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 ...

The Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi (ITAK) leader, Mavai Somasundaram Senathiraja, is no more. During the time he was displaced from Jaffna ...

Veteran Tamil political leader Somasundaram Senathirajah popularly known as “Maavai” Senathirajah breathed his last on 29 ...

The alternative visions of AI about a future Sri Lanka would definitely remind us of our past as well as our future. Where we are today when we celebrate our 77-year Independence, is due to the ...

Farewell to journalist Furio Colombo, who died this morning in Rome ... we owe to him the institution of the Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Shoah on January 27, established in 2000.

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

Jaffna known as “Yaarlpaanam” in Tamil and “Yaapanaya” in Sinhala is the capital city of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province.

Zoher Abdoolcarim, the former Asia editor of Time magazine, talks about making Lee Kuan Yew cry and why being a true ...

From creating worlds that are ‘Lynchian’ to coping with rejection letters from editors, British author Sophie Mackintosh ...

To grow oranges for profit and pleasure, was one of my prewar ambitions. And in the course of learning the business I met, at different times and places, some exceptional persons including Mustapha ...

Veteran Tamil political leader Somasundaram Senathirajah popularly known as “Maavai” Senathirajah breathed his last on 29 January 2025. The octogenarian six-footer suffered a brain concussion after a ...