Sri Lanka’s state university system, with its enviable human resource base, is on this job. But due to structural problems such as funding for ongoing projects, the availability has been short of the ...

Whether or not the world order is interested in Sri Lanka, the island country is in a fortuitously good place while other countries and polities are caught up in one way or another in the global waves ...

The Soul of a Nation. That a nation has a soul was introduced by Plato in the Republic, in which he stated that the state is infused with a soul that resembles the soul of an indi ...

While the Tamil community no longer mobilizes in the streets or gathers at iconic locations like Galle Face, as they did during the ‘Aragalaya,’ one of their most fundamental demands remains steadfast ...

This dreaded collapse of class- a product of breed that teaches us etiquette, decorum and calmness of wisdom, and finesse and refined nuances of international diplomacy – might cause many more lives,, ...

Lawyers Collective on the appointment of retired judges to positions in the public and private sectors. The appointment of retired judges, especially of the Superior Courts, to po ...

The birth of a child is still heralded with pleasure in Sri Lanka, and a girl child is usually no exception. In recent times, a close member of my extended family gave birth to a beautiful girl.

The Colombo Telegraph received two disturbing videos form one of our sources. First video shows surrendered LTTE female cadres. The second footage shows hundreds of dead bodies and some of them are ...

A glance at the rounded, elliptical, an-iconic image of Shiva Lingam placed on a circular base (known as Peedam), which is found in the Sanctum Sanctorum (Garbhagraha) in all Shiva temples, has given ...

“It is a fact. Gandhi had young women in his ashram, some of them still teenagers, one of them his own grand-niece [Manu Gandhi], sleep naked with him in his bed at night. This was an aspect of Gandhi ...

New photographs have emerged which raise fresh questions about the conduct of Sri Lanka’s armed forces during the final stages of the operation against Tamil rebels and have led to claims the ...

The suicide bomber who killed Premadasa on 1st May 1993 was said to be Kulaveerasingam Veerakumar (23) alias Babu, from Jaffna. Nearly all the details given to the Press came from Amarasena Rajapakse, ...