Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 02:47 pm
Opinion

Future Lanka leaders need to grasp nettles

THE New Year celebrations this year were low key compared to the past. The loud sound of crackers and other fireworks that traditionally accompany the dawn of the New Year

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A chronicle of Julian Assange’s imprisonment

AT THE behest of the United States government, the British government has detained WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his majesty’s Prison Belmarsh for five years. Assange is one of the

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US war against Yemen heats up

Slowly the US war on Yemen is turning into a quagmire for Pax Americana which can only respond in the language it knows best, brute force, writes Thomas C Mountain THE

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Cunning of gender violence

THE testimonies emerging from Palestinians held captive by the Israeli military in Al-Shifa hospital, which was under persistent siege for 14 days, are harrowing: torture, starvation, executions, the mutilation and

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Conundrum of Lanka elections and IMF programme

TRACING history and going back to the colonial era, Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that despite the adverse impact of world wars and internal conflicts, the country has

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Paralleling grassroot memories with historiography

THIS narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters on the eve of that epoch-making split. The middle of

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Gaza war sparks tensions

The Berlin International Film Festival is no stranger to politics. The Middle East conflict was bound to cause debates and protests this year, writes Elizabeth Grenier THE Berlinale is renowned as

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Palestine’s struggle for self-rule

THE world is consumed, pained, and angered by Israel’s uninterrupted bombing and killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank with an open genocidal intent that has entered its

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US complicity in Israel’s ‘plausible’ genocide

‘HONOURING our alliances does not mean facilitating mass killing,’ Representative Ocasio-Cortez said on the floor of the House of Representatives on March 22. ‘We cannot hide from our responsibility any

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How Was 12th National Parliamentary Election? (Last Part)

The voter turnout was far less than the declared figure as was perceived and was shown with reasons earlier. Naturally, the question arises of how the average of 41.8% voter

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