It is against this backdrop that this column focuses this week on Anton Stanislaus Balasingham whose 18th death anniversary is on 14 December. Balasingham known as Bala “Annai” (elder brother) was a ...

The recently held parliamentary elections have resulted in the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP)led National People’s Power(NPP) winning 159 seats and forming the Government. The Samagi Jana ...

One of the few silver linings to emerge from this cloud of political uncertainty was Sri Lanka’s spritely Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who, at age 55, became the youngest president elected by Sri Lankans ...

Anura was of course alluding to the November 14 parliamentary election in which the AKD led JVP-NPP came first in all electoral districts of Sri Lanka except Batticaloa. That eastern district went to ...