Concept: Senaka Weeraratna Royal College 1960 group. Establishing an annual Royal College Oration is a compelling idea to foster critical thought and public speaking among alumni ...

In his incomplete autobiography, “NM in his Own Words,” Dr. N.M. Perera highlighted a fundamental ideological and cultural contrast between his time at S.

Although each country’s circumstances are different, one common lesson is that economic opportunity is essential for long-term stability. Sri Lanka should learn from these experiences. Creating only ...

PRESS RELEASE Free Lawyers Sri Lanka Colombo. Free Lawyers Sri Lanka strongly opposes the government’s hasty move, reported in yesterday’s government-owned Sunday Observer, to ...

The Negombo prison riot of July 2026, was the first time, that prison officers had been brutally attacked in Sri Lanka and murdered by prison inmates. Of those killed, eight belonged to the Prison ...

The perspective that missionary historical narratives on Sri Lanka constitute historical revisionism driven by foreign agendas is a significant theme within modern post-colonial and nationalist ...

Selective amnesia is a popular propaganda and political trick. Those who howl about Black July 1983 pretend not to know about the happenings immediately before that. It certainly did not happen in a ...

Despite this, there have been two heavy handed government initiatives to curb narcotic use. The first was Yukthiya” (2023) under President Ranil Wickremesinghe followed by Ratama Ekata” (2025) under ...

Yes, I met him i.e.,Sir Garfield Sobers, in a face to face chance encounter in Melbourne sometime in 1983. I was then working as a Legal Officer for the office of the Federal Special Prosecutor headed ...

Shenali D Waduge ‘ Black July is just one of many painful chapters in Sri Lanka’s modern history. The suffering, the destruction of homes and businesses, and the failure of th ...

The destruction of the Royal Palace at Hanguranketha (burnt by British forces under Major Johnson in 1803, and devastated during the 1818 rebellion) and the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) in Beijing ...

By exposing students to real-world offshore engineering challenges and environmental responsibilities, this workshop aims to ignite their interest in careers that can contribute to national ...