by Dr. Upatissa Pethiyagoda Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe (ex-PM, ex-MP and now President) is reported to have berated the present government authorities, for going around begging for...
(This article was published late last year in the run up to the 50th anniversary of the original publication. The ‘author’ of the notice, the late...
Colombo has demonstrated its own brand of strategic autonomy on issues from Russia’s war in Ukraine to China’s global footprint By Michael Kugelman Most South Asian governments...
by Rajan Philips On Thursday, in New York, President Joe Biden and his two Democratic predecessors, Barrack Obama and Bill Clinton, appeared together in a fund...
by Kumar David Russia is exultant about the outcome of the Presidential election. The poll was 77% of the electorate and Putin secured 87% of the...
by Rajan Philips The Election Commission of India has set a staggering 44-day timetable for the country’s 18th Lok Sabha elections, between April 19 and June...
View from the gallery by Saman Indrajith The three-day debate on the No-confidence Motion against Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena offers an insight into the prevailing ‘dump...
by Rajan Philips The economy is the base; everything else is superstructure. That is the old Marxian concept, simply put. The base ultimately determines what goes...
View from the gallery by Saman Indrajith Shortly after the announcement of the new chairmen for the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and the Committee on...
By Uditha Devapriya and Rumeth Jayasinghe Like most South Asian countries, Sri Lanka will face elections this year. Both the government and the Opposition are busy...