Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga – who celebrates her 80th birthday on 29 June 2025 – made history in November 1994 when she was elected as Sri Lanka’s first female executive president. Kumaratunga ...

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Shanmuganathan Sivashankar alias “Pottu Ammaan”, the former intelligence chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a keen topic of discussion these days within a Europe ...

It can be seen that the Tamil parties have divided into two camps, namely the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) and the Tamil People’s Council (TPC). They compete with each other in the process of ...

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Leading Tamil film actor Kamal Haasan -who is no stranger to Sri Lankan film fans – is very much in the news lately, for three reasons. Firstly the actor-politico will be elected in ...

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj The evolution and growth of the armed struggle for the goal of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka saw many Tamil militant groups emerge across the politico-military horizon. There was a time ...

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj The first Sinhala language feature film “Kadawunu Poronduwa” (Broken Promise) premiered on 21 January 1947 at the Kingsley theatre in Colombo. Four months after that historic event ...

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj The Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) led National People’s Power (NPP) recorded a landslide victory at the Parliamentary elections held in November 2024. The personal popularity of ...

By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham While addressing the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) at the Viharamahadevi Park in Colombo on 14 May, President Anura Kumara ...

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) deputy military chief Kandiah Balasegaran alias ‘Brigadier’ Balraj is regarded as the finest military commander the tigers ever had.

By M.A.Sumanthiran (M.A. Sumanthiran is a President’s Counsel practising at Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court, a former Member of Parliament of Jaffna, and the General Secretary of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu ...

The Lamb of God is victorious! That is why, today, we can joyfully cry out: “Christ, my hope, has risen!” (Easter Sequence).The resurrection of Jesus is indeed the basis of our hope. For in the light ...