Shenali D Waduge Where were all these LTTE fronts when Prabakaran was declared dead in May 2009, when his father died in 2010 & mother died in 2011? Not even Prabakarans siblings came to conduct his funeral or even the parent’s funeral. Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces cremated Prabakaran & threw his ashes to sea. His […]

Dilrook Kannangara There are 90 million Tamils globally and their population grows by more than 1 million each year. Those are massive numbers and don’t in anyway indicate suffering genocide”. Therefore, Canada’s Tamil genocide monument is a joke. It ridicules actual victims of genocide including original Canadians killed in their millions. In the case of […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi At the outset let me state that I am not a historian but a Civil and Structural Engineer with some knowledge about computer programming and IT. I have used the latter to gain advantage over others in my profession. However, the AI tools that are being sharpened almost daily in the form of […]

Leslie Alan Horvitz Courtesy Counterpunch Photo by Logan Voss In the 1983 film War Games, a supercomputer known as WOPR (for War Operation Plan Response) is about to provoke a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, but because of the ingenuity of a teenager (played by Matthew Broderick), catastrophe is averted. […]

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Pathfinder Foundation At a Hybrid meeting hosted by the Pathfinder Foundation, Dr. Liu Zongyi, Senior Fellow & Director, Center for South Asia Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), elaborated on China’s response to evolving economic policies amidst global uncertainty and its implications for South Asia and beyond.  In his presentation, Dr. Liu […]

Nava Thakuria The current interim government of Bangladesh, led by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, remains busy pursuing the final reports by a number of reform commissions with their proposals and subsequent discussions with the political party representatives. Even after nine months of its formation in Dhaka, the situation across the south Asian nation continues […]

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