COMIC STRIP BY WASANTHA SIRIWARDENA
COUNTER POINT VIDEOS
COVER STORIES
Opposition out for Speaker’s scalp
By Visvanath
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena finds himself in an unenviable position. The Opposition’s no-faith motion against him will have to be taken up for...
CURRENT AFFAIRS
France and Germany meet halfway on military aid to Ukraine
France’s aggressive opposition to Russia now balanced with Germany’s caution
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 15: For some time now, French President Emmanuel Macron had been...
Should Sleeping Dogs Lie?
N Sathiya Moorthy
12 March 2024
The most disconcerting aspect of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s book, ‘The Conspiracy to Oust Me’, released recently, is not about...
MIRROR WALL by KASSAPA
Basil is back, but does it really matter?
By Kassapa
Amidst great publicity and fanfare, Basil Rajapaksa, founder of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), its chief political strategist and also failed Finance...
‘An opposition the country does not deserve’
By Kassapa
Every country, it is said, gets the government it deserves. In addition, Sri Lanka appears to have the misfortune of getting an opposition...
POLITICS By Vishvanath
SLPP-UNP alliance reaches a crossroads
By Vishvanath
Chief Strategist of the SLPP, Basil Rajapaksa, has returned from the US and started pulling the strings around as if to the manner...
Can Basil put Humpty together?
By Visvanath
The SLPP had a meteoric rise in national politics and captured state power three years after its formation in 2016, but it failed...
Hullabaloo over AKD’s India visit
by Vishvanath
Sri Lankan politics may be divisive and obnoxious, but it is always exciting nonetheless; it is full of dramatic twists and turns. Political...
Rifts and splits ahead of polls
By Vishvanath
Group dynamics could be problematic. They have the potential to impact the unity of any organization adversely, be it social, political, economic or...
President’s report card and backhanded compliment to JVP
By Vishvanath
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is using everything at his disposal to gain maximum possible political mileage and increase the momentum of his presidential election...
STATECRAFT
The return of the university bogeyman
• Country heading towards darkness amidst energy stakeholders tug of war
A modified version of Pastor Martin Niemoller’s indictment of the passivity and indifference of...
Rescind detention orders: BASL
Torture and inhuman treatment a risk under the PTA
The arrest last week of Wasantha Mudalige, Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation, set...
Ranil attempts to legitimize government with an all -party approach
• Condemnation for GGG attack exceed congratulations
• President makes Sri Lanka a human rights pariah
John F Kennedy once said that those who make revolution...
Hunting the hunter
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the failed president
The need for a president who will bring back the 19th A and abolish the executive presidency
Ranil’s political swan...
Belling the cat in a crony power plant deal
The revelations about an alleged power plant deal at the highest echelons of government involving the heads of state of Sri Lanka and India...
Ying & Yang
When Microfinancing Drives Borrowers to Despair
For those struggling to make ends meet, particularly the rural poor, microfinancing is seen as a God send. Unable to obtain credit facilities through...
Equal Opportunities a Must for Everyone
Photo courtesy- friendsofnavajeevana.org
While she told the audience gathered at the Shangri-La hotel, that evening of March 8th, that ensuring peace and harmony for all...
Cardinal’s Crusade for Truth, won’t make him a Darling of the Administration
Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith does not seem to be a happy man these days.
Well, he couldn’t, could he, when he finds himself between a rock...
COVID-19 Vaccinations: Mixed Signals and Mixed Priorities
Confusion and miscommunication seems to be becoming the hallmark of this government.
Just like the many other instances where gazettes are issued, then cancelled, prices...
Wake Up! It’s time for Gender Parity not Patriarchy
In filing a Fundamental Rights petition against the appointment of a woman officer to the post of Acting Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG),...
IN PERSPECTIVE
After L’dweep, can China help Muizzu in domestic politics?
Many Maldivians have families, homes, businesses and jobs in neighbouring Sri Lanka, and they were closely watching the economic melt-down in that country, circa...
How INDIA Can Counter Modi’s Popularity
N Sathiya Moorthy Chennai
11 January 2024
What the INDIA alliance needs is neither a counter to Modi's tall personality and undiminished charisma nor a counter-narrative to...
If 13-A is good, Mr President do it now, why and how!
N Sathiya Moorthy
Colombo Gazette 9 January 2024
In northern Jaffna ahead of the annual Tamil harvest festival of ‘Thai Pongal’, President Ranil Wickremesinghe promised the full...
After Muizzu suspends ministers India must hold its horses
N Sathiya Moorthy
South Asia 8 January 2024
Maldives President Mohammed Muizzu has suspended three ministers for mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media after a...
Can Stalin Repeat 2019
Lok Sabha Result In 2024?
By N Sathiya Moorthy
5 January 2024
In what should pass for irony of the coming Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched...
POINT OF VIEW
85% of Indians surveyed by Pew Research Centre backed authoritarianism
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 14: A recent survey done by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre (PRC) shows that democracy had suffered a decline globally between...
Citizenship Amendment Act may sour India’s relations with Bangladesh
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 13
The March 11 notification on the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 (CAA) has already triggered an agitation in...
Russian economy has grown despite sanctions, study reveals
It is not Russia but Ukraine which is in dire straits despite massive US arms aid
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 9:
Of the two countries that...
Myanmar descends into chaos
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, February 21
As Myanmar descends into chaos, mega Indian and Chinese projects are getting stuck, dogged by security issues.
The writ of the military...
Tamil Nadu Governor’s continuous hostility to DMK government is worrying
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, February 15: Desperate to capture the elusive South Indian States, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that dominates the Centre like a colossus,...
Law & the Layman
Another humiliating U-turn ahead for govt
The government is punching above its weight on the economic front, mustering as it does enough votes in the parliament to secure the passage...
Is advertising blitz in social media tabooed for lawyers?
The topic of soliciting and touting in the legal profession is a subject of discussion that invited much attention in recent times, especially on...
BASL Elections -Meaningful or Necessary?
The fever and dust has settled on another election to the office of President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka for the year...
Do we need Presidential Commissions?
Sri Lankan law broadly allows for two distinct types of commissions of inquiry to be appointed by the President. The first are commissions of...
Power to grant bail vested with judges should be exercised liberally-Court of Appeal
“It is my view that on account of the unusual and extraordinary delay in lodging the first complaint despite every ability to do so...