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
The Rajapaksas battening down the hatches
By Vishvanath
SLPP National Organizer Namal Rajapaksa’s entry into the presidential fray has triggered a social media feeding frenzy, which, however, will fizzle out with the...
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Impact of Sheikh Hasina’s ouster on South Asian
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 4: The ouster of the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by a student-led movement on August 5, has muddied South Asia’s...
Anatomy of the sick Maldivian economy
By .P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 2: Maldives in a financial mess and is looking out for bailouts from India and China. It’s foreign and domestic debt...
MIRROR WALL by KASSAPA
Ranil and Sajith- will the twain ever meet?
By Kassapa
With just over two weeks remaining of the presidential election campaign, the latest question is whether the United National Party (UNP) and its...
You too, Thalatha?
The resignation of Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) parliamentarian Thalatha Atukorale from Parliament is not the mere resignation of one MP, it deals a stinging...
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POLITICS By Vishvanath
Sajith pledges to undo what his father and JRJ did
By Vishvanath
This is the season of pledges. With the next presidential election fast approaching, the contenders for the presidency are making all kinds of...
Elephant dwarfed by Gas Cylinder; Hand fractured; House divided and Bell silenced
by Vishvanath
A billboard carrying a picture of a gas cylinder, which is President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s election symbol, has been erected on the frontage of UNP...
Leaps of expedience
By Vishvanath
What is unfolding on the political front in Sri Lanka is unprecedented. Never have so many MPs crossed over en masse either before or after...
Dramatic politics: FromCaucasian Chalk Circle to Hamlet
By Vishvanath
The Election Commission (EC) has at long last decided to hold the next presidential election on Sept. 21, 2024. It has thus ended...
Anatomy of an apology
By Vishvanath
What is happening in Sri Lankan politics is a textbook case of irony. The SLPP government, under President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s stewardship, is busy...
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
Implications of the lifting of ban on Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 29: On Wednesday, the Interim government of Bangladesh lifted the ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami on the plea that there was no...
Casting couch scandals rock Kerala film industry
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, August 28:
Even as middle class India was seething with anger over the brutal rape and murder of a female doctor in...
How India, and not China, is hidden on the ballot
N Sathiya Moorthy
27 August 2024
As if campaigning for incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe in the presidential poll that is only weeks away, a senior Central Bank...
What if Dhaka now seeks Hasina’s extradition under the bilateral treaty?
N Sathiya Moorthy If the Bangladesh government approaches New Delhi for extraditing Hasina and her sister, that too after following the due processes as known...
Indian and French parliamentary elections show striking similarities
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 9:
There are striking similarities between the outcomes of the recent Indian and French parliamentary elections. For one thing, in both,...
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...
