A joint political effort at the highest level between Delhi and Chennai, combined with community education and awareness about cultural sensitivities, may be the solution to resolving this perennial dispute that has strained bilateral relations between India and Sri...
Guess, what was/is unique to communism in Sri Lanka? When left politics elsewhere merrily adopted the unwritten code of ‘atheism’ written into their very being at the very beginning, here alone it’s different. So, is the question of ‘nationalism’...
Ceylon Today 11 August 2024
Sri Lankans can pat themselves on the pat, though quietly or only in their minds. Decorum demands that any loud expression of self-appreciation over the Aragalaya setting the precedent for Bangladesh to follow in the shared...
The series of protests that political parties and public servants have threatened over the coming days, weeks and months has the potential of making Sri Lanka into a virtually ungoverned nation into an ungovernable country. In turn, this can...
Ceylon Today 30 December 2022
If one were to write the customary ‘Year That Was’ as circa 2022 draws to a close, it should be titled, as it is: “The Year That Should Not Have Been”. Yes, this is one...
While leaving for Geneva to head the government delegation at the UNHRC session beginning this week, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has reiterated the Sri Lankan State position that it would not accept an ‘international probe’ into war-crimes, as dictated...
Anoli Perera (Sri Lanka), Dream 1, 2017
On 9 July 2022, remarkable images floated across social media from Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital. Thousands of people rushed into the presidential palace and chased out former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, forcing him to...
The Ranil government being seen as wishy-washy over the Chinese ship’s Hambantota visit, it remains to be seen how much more India would be enthused to rush aid and assistance with the same amount of enthusiasm as through the...
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Intervening in parliamentary debate on a government-initiated amendment to the Electricity Act, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that India was the only ‘country that is giving us money for fuel’, and he would not be able to ask New Delhi...
