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...
In a departure from the past, the Rajapaksa leadership has kept its options yet open on the UNHRC resolution that would be taken up for vote in the upcoming session, commencing this month and going past mid-next. Going by...
News reports have quoted the Chinese Embassy in Colombo about Sri Lanka participating in a China-hosted five-Nation multilateral virtual meet on COVID-19 management and post COVID-19 economic revival. It was the second such consultation among the ‘partners’ in...
In his address to the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has expressed his readiness to engage all domestic stake-holders, international partners and the UN for post-war reconciliation, which is already a decade old....
In a recent debate in Parliament, State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal joined issue with the Opposition over fiscal management between the two Rajapaksa regimes, the incumbent and the previous one (2005-15) and the intervening Government of National Unity (GNU),...
Now that the dust has settled on the UNHRC 46/1 vote, it is time the Nation sat up and took stock. It is one thing for the government leaders of the day to wear their relative success on their...
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...
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...
As always, India-baiters in Sri Lanka’s strategic community and foreign policy commentators, missed the real significance of last week’s visit of External Affairs Minister
S. Jaishankar from the northern neighbourhood – still harping on Cold War era diatribes which have...
Irony but true. It takes only a week or even less to make a strong government with a two-thirds majority in Parliament, look weak, unsteady and unstable. It takes even less time to sow seeds of confusion, if not...
