People rush member of parliament K. Narayana Rao to a hospital after he suffered a heart attack during clashes in the lower house of parliament in New Delhi on Thursday. — AP

Parliamentary democracy in India came under severe threat …

[Sri Lanka has had elections since 1931.  We got ‘monitors’ only recently.  The need was produced by palpable election malpractices, many but not all eliminated by the introduction of new laws and adoption of fraud-resistant techniques.  With the need to …

India’s External Affairs Minister Salman Kurshid today urged the Sri Lankan leadership to look at “possible ways to avoid an hostile attitude towards people and countries that matter,” in the light of a likely US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at …

A disciplinary sanction which a court imposed against  New York based Pro LTTE Tamil terrorists attorney early last year has recently become hot news of the online news media. The attorney, Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, was admitted to the New York bar …

December 11, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “This Cant Be Happening” – When Barack Obama, the first black president of America, delivered remarks Tuesday during a South African memorial service for that country’s first black president, he …

February 11, 2014

Embassy of Sri Lanka
Washington DC
Press Release

THE 66^TH INDEPENDENCE DAY OF SRI LANKA
CELEBRATED WITH ELEGANCE  IN WASHINGTON DC

Sri Lanka expects genuine & meaningful support for reconciliation from international community  – Ambassador Wickramasuriya

Sri Lankan Cultural …

International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University
Annual Threat Assessment 
South Asia Sri Lanka

[In a parallel universe, of course]

I read somewhere that some cabinet ministers are peeved that I am in the habit of inviting heads of state institutions for chit-chat over coffee, tea, wine or whisky.  They are upset, I heard, …