By Uditha Devapriya Lenin once remarked that there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. Much more than a decade passed last week...
Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA We are sitting on a massive, active, rumbling volcano which will explode soon. What we saw on May 9th was the first spewing...
by Uditha Devapriya “Churchill had only four members backing him in 1939. How did he become Prime Minister? Because of the crisis. I have done the...
Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA ‘Revolutionary Realpolitik’ is the title of the final chapter of the iconic philosopher and culture critic Georg Lukacs’ slim volume ‘Lenin: A Study...
Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Clearly the old ruling coalition, the SLPP and SLFP, has a majority in Parliament. That is similar to a man who has a...
By Uditha Devapriya For better or worse, the protesters calling for Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation have been engaging with other issues and concerns. These include minority rights,...
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has invited all parties to join an all-parties government. He will have few takers and those few takers will wreck...
by Uditha Devapriya What happens to a mass scale uprising when it loses its radical potential? It loses direction, focus, and the will to continue. The...
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA The Opposition has a very significant new grouping of veteran politicians. It is a breakaway from the Government and has four components: the...
by Capt. Elmo Jayawardena Now we all wonder what is going to happen. Sri Lanka looks like one over-sized jigsaw puzzle with some of the important...