COMIC STRIP BY WASANTHA SIRIWARDENA
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COVER STORIES
A close contest with a difference
By Vishvanath
Sri Lanka goes to the polls on Saturday (21) to elect the ninth Executive President. All presidential elections are important, but tomorrow’s one...
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Can India make Lakshadweep islands compete with Maldives?
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, October 11: With the Maldives badly needing foreign exchange to meet its basic needs, President Mohamed Muizzu is bending over backwards to...
Indian Dalit leader Ambedkar explains mass conversion to Buddhism
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, October 9: Thousands of people assemble at Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur in the Western Indian State of Maharashtra on October 14 every year to pay...
MIRROR WALL by KASSAPA
Wanted Urgently: an effective Opposition
Cover Story
By Kassapa
Nominations for the November 14 general election closed this week but the results of the poll are now a foregone conclusion. The...
Let the political games begin!
The people have spoken. In a historic verdict, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected as the ninth Executive President of Sri Lanka. The results, declared...
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POLITICS By Vishvanath
Rhetoric, gimmicks, accolades and unnerving challenges
By Vishvanath
History and politics are partial to winners. So is the media. It is therefore natural that the newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake...
Back-to-back polls, campaign fatigue and shifting dynamics
By Vishvanath
Sri Lanka has had to get ready for a general election even before the dust has settled on the political front after a...
Head-scratching after a crucial poll
By Vishvanath
The recently concluded presidential poll brought a protracted drought of elections to an end. The next parliamentary election is expected soon. The outcome...
Crowd sizes and ground reality
By Vishvanath
Social media platforms are awash with news about crowds of varying sizes at political rallies. The leading presidential candidates boast of their well-attended...
A deluge of polls after an electoral drought
By Vishvanath
The prolonged electoral drought Sri Lanka has experiencedsince the last general election (2020) is coming to an end with the prospect of what may be called a deluge...
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
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...
Strategic importance of Bay of Bengal, St.Martin’s and Andamans
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 14: Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had alleged that the US would not have schemed to oust her from power...
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...
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...
