Not everyone can or wants to enter politics. Not everyone can or wants to be a politician. There have been plenty of women in politics some making a global name for themselves like Sirimavo Bandaranaike and they did so without …

By Malinda Seneviratne

Constitutions are not always made with good intention. Even when the intention is good the unexpected trumps the word. They are supposed to be documents of the ‘forever’ kind, but if one thing is certain it is …

(Courtesy of Daily News)

Colonel Olcott was an inspiring servant of mankind. He lived in our age and dedicated the later years of his life to Buddhism and the peoples of Asia particularly those of India and Sri Lanka. He …

Vociferous to Silent:

Does the international community’s silence during the rule of Yahapalanya mean Sri Lanka is finally on the ‘right’ path, or that we’re finally doing what we’re told to do.

From 2009 to 2014, Sri Lanka was so …

Mahinda Rajapaksa, after losing the Presidential Election, making his now infamous from-the-window speech, blamed it ‘on the Tamils’. It was a crass, knee-jerk conclusion which was racist and a complete disavowal of his own and significant flaws. He has since …

(Amended excerpts From the “Sunday Times” Political Column of February 11th 2018)

Just this week, a completely unrelated incident was to highlight the sharp and heightening divisions within Sirisena’s coalition. It came after Britain’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka James …

(Courtesy of The Island)

Co-conveners of Purawesi Balaya, Gamini Viyangoda, K.W. Janaranjana and Saman Ratnapriya yesterday claimed that the outfit had received firm assurances from President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday (Feb. 12) that they wouldn’t …

ccording to the UK Terrorism Act of 2000 it is a crime to wear or carry any item portraying reasonable suspicion of support to a proscribed organization. In 2001, UK proscribed LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization together with 45 …

The best way to predict the future is to create it – Abraham Lincoln

 By Shenali D Waduge

10^th February 2018 will go down in history as a watershed moment in Sri Lankan politics. It beat previous startling …

(Courtesy of FT)

Last year, 2017, the Government and Opposition separately commemorated the centenary of the Russian revolution – actually of twin revolutions, liberal and socialist, of February and October, 1917. In an interesting twist, the result of the Sri …