The momentous event of the week-ended-today was the presentation of Budget 2024 by the President in his capacity as the Minister of Finance. Usually, Sri Lankan...
by Dr Nihal Jayawickrama The message of the 2022 “Aragalaya”, which drove a President and a Prime Minister and other members of that political family out...
The week that passed saw considerable political activity related to the forthcoming presidential election that must be held late next year in accordance with the constitution....
By Ven. Siri Vajiraramaye Nanasiha The book ‘Footnotes of a Protest’ – A Response in Verse by Tennekoon, EM was handed to me by a close...
The net result was the recalibration of capitalist rule in Sri Lanka, which was threatened with anarchism. The new class alignment was consummated with departure of...
Text of the speech delivered by Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda at the launch of the book, Democracy and Democratization in Sri Lanka: Paths, Trends and imaginations, September...
REAR VISION By Jayantha Somasundaram The Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) founded in 1935 contested the following year’s State Council election and returned two out of...
Carefully listening to the current party-political discourses from various rallies, broadcasts, pod castes and YouTube interviews, one can easily discern how much the famously unique Aragalaya has influenced...
We Lankans are famous (or should we say notorious?) for frequently talking like the proverbial fisherman boasting about “the one that got away.” In our case...
by Dr Upul Wijayawardhana It is becoming increasingly clear that some ambassadors, assuming themselves to be the new viceroys, are undermining Sri Lanka’s sovereignty. It is...