King Pandukabaya ended the reign of Ravana under whose rule inclusiveness of all in governance was almost unthinkable.
The IMF loan will not resolve Sri Lanka’s economic crisis. It will only bail the country out in its efforts to come out of the crisis. Of foremost need is to restructure the debts, without which Sri Lanka cannot do anything else.
‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he, today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.’ – William Shakespeare
A telephone conversation between SJB MP Buddhika Pathirana and Adarsha Karandana, the woman involved in the Ashu Marasinghe incident, is now public knowledge.
UN Secretary General’s (UNSG) Annual Report - 2022 on the work of UN organisations has “Blacklisted” a large group of member nations for retaliating against human rights defenders. Sri Lanka is one among those blacklisted member countries.
Justice delayed is Justice denied and that’s more so in the case when the affected are war-affected Tamils. In the case of those affected by the brutal Mylanthanai massacre in eastern Sri Lanka, both happened.
Sri Lanka’s external relations are a part of its history, often replete with myth and legend as well. Foreign relations of Sri Lanka in the modern era are mostly a function of post-independence developments in the country.
You can only have a foreign exchange shortage if you're trying to fix the price of that foreign exchange. A government that doesn't know this … well, perhaps we shouldn't be all that surprised that they're also having problems with debt.
Sri Lanka’s president has named a veteran anti-Muslim agitator to head a legal reform task force. Critics have called the move “incomprehensible”, but it is readily understood as a way to divert discontent among the government’s Sinhala Buddhist base toward an embattled minority.
