Category: Humanity

Update: This article was revised on July 17, 2024. The title was changed from “Contemplating Suicide? Contemplate Again!” to “Choosing Life: A Second Thought on Suicide.” Suicide poses a grave and pervasive challenge to our island nation today. Dr Neil Fernando, head of the National Institute of Mental Health, emphasized back in September 2011 that…

On March 01st, 2021 the Sri Lanka Police found unattended luggage in the streets of Colombo. Inside, they found a headless female body. In a similar incident on 30th July 2015, they found another female body in luggage left behind in the street. Besides having been murdered both victims shared another common factor. They both…

In my previous blog post, “Social Media is the New Face of Porn” I discussed in detail how pornographers cleverly use social media platforms as vehicles to distribute and promote pornography to a wider audience. Social media has become an effective carrier that allows them to reach people more easily and covertly than ever before….

I bent over to tie my shoe. When I stood back up, a guy shouted, “Really liked it better when you were bent over, sweetheart!” I was 14. (Anonymous Victim of Street Harassment). Here’s a statement by just one of the countless women who face harassment in the streets at the hands of men like…

In parts of the world where abortion is illegal, botched abortions cause about 8 to 11 percent of all maternal deaths, or about 30,000 each year. [Source: The Atlantic] Consequently, Health Care Professionals, Women’s Rights Activists, and Politicians are campaigning for the decriminalization of abortion and expansion of the circumstances in which a woman can…

Modern media prefers the term “sex-worker” instead of “prostitute” when referring to women who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual intercourse because it feels the former is more polite and respectful. At the same time, the latter, on the other hand, is rude and disrespectful. May I remind you, however, there’s nothing honourable…