Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...
Even as fans of cinema find this environment worrisome, what comes as a sigh of relief is Parasakthi’s rich, dense material. Directed by Sudha Kongara, this multi-starrer, featuring Sivakarthikeyan, ...
The 17th anniversary of the assassination of The Sunday Leader founder Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, which falls on 8 January, will be marked with a service at his graveside. Family, friends ...
The United States Government launched its final assault on Native Americans in the area around Wounded Knee Creek, a tributary of the White River in South Dakota. In December 1890, the US army ...
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), the chief constituent of Sri Lanka’s ruling National People’s Power (NPP) coalition, on Sunday (January 4, 2025) “strongly condemned” the United States’ actions in ...
The development follows criticism from former Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka Commissioner Ambika Satkunanathan, who questioned Shritharan’s vote in favour of appointing an Army officer as ...
For King Dutugemunu there is no rest. With distressing regularity, he is summoned in the service of an ambitious politician, a divisive policy or a violent act. The latest instance of necromancy ...
Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake(AKD) made history when he became the first Sri Lankan head of state to set foot on Katchatheevu (spelled as Kachchatheevu also) soil on 1st September 2025 ...
The provincial councils scheme , implemented since 1988, has seen a number of chief ministers being elected by the various provincial councils over the years. Although the norm has been for each ...
Tamil cinema fans like this writer who grew up on a diet of Tamil movies were deeply saddened when veteran South Indian actress B. Saroja Devi passed away some days ago on 14 July 2025. The ...
The first part of this article titled “Black July; Anatomy of an Anti-Tamil Pogrom” was a brief overview of the horrific anti-Tamil violence that engulfed the Sri Lankan nation in July 1983. The ...
Chemmani, a sparsely populated area in the northern peninsula of Jaffna has in recent times acquired a somewhat dubious image. Just as Nallur in Jaffna is associated positively in public perception ...
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