Factum Special Perspective: Rejuvenating Football in Sri Lanka
2023-08-16
By Suhas Jayalath Sri Lanka has a growing but relatively small football culture. Widely considered the world’s most famous sport,Continue Reading
Factum Perspective: Recovering the Lost Paradise – Utopianism in Modern Sri Lankan Architecture and Landscaping
2023-08-12
By Dhanuka Bandara “It is necessary to cultivate our garden.” Voltaire, “Candide” On an artificial island surrounded by the DiyavannaContinue Reading
Factum Perspective: Child Labor in Sri Lanka – A Stolen Childhood and an Uncertain Future
2023-08-08
By Britney Martil In the serene landscapes of Sri Lanka, a dark reality persists beneath the surface, where the laughterContinue Reading
Factum Special Perspective: Sri Lanka’s trilemma
2023-07-26
By Uditha Devapriya Sri Lanka’s future lies in its ability to balance the three great powers in – and notContinue Reading
Factum Perspective: Ranil Wickremesinghe’s mission to New Delhi
2023-07-17
By Uditha Devapriya On July 2 and 3, Factum held its first Ambassadors’ Day at the Kataragama Esala Perahera. TheContinue Reading
Factum Special Perspective: Kataragama and its multiple meanings
2023-07-12
By Vinod Moonesinghe Historically, Sri Lankans have tended, whatever their faith, to tolerate other faiths. Indeed, to some extent everyContinue Reading
Factum Perspective: Cricket, politics, and power
2023-07-02
By Aavin Abeydeera Since its inception as an international sport, cricket has held the position of being a sport detachedContinue Reading
Factum Perspective: A Sri Lankan Huck Finn – Martin Wickramasinghe’s Madol Doova
2023-06-19
By Christine Hill Smith With a human history going back to 500 BCE, Sri Lanka has endured and occasionally benefitedContinue Reading
Factum Perspective: Thai elections – A challenge to the military
2023-05-29
By P. K. Balachandran In the May 14 elections to Thailand’s House of Representatives, the youth-led progressive Move Forward PartyContinue Reading
Factum Special Perspective: Reflections on Republic Day
2023-05-22
By Chandani Kirinde In an article published in the Ceylon Daily News of Monday, May 22, 1972, titled “The makingContinue Reading
Factum Special Perspective: Taiwan as a tool in the Indo-Pacific
2023-05-11
By Uditha Devapriya During a recent conference at the Moulton Institute in New York, US Congressman Seth Moulton contended thatContinue Reading
Factum Special Perspective: The BRICS Bank and Multipolar Multilateralism
2023-05-03
By Sanja de Silva Jayatilleka South Africa will be hosting the 15th BRICS summit this year from August 22 toContinue Reading
Factum Perspective: Central Bank Digital Currencies and Emerging Economies – Part I
2023-03-13
By Kasun Thilina Kariyawasam In a survey conducted by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in 2021, 90% of CentralContinue Reading
Factum Special Perspective: Safeguarding Sri Lanka
2023-02-22
By Vinod Moonesinghe Sri Lanka has, for 75 years, faced many internal and external threats, ranging from civil unrest, throughContinue Reading
Factum Perspective: Indo-Sri Lankan relations since independence – A checkered history
2023-02-13
By P. K. Balachandran India-Sri Lanka relations are undoubtedly at their best now, thanks to India’s timely and generous assistanceContinue Reading
Factum Perspective: How Sri Lanka obtained independence
2023-02-04
By Chandani Kirinde In 1918, George Wille, a Member of Ceylon’s Legislative Council, cited an interesting metaphor to describe theContinue Reading
Factum Special Perspective: Victoria Nuland in Sri Lanka
2023-02-01
By Uditha Devapriya US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland is on a tour in South AsiaContinue Reading
Factum Perspective: Robert Clive and the taking of India
2023-01-30
By Vinod Moonesinghe A 2002 poll carried out by the BBC, accompanying its TV series “Great Britons”, found that mostContinue Reading