At the fifth DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, held 21-25 January, the Kumbh Mela met a five-day Punjabi wedding at the Diggi Palace, a grandiose 1860s structure owned by
At the heart of the Indian foreign-policy and security architecture is the pre-eminent position of the national-security advisor (NSA). The recent decision to appoint former Foreign Secretary
The major lesson of the first post-war national election in Sri Lanka is that politics in the country is transforming. The debates, the challenges and the election itself were
´Hope´: By Chandraguptha Thenuwara
The civil war in Sri Lanka ended on 17 May 2009 with a grave human tragedy, and the plight of war-affected Tamil civilians remains distressing.
Up-country Tamil plantation workers remain a subjugated community, treated as little more than bonded labour. The current political foment includes opportunities for change.
Ben Bavinck, a Dutchman born in Indonesia, lived in Jaffna from 1954 until 1972, as a missionary and a staff member of Jaffna College. In 1988, two years before fighting
Few celebrated the birth of the University of Jaffna in 1974, when it came into existence as a campus affiliated to the University of Sri Lanka. The demand for a
There is an exquisite photograph by the US space agency NASA of Sri Lanka and part of the Subcontinent from space, taken during the Gemini 11 mission in September 1966
Elephant Pass is the narrow strip of land connecting the island landmass of Sri Lanka to its northern Jaffna Peninsula. Bordered on left and right by lagoons and marshes, this
Use twice per decade for purging, my new matchbox, Fire-brand matches, states in small letters on the back. My father would have really liked this one, as he was
PARKS AND WILDLIFE
A Bi-NationalPark For Everest?
For a whiie, it seemed that the plan to expand Sagarmatha National Park and to connect it to an even larger park…
