Today we Sri Lankans are a people ransomed by successive national governments to foreign creditors and super powers who hold us Lilliputians in their Gulliver palms!...
By Uditha Devapriya One of the most important debates to emerge from the history of the Left movement in Sri Lanka – by which I include...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Armies in the midst of combat learn incredibly fast. This isn’t the case with peacetime militaries, as has been evident in Sri Lanka.During...
By Uditha Devapriya By now we know that the government’s prescription for the economic crisis is greater austerity. The regime has outright rejected welfare measures or...
By Uditha Devapriya The World Socialist Website (WSWS) quotes Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in a television programme, as admitting that Sri Lanka has no choice but “to...
by Syed Ali Mujtaba President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced his intent to resolve the long-standing North-East Tamil national question. This perhaps he is doing at the...
By Varatharaja Perumal Colombo, December 22: Since the advent of the 13th Amendment (13A) to the constitution of Sri Lanka, 13A has been facing denunciations from...
by Yamini Mishra Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty International A cursory look at the human rights situation in South Asia can make one feel...
By Uditha Devapriya The financial crisis that swept through South Asia in early 2022 did not, to borrow an oft-quoted Sinhala witticism, fall from the sky....
Speech made November 22 I have consistently recorded my opposition to Minister of Finance being the President. From 2010 onwards in this House, whenever the President...