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The deep state in Pakistan is no more a mere conglomerate of civil bureaucracy, army, intelligence, and/or other administrative agencies. The ‘state within the state’ has also its predictable partners in religious constituencies across the country. There is a...
Sri Lanka’s ‘India First’ strategic security policy, outlined by the new Foreign Secretary, Adm Jayanth Colombage (retd), is a timely reiteration of a policy of past 20-plus years, but seldom understood and appreciated as such in the northern neighbourhood....
Ceylon Today 18 August 2020
Chased by the Police, four robbers entrust their night’s loot to an old lady, with the instruction that she should return it only if all four of them came together.
A week later, one of them...
My childhood memories of a broken Buddha sculpture spawned a bewildering array of questions—long before I came to know about the greatness of the apostle of Ahimsa. We were told that the sculpture, made of...
A recent agitation by 30-odd trade unions, big and small and also all the employees of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), calling upon the government to rescind the tripartite memorandum with India and Japan, to develop Colombo Port’s...
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has again a wrong ball in his hand which will surely hit headlines with fiddly pay-offs. The news that the mastermind of the 9/11 terror operations, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has become...
India has done well with its neighbours by not giving up on them in their own hour of crisis. Even while the nation was faced with exigencies of every kind, New Delhi has repeatedly despatched COVID19-related medical assistance individual...
The regional entity in South Asia—South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)—seems to have a new lease of life with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, taking an unexpected initiative to have a Conference of the leaders of...
Going by media reports, no positive movement seems
to have emanated at the Gota-Modi talks at New Delhi in the Sri Lankan
President’s maiden overseas visit after his convincing electoral victory back
home. It was the first meeting between the two leaders,...
We like our anniversaries in blocks of 50 or 100 – at a push we’ll tolerate a 25. The 100th anniversary of the Somme (2016), the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (2015). Next year, we’ll remember the...
