One may naturally question why Independence continues to be celebrated when hardly any of us alive today have firsthand experience of ...

Freedom, Liberty and Independence. Three words that seemingly have the same meaning, but differ slightly in their interpretation. Sri Lanka gained ...

Veteran Tamil political leader Somasundaram Senathirajah popularly known as “Maavai” Senathirajah breathed his last on 29 ...

Jaffna known as “Yaarlpaanam” in Tamil and “Yaapanaya” in Sinhala is the capital city of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province.

Despite Scheduled Castes (SC) constituting 20% of Tamil ... the post during January 1960-March 1962. As per the 1961 Census, the SCs’ share in the southern State was 13.8% and 50 years later ...

In search of Buddhist conscience (Baudha Hurdasakshiya Soya) by Laleen Jayamanne and Namika Raby “People were nourished by ...

Two contentious issues that may never be resolved are disagreement between India and Sri Lanka over granting police and land ...

Writing a critique about Ranil Wickremesinghe now is akin to hitting a dead snake with a pole, a gentleman quipped during the launch of Professor Rajiva Wijesinha’s latest book, “Ranil Wickremesinghe ...

while responding to a query from a journalist on the status of the Madurai-Thoothukudi new line project via Arappukottai, claimed that it was shelved on the basis of a letter given by the Tamil ...

The return to Colombo after a four-day State visit to China appears to have placed President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in a ...

Veteran Tamil political leader Somasundaram Senathirajah popularly known as “Maavai” Senathirajah breathed his last on 29 January 2025. The octogenarian six-footer suffered a brain concussion after a ...

Photo courtesy of Kumanan Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher, introduced the concept of translatability, framing it not as an exploration of identity but as the translator’s ability to capture ...