By Kassapa Now that United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has returned from Singapore after successful medical treatment, there is once again a buzz in UNP and Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) circles. The question on everyone’s lips is,...
By Vishvanath
Sri Lanka is battling the traditional New Year blues and limping back to normalcy after the Avurudu holidays merrymaking. The government may have timed the parliamentary debate on the Opposition’s no-faith motion against Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody over the coal...
By Kassapa
Consider this situation: a sitting Cabinet minister is indicted after months of speculation, protesting his innocence and after surviving a vote of no confidence in Parliament. He then has to resign. That was Keheliya Rambukwella two years...
By Vishvanath
A statement made by JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva at an event to commemorate the JVP members killed during the 1971 JVP uprising has caused quite a stir in political circles. Addressing a gathering of party members, on...
ByKassapa
As a political conman, Udaya Gammanpila ranks among the worst. His promise to ‘reveal’ the mastermind behind the 2019 Easter terror attacks turned out to be a massive anti-climax: he said it was Zahran Hashim, the leader of the...
By Kassapa
It is, in many ways, crunch time for the National Peoples’ Power (NPP) government. Elected on a platform of clean government and a host of promises based on the slogan ‘A Thriving Nation , A Beautiful Life’ (or...
By Vishvanath
Hardly anything could be more demeaning for a government that has come to power, promising to eliminate bribery and corruption and usher in good governance, than to be accused of corruption and shielding the corrupt. This has been...
By Vishvanath
The JVP-led NPP government finds itself in an unenviable position, struggling as it does to overcome a crippling energy shortage, with an economic crisis on the horizon. Not even the introduction of the QR-based fuel quota system has helped it get...
By Kassapa
The ongoing and escalating war between the United States and Israel on the one hand and Iran on the other thrust Sri Lanka right into the middle of the conflict even before we knew it, when two Iranian...
By Vishvanath
There seems to be no end in sight to the JVP-led government’s U-turns. Hardly any sphere remains where it has not made a policy about-turn, the latest being the introduction of the QR-based fuel rationing to manage the...
By kassapa
A few weeks ago, when President Anura Kumara Dissanayake used his good offices to convince Pakistan to send its cricket team to play India in Colombo in the T20 Cricket World Cup after they had initially refused...
The old left and the JVP become strange bedfellows
By Vishvanath
The first political marriage between the old left and the new left, represented by the JVP, occurred in 2004, when the then President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, turned her SLFP-led People’s...
