A year after the leftist National People’s Power (NPP) coalition won an unprecedented supermajority in Sri Lanka’s November 2024 parliamentary elections—with support from both the majority Sinhala ...

The convergence of the D-gang’s money and resources with the LTTE’s experience and established routes creates a lethal combination and a major security headache. The D-gang aims to use the South as a ...

Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup-winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga has stunned fans with a dramatic transformation. The legendary ...

A photograph shared on X by Jayasuriya, quickly went viral, showing Ranatunga dressed in a striking red kurta.

Sri Lankan combatants experienced prolonged exposure to combat, surpassing the durations faced by veterans of World War II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Gulf War. As a result, a significant number of these ...

I’m asking audiences to come and see and understand my history, see how everything is connected, and how even my war is also ...

Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera The term post-war state in the title of this article is based on the fact that in 2009 territory of the post-colonial Sri Lankan state was consolidated through military ...

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj (S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike, the fourth Prime Minister of Independent Sri Lanka known then as Ceylon was the target of an assassination attempt on September 25th 1959. He succumbed to his ...

Navigating Asymmetry through Ambiguity In navigating asymmetry through ambiguity, Sri Lanka’s experience is filtered through ...

By Tisaranee Gunasekara For King Dutugemunu there is no rest. With distressing regularity, he is summoned in the service of ...

The process of releasing military-held land in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka back to its legitimate civilian owners is a ...

By Uditha Devapriya Review of Sacred Sites of Sri Lanka by Donald Stadtner (River Books Thailand, Sailfish Publications Sri Lanka, 324 pages, Rs 10,000) I don’t think it’s proper to begin a book ...