By Uditha Devapriya In 1977 J. R. Jayewardene came to power promising a weekly eta ata or eight kilos of grain. Perceived, rather unfairly perhaps, as...
by DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA The simplest way to understand the crisis that Sri Lanka finds itself in is to understand it as if this country were...
By Uditha Devapriya Sri Lanka’s problems long predate the arrival of the Rajapaksas. Widely touted as an export-dependent economy, its reliance on imports of everything, from...
By Binoy Kampmark When it comes to the tawdry, hideous business of politicising the right to asylum, and the refugees who arise from it, no country...
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Will the SLPP (‘Pohottuwa’) have a political future, or will it wind up like the LSSP-CPSL of 1977, the SLFP of 1977 or...
By Uditha Devapriya On June 2, the Commercial High Court of Colombo issued an enjoining order against Flight SU-289 over a lease matter, preventing it from...
By Uditha Devapriya The world will not help Sri Lanka unless the Sri Lankan government restores some measure of stability. The world does not care who...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma In yet another cynical exhibition of its contempt for gun control regulations, the National Rifle Association proceeded with its scheduled 2022 annual convention...
by Gnana Moonesinghe At long last the nation has a new prime minister who has a unique record of having been PM of the country five...
By Uditha Devapriya I distinctly remember one day in January 2020 when I felt I had everything I could want. I couldn’t explain the feeling; it...