18November2018
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lanka's disputed PM sacked by parliament for second time (VIDEO)
Mahinda Rajapaksa, controversially appointed as the 'prime minister' of Sri Lanka, was stripped of his post by parliament for the second time within two days. On Friday, a majority of lawmakers in the...
Interviews
Interviews
'Sri Lanka and Myanmar are ethnocratic states' - Dr Maung Zarni
'Enemy of the State' screamed the banner headline of a Burmese national newspaper in September, featuring full page photograph of Maung Zarni. More hatred follows, a week later. "These publications ar...
Politics & Current Affairs
UN and Sri Lanka president give conflicting accounts of a phone conversation
Vastly conflicting accounts have emerged of a conversation between the Sri Lanka...
Media
Sri Lanka terror police harass Tamil journalist for covering religious festival
An international media watchdog has urged the Sri Lanka government to stop haras...
Human Rights
Ongoing excavations find over 200 bodies in Sri Lanka mass grave
Investigators have unearthed 212 bodies in Sri Lanka's largest mass grave after ...
Politics & Economy
Don't Rehabilitate Sri Lanka's Tarnished Military
The Hindu recently ran a curious interview with Mahesh Senanayake, Commander of ...
Human Rights
Can OMP deliver justice when Sri Lanka's President won't?
Confronted by vocal and combative family members of the disappeared – nearly all...
Media & Culture
Impunity Island: Sri Lanka's haunting legacy of war on media
A lot can happen in the time between the World Press Freedom Day, May 3, to the ...
Reflections
Sarath: In memory of a friend across the cultural borders
Sarath Fernando will be remembered as a person who allied utopia with practicali...
Poetry & Prose
Get customized to laugh
When there’s chance,
To the, extent possible,
We will laugh aloud.
Pressure that ar...
Press Releases
Sri Lanka: 'End brutal crackdown against students' - JDS
The Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka has called on the Sri Lankan authorit...
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