"On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings of bamboo beads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies”.

The latest reports of the UN Secretary General’s – UNSG, on its work in Sri Lanka tell us many genuine facts which are strongly evidenced.

Entrepreneur and lawyer Meleni David is dedicated in providing excellent legal services to her clients and their families who have experienced personal injuries. Sri Lankan-born Meleni is a recipient of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants of 2012 Award and The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada Award from the Lieutenant Governor. In a conversation with Generation Next, the lawyer extraordinaire speaks about her challenges and the road to success.

The main block to Mahinda’s march to be a populist dictator is now Shirani, the chief justice. After the genocidal war the main aim the government pursues, with no consideration for cost or consequence, is to put Mahinda on a pedestal.

More than three years after the end of the 26-year armed conflict between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), nearly 470,000 people displaced during its various stages have returned to their home areas.

Professor Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was educated at the University of Philadelphia and at Harvard University as a Harvard Junior Fellow.

Sri Lanka’s quarter-century-long conflict with Tamil separatists has divided communities and polarised the media. Around 100,000 people died in the war and over a million fled to other countries. Both the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tigers used the media for propaganda purposes and resorted to violence to silence and suppress the free flow of information.

Among the first modern authors, to give principle theoretical foundations to the notion of ‘rule of law’ were Samuel Rutherford in Lex, Rex (1644). The title is Latin for "the law is king" and reverses the traditional "the king is the law”.

Be warned the nature of your oppresion is the aesthetic of our anger”

From the day of winning the right to vote to modern day feminist manifesto, autonomy has derived from claiming political rights as equalle to men.