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Sri Lanka has long been subject to extremist violence. Easter Sunday’s coordinated bomb blasts, which killed almost 300 and injured hundreds more, are the latest in a long history of ethno-religious ...

History and memory complement each other in unimaginable ways. Some might disagree with this notion, but both concepts relate different stories that tend to converge with time. Basing this notion as a ...

Sri Lanka has undergone one of the sharpest and fastest episodes of austerity in history, driven by a massive retrenchment in public investment and the suppression of real wages, according to a World ...

Abroad, India’s RSS Speaks of ‘Love.’ At Home, Its Affiliates Attack Christians. Sri Lanka’s independence process is very much lauded by scholars and historians. The author of a “History of Sri Lanka, ...

In Sri Lanka, a wave of eight bomb attacks on Easter Sunday sparked a sense of both sickening familiarity and new disquiet. Throughout the morning and afternoon, in and around the capital, Colombo, ...

In the modern history of Sri Lanka, few legacies have left as indelible an imprint on the collective destiny of its people as the unique free education system. Envisioned and introduced by the late ...

The formation of Chabad houses in Weligama and the East Coast sparked a mass agitation across the country, paving the path for many social media pundits to depict Jewish tourists to the island as ...

After a civil war that dragged on for nearly three decades, Sri Lanka had been enjoying a decade of relative calm. That was shattered on Sunday when a coordinated bombing attack killed more than 200 ...