October 2025


Business Cycles: Why Balance Sheet Economic Truths Should Guide Sri Lanka's Recovery

Business Cycles: Why Balance Sheet Economic Truths Should Guide Sri Lanka's Recovery

Modern economic discourse is often fractured by ideological debates that obscure a more fundamental, mechanical reality. Beneath the surface of political agendas and economic schools of thought lies an immutable operating system: the universal framework of double-entry accounting. This is not merely a corporate bookkeeping tool but the fundamental grammar of all economic activity. Every transaction, from a local purchase to a sovereign debt issuance, creates an inseparable duality—an asset for o


Dr. Kenneth De Zilwa

Dr. Kenneth De Zilwa

EY Report Exposes Higher Education Crisis in North as Thousands of Students Shut Out

EY Report Exposes Higher Education Crisis in North as Thousands of Students Shut Out

Each year, thousands of academically qualified students in northern Sri Lanka are denied access to university education, perpetuating regional inequality and threatening the nation's ambitions to become a digital economy leader, according to a new feasibility study. The study, conducted by Ernst & Young (EY) in partnership with the Magick Group, reveals that across Sri Lanka, only 40,000 of the nearly 280,000 students who sit for university entrance exams gain admission to state universities —


Jaffna Monitor

Jaffna Monitor

International Investigation Essential for Chemmani Mass Grave, Says Jehan Perera

International Investigation Essential for Chemmani Mass Grave, Says Jehan Perera

The skeletal remains being recovered from the Chemmani mass grave constitute primary evidence of massacres and warrant an international investigation, said Jehan Perera, Executive Director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, during a visit to Jaffna this week. Jehan Perera emphasized that the discoveries at Chemmani represent undeniable proof of deliberate killings and called for professional international expertise to ensure a credible investigation into the site. "The skeletal remain


Jaffna Monitor

Jaffna Monitor

Fonseka Says Mahinda Rajapaksa Deserves Hanging; SLPP Hits Back, Calls Him a Dog
Then President Mahinda Rajapaksa greets then–Chief of Defence Staff Sarath Fonseka in Colombo.

Fonseka Says Mahinda Rajapaksa Deserves Hanging; SLPP Hits Back, Calls Him a Dog

Former Army Commander and ex-MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has launched a scathing attack on former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, accusing him of colluding with the LTTE during the final stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war, misappropriating state assets, and betraying the nation’s trust. In an explosive remark, Fonseka declared that his former boss “deserves death by hanging.” Mahinda’s party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), was also not holding its tongue, firing back with a barrage of co


Our Reporter

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JVP Government to Repeal Prevention of Terrorism Act, Says General Secretary Tilvin Silva

JVP Government to Repeal Prevention of Terrorism Act, Says General Secretary Tilvin Silva

The General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Tilvin Silva, has announced that the government has begun the process of repealing the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), a controversial law that has been in force since 1979. Speaking at a recent discussion held at the Mahaweli Centre in Colombo, Silva also characterized the 1983 Black July pogrom as a calculated political move by then-President J.R. Jayewardene to construct an authoritarian state through the mobilization of Sinhal


Jaffna Monitor

Jaffna Monitor

Arundhati Roy Says Gaza Echoes Sri Lanka’s Final War

Arundhati Roy Says Gaza Echoes Sri Lanka’s Final War

Booker Prize–winning author and political activist Arundhati Roy has drawn direct parallels between the Israeli assault on Gaza, which has since come to a ceasefire, and Sri Lanka’s military offensive  in 2009, describing both as examples of unchecked, state-led massacres that have reshaped the global standard for impunity. In a wide-ranging interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan, Roy described the carnage in Gaza as "a genocide unfolding before us, in a way that has never been so visible to the


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Karaithuraipatru Council Shuts Army Salon — Residents Left to Pay the Price

Karaithuraipatru Council Shuts Army Salon — Residents Left to Pay the Price

A military-operated salon in northern Sri Lanka has been ordered to close by local authorities, sparking debate over business competition, union influence, and the affordability of basic services in war-affected communities. The Karaithuraipatru Pradeshiya Sabha issued a directive to shut down “Blue Bells Salon,” which had been run by the Sri Lankan Army on Forest Department land in Kepapulavu, Mullaitivu District. Council Cites Economic Impact Chinnarasa Logeswaran,  chairman of the Karaith


Jaffna Monitor

Jaffna Monitor

“When the Guns Fell Silent, So Did Our Art and Literature”: Aingaranesan

“When the Guns Fell Silent, So Did Our Art and Literature”: Aingaranesan

“Just as the weapons fell silent in Mullivaikkal, our art and literature too have lost their voice,” lamented P. Aingaranesan, leader of the Tamil National Green Movement and author of Vermugangal (Rooted Faces). His latest book is a collection of interviews with leading figures in art and literature conducted by Aingaranesan himself. Speaking at the launch of the book in Mulliyawalai recently, Aingaranesan said art and literature once carried the heartbeat of the Tamil national struggle—explai


Jaffna Monitor

Jaffna Monitor