This differed from old colonisation schemes, which could be defended as fulfilling an economic purpose. The new one which came to be called Weli Oya (the Tamil Manal Aru, or Sand River, in Sinhalese), ...

Sri Lanka’s closely guarded political secret, that the owners of two media organisations have been brokering Sajith Premadasa’s entry as Deputy Leader of the United National Party (UNP), on behalf of ...