COMIC STRIP BY WASANTHA SIRIWARDENA
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Battles lost and won at the grassroots level
By vishvanath
The outcome of last month’s local government (LG) polls has thrown up quite a few surprises and challenges for all political parties, especially...
CURRENT AFFAIRS
India finds itself out of sync at SCO
India found itself out of step at the two SCO conclaves held in China recently. And New Delhi’s effort to mend fences with Beijing...
How governments make enforced disappearances appear to be legal
Unwilling to manage dissent and challenges in a democratic manner, States of the Global South have resorted to enforced disappearances under legal cover.
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MIRROR WALL by KASSAPA
When the thieves go marching in – And fools rush in!
By Kassapa
If one were to ask the average voter of Sri Lanka why the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) won the presidential and general elections...
LG Polls: How the NPP missed the bus
By Kassapa
The local government elections were conducted almost two months ago but the dust refuses to settle on its results. Now, the ruling...
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POLITICS By Vishvanath
Rise in crime, ‘mini governments’ and executive presidency
By Vishvanath
An increase in underworld killings, which are reported almost daily, has caused much concern not only to the public but also to the...
Strange bedfellows in hung councils
By Vishvanath
The 2025 Local Government (LG) elections have thrown up quite a few surprises. Their outcome has made political parties and their leaders, given...
Hung council imbroglio and the prospect of PC polls
By Vishvanath
We are living in interesting times. The unfolding political drama at the grassroots level is full of twists and turns. The battle for...
Opposition targets foundation of NPP government
by Vishvanath
What made the NPP’s three electoral wins in a row possible was its successful propaganda drive, which effectively divided politicians and political parties...
People vote; money talks
by Vishvanath
The majority of local councils are still in an unholymess, without any party being able to muster working majorities in them, and political battles are...
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
Need to learn Chinese and understand Chinese culture to have fruitful ties with China.
By Shikha Pandey/Beijing Language and Culture University
Beijing, February 24 -In this increasingly integrated world, there is a need to know other cultures to have...
Damned, if AKD says ‘yes’ to the Tamils on the ethnic issue, damned, if...
N Sathiya Moorthy
Chennai 3 February 2025
Presidents before him may have visited the strife-torn Northern Province and political headquarters, Jaffna earlier than incumbent Anura Kumara...
Why has Lankan government cancelled Adanis’ Mannar wind power contract?
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 24: The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers chaired by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has revoked a decision made by his predecessor...
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...
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...
