The large scale military presence that spread in the north and east after the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009 has resulted in a military camp being set up in ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka’s Finest Foreign Minister and Multi-faceted Personality Lakshman Kadirgamar’s Spiritual Dimension.

B.Saroja Devi: Sparkling Actress Hailed as the “Kannadathup Painkili” (Kannada Parrot) was also Praised as the “Abhinaya Saraswathi” (Goddess of Expression) ...

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj History was made 65 years ago in July 1960 when 44 year old Sirimavo Bandaranaike assumed office as the prime minister of Sri Lanka known then as Ceylon. Sirimavo shattered a glass ...

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj “All changed, changed utterly” is a powerful line from ‘Easter, 1916’, the famous poem of William Butler Yeats. The poem by W.B. Yeats was about the Irish Easter uprising in 1916, its ...

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 ...

Former Chief Minister of merged North Eastern Province Annamalai Varadaraja Perumal says he will tryto create awareness among Tamils about the need to protect the ...

By P.M.Amza (The writer is former Sri Lanka Ambassador to EU, Belgium, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and former Deputy High Commissioner in Chennai.) For successive Sri Lankan Governments and the people of ...

“Thamizh Arasuk Katchi” in Trouble : Jaffna MP Sivagnanam Shritharan’s Insidious Campaign Against his own party ITAK.

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when she was elected as Sri Lanka’s first female executive president. Kumaratunga ...