courtesy New York Post PRINCETON – When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I did not join those who took to the streets in protest. I thought it…
Featured image courtesy Al Jazeera Good Governance is a key challenge Sri Lanka has faced and spectacularly failed to deliver for most of its modern history. This challenge is not only about…
Featured image courtesy PMDNews Two years in to yahapaalanaya, cracks have appeared in the historic nuptial that took place in January 2015 between the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and the United National…
Featured image courtesy Tehelka.com Sri Lankan refugees living in the camps of Tamil Nadu in India have been able to take control of their uncertain future through education. The story of their…
