Opinion

Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and his Bangladeshi counterpart, Mohammad Jashim Uddin, who met in Dhaka on Monday, voiced the concerns of their countries while at the same time expressing …

Sri Lanka is known as a country that provides labour. It’s our most enduring national export. But we are also known as the nation that encourages any type of foreign …

In Sri Lanka, the whole concept of education seems to be based on three main examinations – the Scholarship Examination (Year 5), the GCE Ordinary Level (O/L) Examination (Grade 11) …

Secular and Hindu nationalist historians are furiously fighting over the ideology and actions of Tipu Sultan, an 19th century Indian Muslim ruler of the South Indian State of Mysore. The …

What spurs the capitalist economy? It is pure and simple greed. Or is it? The years between 1870 and 1900 in the U.S.A, for instance, were called the Gilded Age. …

The cellular telephone or rather its modern incarnation – the smartphone – has become almost an extension of our body. It is 24/7 with us, giving us updates about our …

Relations between Bangladesh and India, which nosedived following the ouster of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August, appear set to deteriorate further. A sharpening of Muslim-Hindu conflict in Chittagong, …

It has become almost cliché-like to say that Tamil politics has undergone a sea change, as indicative from last week’s election results. What has happened? Tamil voters in the Eastern …

Roads are as old as time. They take us to places far and near, whether on foot, car, bus or motorcycle. The concept of roads as we know them now …

There is a worrying rise in armed militancy in the North-Eastern Indian State of Manipur. The minority Christian Kuki tribe is taking up arms to resist the domination of the …