It all ended in an orgy of violence orchestrated by the Sri Lankan army in May 2009, with the death of every LTTE leader who had not defected to the army years earlier. Prabhakaran and his entire ...

Thilakarajah first started writing poetry in school. He encountered Velupillai’s work in his Tamil literature syllabus and ...

Last week, on Philosophers’ Day at the 135-year-old National Seminary of Our Lady of Lanka, Ampitiya, organised by its ...

It all ended in an orgy of violence orchestrated by the Sri Lankan army in May 2009, with the death of every LTTE leader who ...

English PEN has announced the PEN Translates awards winners for 2025, including the first-ever PEN Translates award for a ...

To say that Vaithilingam Sornalingam alias Colonel Shankar was an important member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a gross understatement. As laid out by D.B.S. Jeyaraj in an October ...

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

Sri Lanka saw 2.03 billion rupees ($6.9 million at 1 US dollar = 294 LKR) worth outflows from the government securities in ...

The International Trade Centre (ITC), the British High Commission in Colombo, and the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB ...

Laleen Jayamanne and Namika Raby (Part I of this article appeared in The Island on Friday (31 Jan.) Women’s Mental Health: ...

In approaching another Independence Day on February 4, we must reflect on the tragic history of our country. ..

It has been 15 years and nine days since Sandya Ekneligoda last saw her husband, Prageeth Ekneligoda. On the day, 50-year-old ...