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By Malinda Senevirathna In these Narendra Modi days, we once again have fear-mongering devolutionists trying to make a fast political buck at the man’s expense.  There’s reference to promises made and talk of Modi making sure that they will be..

By Shamindra Ferdinando (Courtesy of The island) Had the Tamil Nadu administration effectively implemented the ban on the LTTE, eelam war IV (August 2006 – May 2009) would not have lasted nearly three years. In spite of the ban imposed..

AP UNIPOLAR TO MULTIPLEX: Encouraging institutions like G20 would lead to stability of the multiplex world. Picture shows U.S. President Barack Obama at the G20 summit in South Korea in 2010. Domestic critics in America blame the Russian annexation of..

An Apology to Sri Lanka for crimes against humanity committed by the Portuguese Conquistadors who were exclusively Roman Catholics, during their presence in this country from 1505 – 1658, should be the overriding reason for any future visit by a..

President Mahinda Rajapaksa did not invite seemingly estranged leaders of coalition partners such as Champika Ranawaka and Wimal Weerawansa to accompany him to the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He did not invite his Prime..

By Susantha Goonatilake (Courtesy of Daily News) The USA had refused to give Modi a visa. And after Modi’s victory, Obama changed his colours and invited Modi to visit the US. It was like “kissing the hand that cannot be..

By Bandu de Silva Commentaries which have appeared in the Sri Lankan media so far on the future policies that India under Modi government might follow have to be considered more speculative than analytical. There is a good reason for..

By Milinda Senevirathna Narendra Modi is not just India’s new Prime Minister.  He’s also the latest gonibilla conjured by Indophiles, Eelamists, federalists and other fellow-travelers.  The ‘Specter of Modi’ is a good topic to write on, notwithstanding the fact that gonibilla-conjurers, given their..

Cabinet Ministers of Sri Lanka have no business to go off on a tangent expressing their rejected and defunct ideologies through Ministries they enjoy at the expense of the taxpaying public and based purely on compassionate grounds of the head..

By  Prof. Nalin de Silva (Courtesy of Daily news) I was not surprised when the High Commissioner for Canada in Sri Lanka said that Canada would boycott the victory celebrations in Matara. According to the President it was a victory..