COMIC STRIP BY WASANTHA SIRIWARDENA
COUNTER POINT VIDEOS
How Banning Most Chinese Cotton Has Shifted Global Supply Chains | WSJ U.S. vs. China
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COVER STORIES
Ramifications of the Ranwala Riddle
By Kassapa
The partially resolved riddle regarding to former Speaker Ashoka Ranwala’s doctorate was a rude eye-opener to the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) government. The...
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Trump trumpets US territorial ambitions
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 15: US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened Canada that it could be incorporated in the USA as the 51 st. State,...
Fallout of Trudeau’s exit from Canadian Premiership
Trudeau with Modi
MIRROR WALL by KASSAPA
A government working for the opposition and an opposition working for the government!
by Kassapa
When Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President, many mocked him saying that he was the first ever President to be elected to office...
Is it the end of the road for the SJB?
By Kassapa
The corridors of power in the opposition are buzzing with the same news: is the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) about to...
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POLITICS By Vishvanath
Dialectical tensions and the question of alternatives
by Vishvanath
Oppositional forces are showing signs of gaining ground as the ruling JVP-led NPP is learning to navigate governance issues the hard way. The...
Declaration of LG polls runs into legal snag
By Vishvanath
A legal snag has stood in the way of the declaration of the local government (LG) elections, according to media reports, quoting the...
Things not so rosy for the Maroon party?
by Vishvanath
Sri Lanka is never short of issues, which range from frivolous to the serious, touching on everything from celebrity gossip to national security...
National List: Political leaders playing with fire
By Vishvanath
An argument is being peddled in some quarters that the general secretaries of political parties have discretionary powers to appoint anyone of their choice to...
Govt. firmly in saddle; Opposition dilly-dallies
Nationalistic forces clawing their way up
by Vishvanath
The JVP-led NPP government has chosen to tread cautiously although it was expected to get off to a...
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
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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
Chinmoy Das and a Tragic Community
Swadesh Roy
The lower court has denied bail to Chinmoy Kumar Das (Chinmoy Prabhu). According to the prosecution, the case does not qualify for bail....
What Modi 3.0 can expect from Trump 2.0
N Sathiya Moorthy 11 November 2024
Call him ‘Lady-killer’ of a different kind, but US President-elect Donald Trump holds the distinction of being the only one...
Why does Canada want to restrict immigration?
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, October 25: The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on October 23, that Canada will “significantly” reduce the number of new immigrants....
Starlink’s tie up with US armed forces worries security experts
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, October 20: Experts have warned countries about the security risks associated with the Starlink satellite-based internet service given its close links with...
Maldives’ Buddhist past calls for greater exploration and preservation
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 18: The Maldives is a 100% Muslim country. But Buddhism was the dominant religion here for more than 1,000 years before...
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...
