The Sundaytimes Sri Lanka » Columns http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:56:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Why our reservoirs cannot prevent floods during extreme rainfall http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/sunday-times-2/why-our-reservoirs-cannot-prevent-floods-during-extreme-rainfall-625962.html 27 December 2025 @ 8:07 pm lt;strong gt;By Eng. Thushara Dissanayake lt;/strong gt; Our recent experience with the massive disaster brought by Cyclone Ditwah clearly indicated how vulnerable the country is to an extreme rainfall event. The impacts fell mainly into two categories: flooding across the major river basins and numerous landslides in the hill country. Many major river basins, including the Mahaweli, Kelani... Sri Lanka participates at United Nations Alliance of Civilizations segment http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/sunday-times-2/sri-lanka-participates-at-united-nations-alliance-of-civilizations-segment-625957.html 27 December 2025 @ 8:04 pm Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ameer Ajwad headed the Sri Lanka delegation at the 11th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh from December 14 ndash;15. Delivering Sri Lanka rsquo;s statement at the High-level Segment of the UNAOC on 14 December 2025, Ambassador Ameer Ajwad emphasized that dia... Marketing torture: Right- or left-handed, abuse is abuse http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/sunday-times-2/marketing-torture-right-or-left-handed-abuse-is-abuse-625955.html 27 December 2025 @ 8:02 pm lt;strong gt;By Thalif Deen lt;/strong gt; UNITED NATIONS (IPS) ndash; Jeanne Kirkpatrick, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, once made a highly debatable distinction between ldquo;friendly rdquo; right-wing ldquo;authoritarian rdquo; regimes (which were mostly US and Western allies) and ldquo;unfriendly rdquo; left-wing ldquo;totalitarian rdquo; dictatorships (which the US abh... Rogue hegemons are sabotaging the global economy http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/sunday-times-2/rogue-hegemons-are-sabotaging-the-global-economy-625982.html 27 December 2025 @ 7:14 pm lt;strong gt; lt;em gt;By Arvind Subramanian, PROJECT SYNDICATE, EXCLUSIVE TO THE SUNDAY TIMES IN SRI LANKA lt;/em gt; lt;/strong gt; lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;WASHINGTON, DC ndash; Although 2025 will probably be remembered as the year that US President Donald Trump upended the global trading system, the truth is that both of the world rsquo;s hegemon...