Friday 9th May, 2025 The battle’s lost and won, but the hurly-burly is not yet done, one might say about the post-election blues in Sri Lanka—with...
Thursday 8th May, 2025 Sri Lankans have spoken, and what they have said is being interpreted in different ways. That the ruling NPP would be the...
Wednesday 7th May, 2025 Smearing opponents has become the dominant form of electioneering in Sri Lanka. All political parties unflinchingly resort to mud-slinging during election campaigns,...
Tuesday 6th May, 2025 Elections to 339 local government (LG) institutions are set to take place today––at long last. The terms of the local councils, which...
Monday 5th May, 2025 The Election Commission (EC) has said that everything is ready for tomorrow’s local government (LG) polls. However, a trade union representing the...
It is said that in times war laws fall silent. In Sri Lanka, this much-quoted Ciceronian aphorism seems to hold true even in peacetime when politicians...
Saturday 3rd May, 2025 The JVP-led NPP government is quite upbeat about its massive May Day rally, which was intended to give a mega boost to...
Friday 2nd May, 2025 Another May Day is over. Sri Lankan workers were treated to a mega political circus yesterday. They may have been thoroughly entertained,...
Thursday 1st May, 2025 The International Workers’ Day falls today, and Sri Lanka is ready to mark it on a grand scale. However, May Day celebrations...
Wednesday 30th April, 2025 Two erstwhile strange bedfellows—the UNP and the JVP—are at each other’s jugular. Following the 2015 regime change, they embarked on the UNP-led...