GOING GLOBAL Dhanush, whose big Hollywood break in The Gray Man is a follow-up to his 2018 international debut The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, is understandably gung-ho. The film has his char...

When future generations talk about what is happening in Sri Lanka today, do you think they will recall The Bed? Do you think, like the burning of the Jaffna library in 1981, there will be politic...

Even after the Second World War, there have been numerous conflicts between countries, civil wars within nations, and continuous instances of ethnic hatred and racial violence. The list is long: Korea...

Actor Naseeruddin Shah has said those calling for a genocide of Muslims are in effect calling for a full-scale civil war. In an interview to The Wire seeking his opinion on the genocide calls, Shah t...

Expressing concern over the involvement of external actors in Syria, India has said it is committed to advancing a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned UN-facilitated political process to bring long-term secur...

Occasionally, an event takes place which illuminates in a flash of light the appalling injustice amidst which we live in this world every day of our lives. Such an event changes the way we look at the...

They cite the horrific year of 1968 when the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated while campuses and inner cities erupted over the Vietnam War and civil rights. And th...

As the dust clears after the US elections, the preferred choice of most of its 160 million voters lies clearly with Joseph Biden for president. Among the issues that Biden faces is the place and role ...

The prose itself is a marvel because of Kumarasamy’s attention to ugliness,” The New York Times has observed about Akil Kumarasamy’s debut novel Half Gods that has created a stir in the literary...

Sri Lanka’s born-again prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, must feel he is among kindred spirits in Delhi. His hosts will have explained that while the English name, Palk Strait, divides the two coun...