If arguments of foreign-funded regime change holds true, the 100-day program appears a replica of similar programs introduced to nations under foreign tutelage by ‘experts’ offering slogans for ‘Democracy’ and ‘Good Governance’. These were the very slogans used in all …

By DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA

(Courtesy of The Island)

We have already had a bitter experience with Mr. Wigneswaran and we mustn’t repeat or compound it. Mr. Sampanthan is a cultured gentleman, a superb speaker and fine parliamentarian in the old …

(Courtesy oif Ceylon Today)

The United States has no genuine interest in accountability or reconciliation in Sri Lanka, but is seeking a strategic military base in Asia, says Tamara Manimekhalai Kunanayakam, onetime Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the …

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
The SLFP participation at the Ratnapura rally trumped the cooptation (‘National Government’) tactic of the SLFP Rightwing.  The anti-Mahinda tendency of the SLFP is now caught in the coils of its own contradictions. If it follows the …

(Courtesy of  The Island)
D. Chandrasiri Unawatuna
According to news item appearing in the island of March 13, 2015, the Northern Provincial Chief Minister, Mr. C. V. Wigneswaran has said that the time has come to move ahead of the …

(Courtesy of Sunday Times)

Almost a century ago — August 1920 to be precise, the United States of America passed the 19th Amendment to its Constitution. By this amendment, its Congress (Parliament) granted franchise – the vote, to adult women …

(By Courtesy of The Island March 24, 2015)

By Neville Ladduwahetty

The Island editorial of March 16, 2015 quotes Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran as having stated as follows during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Jaffna:

 “Thirteenth …

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Courtesy of The Island

Removal of security zones in the North – paving way to terrorism again

High Security Zones (HSZs) had been an integral part of the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) defences in the …

By Ranjith Soysa

(Courtesy of The Nation)

In 1987, the Indian Peace Keeping Force was deployed in Sri Lanka after signing the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Sri Lanka as expected ended up …

The post-independent period is a unique segment of Sri Lankan history where everything that ought to have happened, happened without breaking up the democratic foundations of the nation which is a  remarkable achievement.  In the main, the nation faced (1) …