Excerpted from Sarath Amunugama’s autobiography The appointment of D.B. Wijetunga as Minister of Information and Broadcasting (in 1977) was a surprise. A senior member of the...
By Uditha Devapriya Sri Lanka is still living with the consequences of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidency, partly because his government has not left and partly because resistance...
By Sanja de Silva Jayatilleka At the informal consultations held on September 16, it is reported that the government had objected strongly to the Resolution now...
By Sanja De Silva Jayatilleka Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva last week said in no uncertain terms...
By Uditha Devapriya Ever since his election through parliament on July 20, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka’s President, has been busy consolidating his power. Two days after...
By Uditha Devapriya Sri Lanka’s economic woes have not cast a shadow over its complex foreign relations. On August 16, the southern port of Hambantota welcomed...
by Dayan Jayatilleka, PhD Watching Mikhail Gorbachev who died last week at the World Festival of Youth and Students in the Summer of 1985, I had...
By Uditha Devapriya “The context, cause and course of events on US House Speaker Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan are crystal clear. It is the US...
By Steve Rosenberg It’s March 2013 and I’m interviewing Mikhail Gorbachev at his Moscow think tank. After half an hour the former Soviet leader announces ‘Vsyo!’...
By Uditha Devapriya “The Harsha [de Silva] blueprint harshly rebukes the policies of many post-Independence administrations. It lightly pats on the back the liberalisation of 1977...