The Lankan parliament took a back seat on matters connected to public finance for years
By P.K.Balachandran
The leader of the opposition United National Party (UNP) and former Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, told parliament on Friday that the House...
“Let’s put ancient feuds in the past”, says an edit in the Canadian daily Toronto Sun
There’s an adage about one man’s terrorist being another man’s freedom fighter. The problem for a third-party country caught in the middle is figuring...
Colombo, October 9: India is at the cross-roads. Its external and internal environments are being shaped by “tectonic shifts”. The changing scenario calls for fresh thinking. But any policy changes must be within a normative and historically validated framework,...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 8: A long and determined effort by the political parties of the Tamil-speaking communities in Sri Lanka to jointly write to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his good offices to persuade Colombo to address...
Colombo, August 7: The Sri Lankan Supreme Court has issued an interim order suspending the operation of the Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01 of 2021, which was published as a gazette...
By P.K.Balachandran
It comes as no surprise that liberals, leftists and Muslims in America have been demonstrating against Israel’s bid to de-populate Gaza under the guise of hunting down Hamas. But what has come as a surprise is that a...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s address to the nation over television on Monday is likely to bring political tempers down and motivate political parties in parliament to sink their differences and cooperate with the legitimately established government to...
By P.K.Balachandran
The Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka, extremely hard-pressed though it economically and politically, might still survive thanks to disunity among the Opposition parties and the massive infusion of financial and material aid to the country from abroad. The...
The International Mother Language Day, which is celebrated annually on February 21, is of critical importance. History and research tell us that the mother tongue has social, political, cultural and educational dimensions, which the world can ill afford to...
In a March 28 tweet, Assange’s partner Stella Moris said that “after a hard night, Julian woke up this morning to a kind, personal message from Pope Francis @pontifex delivered to his cell door by the prison priest.”
“Our family...
Colombo, February 13: Fathima Fahmida Rameez, a teacher in the State-run Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in the Eastern Sri Lankan district of Trinomalee, has not been allowed to resume work wearing the Abaya (a loose garment covering the...
The April 6 Tamil Nadu State Assembly elections could have been the immediate reason
Will it further strain Indo-Lanka relations
The alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka against the Tamil minority is a key issue electoral issue...
