As is well known Muralitharan broke away from the LTTE and formed the paramilitary Karuna Group, which worked on behalf of the Sri Lankan Army during the war. The inclusion of Muralitharan alias “Col” ...

Colombo, March 16: Karuna projected himself as the Eastern national leader”, second only to Prabhakaran in the LTTE hierarchy. He kept the LTTE’s resistance alive during the days of the Indian Peace ...

When the U.S. military refused to let women pilots enlist and the editor of an aviation magazine scoffed at “the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the ...

Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth adding to your bookshelf. Written as a series of personal reflections, ...

Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...