Guns and grouses
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka: After her release from a rehabilitation camp for former Tamil Tigers fighters in 2011, one former member of the women-only Malathi Brigade...
Schneiderman called me ‘brown slave,’ slapped me until I called him ‘Master’
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called his Sri Lankan girlfriend his “brown slave” and wanted her to refer to him as “Master,” the woman...
Families of the missing lose hope despite OMP being established
By Easwaran Rutnam
The families of the disappeared from Kilinochchi who have been protesting for over a year demanding answers have now lost faith in...
After 22 years, Sri Lankan worker in Saudi receives benefits
A domestic aide who left Saudi Arabia 22 years ago will soon receive his end-of-service awards in Colombo. His Saudi sponsor, who died six...
Language issue crops up in case involving Prof. Hoole
N. Lohahayalan, Jaffna Correspondent
On Thursday 14.12.2017, Mullaitivu Magistrate Mohammed S.M. Samsuddin declared Prof. S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole of the Election Commission not guilty of...
A port town’s story of myopic vision and fading development
By Meera Srinivasan
“One job per family” is what Sri Lankan authorities promised families like that of Y.B. Henry while taking over their land in 2009...
Wounded victims of Sri Lanka’s child marriage law
In Sri Lanka the legal marriage age is 18, but under a decades-old community law, much younger Muslim girls can get married. As calls...
A visionary leader in the recycling sector
Kaushal Rajapaksa: A visionary leader in the recycling sector
By Ranjit J Perera
His vision is to establish a Global Recycling Village in Sri Lanka utilizing...
Central Bank bombing: 21 years later
by Ashanthi Warunasuriya
One of the deadliest attacks carried out in Colombo during the 30 year war was the bombing of the Central Bank. On...
Tamil MP’s family awaits justice but hopes fade
By Meera Srinivasan
It was the Christmas weekend last year. Praviinaa Raviraj woke up and looked at the newspapers. ‘All accused released’, the front-page headlines...
Rebuilding lives and homes shattered by war
By GEETA ANAND and DHARISHA BASTIANS
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka — On a small wooden table at the doorway to this bright-turquoise house in Kilinochchi, the...
Surgeon gives Lankan girl new lease of life
A rare case of scoliosis (curved spine) was surgically corrected in a 10-hour marathon surgery by a city-based neuro surgeon, Dr Damandeep Singh Makkar,...
Girl from Sri Lanka with Down syndrome reunited with family
A nine-year-old Sri Lankan girl denied an Australian visa because she has Down syndrome has been reunited with her family in Western Australia.
Eliza Fonseka's...
Sri Lankan asylum seeker tells of terror on Nauru
A Sri Lankan asylum seeker brought to Australia after she was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted on Nauru has spoken of her terror at...
Melissa Day’s tea revolution is far from over
After a year of fundraising and campaigning, Melissa Day’s efforts to start a ‘tea revolution’ by raising awareness about how many mass market leaves...
Sooka reignites ‘White Van’ abductions debate
By Easwaran Rutnam
The change of government last year gave a sigh of relief to most people in the North and East and even in...
Sri Lanka seeks ways to turn El Niño pain into gain
Rice farmer Weerasinghearchchilage Darmarathana is used to periodic flooding in his low-lying village of Galella in central Sri Lanka.
The 60-year-old has lived all his...
Sri Lanka celebrates Christmas in hope for stable 2016
by Jamila Najmuddin
COLOMBO, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Along with millions of Christians worldwide, Sri Lankan Christians on Friday celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ...
‘My ambition is to be a voice for those who don’t or can’t speak...
Oslo City Hall seems a fitting place to meet Khamshajiny Gunaratnam for the first time. This grand 20th-century building hosts the Nobel Peace Prize...
Post war development not for all
A mother and her two children walk along a long dusty road in the scorching sun as they make their way home.
The Korakankaddu village...