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Following their stunning victory in last week’s parliamentary election, the JVP/NPP leaders must still be pinching themselves ...

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Radhika Aligh heads to the Land of the Thunder Dragon for a historic pilgrimage through its mountains — and meets plenty of ...

Shurei Sasai has been devoting his life to freeing people from discrimination based on the Indian caste system for more than ...

The oldest form of Buddhism was a rejection of the world. It was a flee response.