Months after the opening night of their debut play Period Parrrty, Gayathiri Kamalakanthan releases their first book; a novel-in-verse titled Bad Queer. Published by Faber & Faber with illustrations by Chi Nwosu, Bad Queer is a coming-of-age tale following Surya who navigates their first love as a non-binary teenager.

Photograph by Priya Tharmaseelan

When Sunthar V stepped onto the stage at Massey Hall, it marked a defining moment.

A memorial observance for Poopathy Kanapathipillai, affectionately known as Annai Poopathy, who fasted unto death in pursuit of justice for the Eelam Tamil people, was commemorated at Arivagam, the Kilinochchi District office of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK).

Russia's Deputy Minister of Energy, Roman Marshavin, met Sri Lanka’s president Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Colombo on Thursday, as Sri Lanka sought its way through the deepening fuel crisis this week.

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Millions of Sri Lankans stayed at home on Wednesday as the government's newly imposed four-day working week for state institutions came into effect, marking the latest emergency measure in a rapidly deepening energy crisis triggered by the war in the Middle East. 

A woman has been rescued alive from a well in Kokkatticholai, Batticaloa, while the decomposed body of another woman was recovered from the same location, prompting an ongoing investigation by Sri Lankan police.

Sri Lanka's Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial in the assassination case of Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj, setting aside a High Court acquittal that had stood for nearly a decade and drawing fresh attention to a killing that has come to symbolise the island’s culture of impunity.

A new concept paper published in February by the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice sets out a detailed proposal for an independent DNA bank to identify the remains of Sri Lanka's forcibly disappeared, offering what its authors describe as a credible scientific pathway to truth after decades of failure by successive governments.

Former Sri Lankan troops, including personnel from the Special Task Force (STF), and several military welfare associations took to the streets of Colombo last week, staging a protest near Fort Railway Station to demand legal rights and financial benefits for those injured during the armed conflict.