Sri Lanka’s elite-driven independence process laid the groundwork for the problems that continue to plague the country today, from ethnic tensions to inequality.

Sri Lanka has experienced significant political change in recent times. The election of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in ...

Sri Lanka’s recently elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s political coalition, the National People’s Power (NPP), won ...

Physical connection to India could dissuade other countries from deepening ties with the island, as it will be seen as New ...

For many postcolonial societies education has historically been one of the primary sites of decolonisation. This is not ...

Debt-stricken Sri Lanka marked its 77th independence anniversary on Tuesday with a military parade, while the country’s newly elected president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, pledged to heal Sri ...

N ew Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has on the Independence Day of Sri Lanka ...

Independence Square, the site of Sri Lanka’s national day celebrations and home to the iconic Independence Memorial Hall, served as the symbolic backdrop for this deepening strategic partnership ...

PM Modi gets special welcome in Sri Lanka Today’s ceremonial welcome for PM Modi at Independence Square, Colombo was special as this is the first time Sri Lanka has accorded such a welcome to a ...

We are the only Centre in a Higher Education institution anywhere in the world to have published a series of 12 special blogposts to mark the 75 th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence ... written ...

Sri Lanka, which gained independence from Britain in 1948, suffered its worst economic crisis in 2022, forcing the island nation to declare bankruptcy. It also suspended repayments on some $83 ...