How Indian conman Sukesh wooed and won Jacqueline
At first Bahrain-Lankan model Jacqueline Fernandez, who made good in Bollywood, refused to take the call from a mystery man last December who identified himself simply as ‘Shekhar Ratna Vela’. But that did not deter India’s ace conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar who knew there was more ways than one to skin a cat. In January this [...]
Law and order with justice: New challenges
Justice is a judicial function. This is a statement made, directly and by inference, at the November 16, 2021 proceedings of the United Kingdom Justice Committee (JC). Chief Justice Lord Burnett was also in attendance and gave evidence. They declared firmly that Justice is the central judicial function of courts. A truism of justice is [...]
A welcome effort to take Tamil poetry to English literary world
In one of his oft-quoted poems, Rudyard Kipling brings out the point that East is East, West is West; Nether the twain shall meet. Should it be so for literary works also? As the cultural diffusion takes place from the culture of the dominant world power to the cultures of the subservient periphery, we are [...]
The police story as told by a committed police officer
Reviewed by Dr. Frank de Silva, former Inspector General of Police The book ‘Human Rights and Policing’ authored by Tassie Seneviratne, a Retired Senior Superintendent of Police, is a welcome addition to literature on Police. Many earlier books on policing have a limited focus which does not project beyond the narration. This account of Tassie’s [...]
Imagining a global digital order
By Josh Entsminger, Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, and Olaf Groth, exclusively for the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka LONDON – Although the digital revolution is now decades old, there still is no global digital economic order. Instead, there are competing visions of digital capitalism, predominantly articulated by the United States, China, and the European Union, [...]