As Ramindu Perera has observed in a recent nuanced piece, the JVP’s response to India has always been historically conditioned, in much the same way that the UNP’s or the SLPP’s has been. Nevertheless ...

Since of late Sr Lankan Presidential Elections have become a battle ground with the number of candidates progressively growing. Last Presidential Election held on 16 th Nov 2019 fielded36 contestants ...

The question arises as to what reasons people may give for their choice of voting in any one of the main Presidential Candidates who have spent their entire political lifetime in the UNP/SJB and SLPP ...

Re-orienting the Sri Lankan economy toward the BRICS that is challenging the ‘exorbitant privileged’ of the US dollar as global reserve currency would be one such step. The US dollar has been long ...

In a few days’ time Sri Lankan people would have elected their most uncertain President. Through the prevailing socio-economic instabilities, Sajith Premadasa, Ranil Wickremesinghe or Anura Kumara ...

Today (14 Sept. 2024, both on the BBC and Al Jazeera) the Holy Father, Pope Francis, urged the faithful to vote for the less evil of the two major US presidential candidates who are “against life.” ...

Sri Lanka’s Presidential election campaign is in full swing with the nation preparing to elect its ninth Executive President. The airwaves are dominated by spirited debates on television, where ...

“A woman’s true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.” ~Joseph Conrad, Nostromo When expressed in terms of a portion of a whole, 56% is a majority, A ...

Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) has received 758 complaints concerning the misuse of public resources for election campaigning as of September 11, 2024. The largest category of ...

Silence And Choreographed Timidity at South Asian University: Interview of Sasanka Perera by Anushka Kahandagamage and Kaushalya Kumarasinghe. [Sri Lankan academic Sasanka Perera, left the South Asian ...