It ended with a disgusting display of Arab opulence. It is disgusting not because of its financial magnitude and glitter but because of the circumstance in which it took place. A four hundred million ...

May 2024 marked the 15 th anniversary of the ending of the long Eelam War. Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardana presided over the annual ‘war-heroes’ commemoration. Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was ...

And then the scaremongering – if the NPP government were to fail and suffer defeat at the next election, will it pave the way for the return of the Rajapaksas, yet again, but this time under a new ...

Have the 16 years of war victory celebrations and suppression of commemoration of the war dead among the Tamil people helped achieve unity, reconciliation, and cohesion among diverse communities? How ...

By engaging in timely discussions with the relevant parties, the government can prevent escalation of conflicts into violence and chaos. And such a process will ensure that the promises made during ...

It is worth noting that in 2013, New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully, visited Sri Lanka, marking the first visit by a New Zealand Foreign Minister to the country. This visit ...

A planned but scurrilous campaign launched by a policy bankrupt and squabbling opposition, frightened already by AKD’s measures taken so far to end the seventy-six years old corrupt political culture ...

The local government elections, long delayed and much anticipated, are shaping up to be a landmark political event. These elections were originally due in 2023, but were postponed by the previous ...

“Ceylon”, the word rolls off the tongue nicely. It is an island of mountains, blessed to have monsoon rains in the course of entire year, densely ornamented with deodars in thick rain forests. It’s ...

Along with the political tsunami the opposition faced over the last two elections, it highlights the AKD/NPP Government’s total failure by pointing out that it has not fulfilled its election promises.

All public opinion surveys in Canada in the last three years indicated one thing. That was, the Liberals who were in power for three consecutive terms had overstayed their welcome and should recede to ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s 2025 May Day speech, delivered at the National People’s Power (NPP) rally, marked a significant milestone in Sri Lanka’s post-independence political journey.