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By Darshi Thoradeniya I would like to throw out some ideas on the importance of critical thinking in higher education especially in relation to history teaching by expanding the profound thoughts on decolonising education, expressed by Harshana Rambukwella, earlier in this column. Just as educational institutions served to colonise subjects in colonial settings, the decolonising […]

The first event, held at the Irish Pub, last December, was a success. It was, in fact, a ‘full house,’ they say. Singer-entertainer Sohan, the leader of the group Sohan & The X-Periments, promised a repeat, and he is doing just that. ‘Legends of Ceylon’ will move into action, again, for the second time, at […]

Joan Didion was a working writer, notes David Ulin, editor of her Library of America editions. She achieved greatness by struggling from job to job.

A detailed look at the late writer's early-'70s studio films with husband John Gregory Dunne, "The Panic in Needle Park" and "Play It as It Lays"

One of its founders asks what went wrong.

The Victorian Age gets its reputation for uptight prudishness from her, but there was a lot more to Queen Victoria than you may know.

Books by economist Thomas Sowell included observations that other scholars writing on the same subject had missed altogether or underplayed.

David Adam addresses Marx’s concept of a socialist society in relation to various concepts of the state.

盟友庇护所行动：美国将开始空运转移帮助美军的阿富汗人 “在具体人数方面，出于行动和安全原因，我无法向你们提供，”白宫新闻秘书珍·莎琪(Jen Psaki)对记者们说。“但是我可以证实，为已经处在审批程序中的SIV申请人而安排的飞离阿富汗的航班，将在7月最后一个星期开始，并将持续下去。我们的目标是把符合资格的人在8月底(美国)军队撤走之前转移出该国。” 美国官...

A writer argues that colonial Britain’s policies impoverished Bengal, impacting the whole country