By Uditha Devapriya Victory may have many fathers, but defeat isn’t always an orphan. Just 24 hours after Donald Trump was declared as the 47th President...
by Tisaranee Gunasekara “The future is cloth waiting to be cut.” Seamus Heaney (The Burial at Thebes) The point had been made often enough. Without a...
By Uditha Devapriya It has been a month since Anura Kumara Dissanayake assumed the presidency, a month since the NPP claimed its place in history as...
Democracy under threat, as Trump sows doubt on election integrity by Vijaya Chandrasoma President Ronald Reagan, “The Great Communicator” was famous for conceptualizing the American Dream,...
Motion of No Confidence in Government (Hansard of 1st September 1, 1953) (Speech made by Dr. NM Perera published in his birth centenary memorial volume) Dr....
(Excerpted from Render Unto Caesar by Bradman Weerakoon, Secretary to the Prime Minister) Yet, as was to happen over and over again in the country’s politics,...
by Kadira Pethiyagoda Sri Lanka’s application for BRICS membership may be an early indication of President Dissanayake’s long-term vision. It signals shrewdness on the international stage....
“A few days later, at a public lunch, when I was congratulated on my escape by a speaker in these words, “Blessed are the Peace-makers for...
by Dr. Upatissa Pethiyagoda We are convinced (or conditioned to believe,) that we are an under-developed country and are destined to ever remain so. Should it...
by Kamaya Jayatissa [Foreword excerpted from ‘Interventions: Selected Political Writings’, by Dayan Jayatilleka] ‘The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so...