Ralph Peiris News Today

By Shamindra Ferdinando A section of the international media pounced on Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s declaration that Sri Lanka procured weapons from North Korea during the Eelam War IV (2006-2009). Sri Lanka’s ‘Independence Day’ parade, too, drew public attention after The Tamil Guardian, UK reported how a military float, carrying the war wounded, was decorated […]

By G. B. Morrel   In 1970-71, when I was enrolled at Maharagama Teachers’ College, the JVP, better known then as Che Guevarists, were active there, most noticeably in the hand-written posters they plastered on the parapet wall at the entrance. But we English trainees, the “kaduwa” group, had little interest in revolutionary politics. Then, […]