Some Malaiyaha Tamils displaced by Cyclone Ditwah wait for transitional shelters in tents. Many need permanent housing. Their wait, prolonged by bureaucratic bottlenecks and plantation companies’ reluctance to let go of profitable land, exposes how disasters disproportionately harm minority groups.

If scheduled fuel shipments and expected rains don’t materialise, power cuts are likely over the coming months. Even if fuel and rains arrive on time, electricity prices are still set to rise.

Welcome the Avurudhu sale: Aluwihare heritage centre’s for our supporters, BMICH’s for our subscribers. Tumble into the trance this weekend. Psychethaalam at candiroom and at the Lotus Tower, desperately trying to redeem itself,

The church knew of sexual abuse allegations against one of their teacher-priests, Gregory Fernando. They transferred him to India for a couple of years, then returned him to classrooms in Kandy, where he continued to molest young children. Faced with their indiscretions, they refuse to repent.

As war rattles the Gulf, nearly a million Sri Lankans living and working there are uncertain about their safety and livelihoods. Yet most are choosing to stay as the money is ‘too good to let go’.

SriLankan Airlines has accrued billions of rupees in losses. Many believe the government should sell it, restructure it, or simply run it better. But Stefan Furkhan argues the biggest problem isn’t ownership, it’s clarity.

This evening, Saskia’s gallery promises not to give a damn. But their group exhibition, Little do I care, doesn’t live up to its name — with “measured resistance to histories of control”.  The rebellious

A review of Richard Simon’s Thomia, subtitled ‘the entangled history of Lanka and her greatest public school’. A history of failed promise and a requiem to Anglophone Lanka, Thomia traces the mighty currents, momentous events, and complex men who forged the fate of independent Sri Lanka.