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.

From a toehold then, to a freehold today, Israel has turned international law, UN mechanisms for a safer world and street ethics, on its head.

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 ...

Instead of 44% , Sri Lanka today faces a US 20% tariff! President Disanayake has proved that he can actually get into the ring and win!

The first part of this article titled “Black July; Anatomy of an Anti-Tamil Pogrom” was a brief overview of the horrific anti-Tamil violence that engulfed the Sri Lankan nation in July 1983. The ...

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 ...

Why Channel 4 TV Whistleblower Azad Maulana Fled from Sri Lanka Via India to Seek Asylum in Switzerland.

Tamil Daily Virakesari’s “Seithi Mannan” (News King) Sellathurai was the Doyen of Jaffna Journalists.