The surprised multitude, wherever they came from, would have liked to have collected a degree or two. Even a Third Degree would have been welcome to take home and even hoodwink some naïve ...

A person of big ideas and an even bigger humanistic imagination," Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and ...

Solo travel is having a moment. For me—a backpacker at heart, with a penchant for arty, boutique hotels—that moment began around 20 years ago when I embarked on my first solo sojourn to Central ...

The incomplete skyscraper was the only building to collapse in the lightly damaged Thai capital. The disaster exposed allegedly substandard steel reinforcing rods which had snapped, reducing the ...

To understand the history of the Indian Ocean trade, it is important to firstly understand its location and geographical ...

The DCA marks a significant strategic shift, drawing Sri Lanka more firmly into India’s regional security calculus.” ...

Of the several MOUs signed by the President of Sri Lanka during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Sri Lanka, the most consequential in respect of implications to Sri Lanka is the one associated with the ...

“The Gathering” in Sri Lanka’s Minneriya National Park is said to be among the world’s most spectacular wildlife phenomena. Every year, hundreds of elephants gather on a dry lakebed in the park that ...

In response to the new challenges stemming from the way the war ended, Sri Lanka’s foreign policy was forced to redefine its priorities. The Sinhala nationalist clientele of the regime gave currency ...

Sri Lanka’s medal tally increased to three at the 6th Asian Youth Athletic Championships currently taking place in Amman, Saudi Arabia. On the second day of the meet, Sri Lanka’s Lahiru Achintha won ...