Vijay’s two-year-old political party has redrawn the Tamil Nadu electoral map. Though he echoed the long-standing consensus on Sri Lankan issues, this fresh chapter in Tamil Nadu politics may be an opportunity to ‘reset’ Lanka-Tamil Nadu relations.

Railways are poorly maintained, track length is shrinking, and the share of passengers using trains is reducing. H.R. Pasindu thinks Sri Lanka Railways can reverse this decline, if it copies the Road Development Authority.

Whether you’re in awe over the Met Gala costumes or in a rage over Jeff Bezos’ money, Take a Chill Pill at Radicle to get the edge off. If that’s not enough, Love,

Sinhalese smut online is flaccid, having lost the emotional complexity of classical and modern erotic literature. Yet audiences are turning to niche subgenres, like Korean-inspired boys’ love and erotica written by women.

In B reports obtained by The Examiner, the CID establishes a link between Suresh Sallay and an ISIS suspect. Other intelligence officers are also implicated. Sallay’s court submission calls the investigation a witch hunt.

The Sri Lankan poet-king Kumaradasa fashioned his Ramayana from the familiar ingredients of great epics: gods, demons, wars, and sex. But it remains forgotten. To recover it is to recognise the sophisticated Sri Lankan engagement with Sanskrit literary culture.

Mayday, mayday! May is here, but barely yet the monsoon. Too much to do, and too much heat to do it in.  Poison returns for the weekend. Though sold out twice before, Polymarket isn’t

Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s victory marked a high-water point for Sinhalese nationalism. But the NPP’s recent success in the North shows that its power is receding. Reading Rajesh Venugopal’s 2018 economic history suggests that the structural conditions which sustain this ideology are becoming weaker.