By Kassapa
This week, Sri Lanka will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is on a three-day state visit. Modi has been in office since 2014 having won three consecutive general elections. This is his fourth visit to the...
By kassapa
The local government elections, now scheduled by the Elections Commission for May 6, has been a long time coming. The polls were originally scheduled for March 9, 2023. Then President Ranil Wickremesinghe postponed the election citing a lack...
By kassapa
If ever there was a case of any publicity not being good publicity, it was former President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s interview with the Al Jazeera television network where he seems to have opened a veritable can of worms vis-à-vis...
By Kassapa
There was a time, during the presidencies of Chandrika Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapaksa when Ranil Wickremesinghe was mocked mercilessly for his mannerism in public speaking. This strategy had its impact which is why Wickremesinghe was not able to...
By Kassapa
The comical spectacle of officers of the Sri Lanka Police force launching a manhunt to nab its Inspector General of Police (IGP), albeit suspended, unfolded this week. This was after the Matara Magistrate’s Court issued an order for...
By Kassapa
If the events at Court No.5 on February 19 were scripted by a Hollywood thriller writer, he could not have done a better job. It had a movie-like quality. The killer entered the complex in a lawyer’s...
Last week, we gave the benefit of the doubt to Attorney General (AG) Parinda Ranasinghe (Jnr.) regarding his actions (or more accurately, inaction) in prosecuting the murders of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge. This was after Ranasinghe’s directive to...
The drama regarding the prosecution of suspects over the murder of former Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge hit the headlines last week when Attorney General (AG) Parinda Ranasinghe (Jnr.) sent a letter to the Criminal Investigations Department saying the...
By Kassapa
In the lead up to the recent presidential election campaign, Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa was lampooned as being ‘aasayi, bayayi’ or being eager but scared. This originated from his refusal to accept the Premiership from Gotabaya Rajapaksa...
By kassapa
Time was when the ‘Rajapaksa’ name the most marketable brand in Sri Lankan politics. That was after Mahinda Rajapaksa provided the political leadership to successfully defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009. Being the smart...
By Kassapa
The corridors of power are buzzing with the news of talks between the two so-called main ‘right-of-centre’ political parties, the United National Party (UNP) and the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB), to explore the prospect of reconciliation.
At the time...
by Kassapa
When Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President, many mocked him saying that he was the first ever President to be elected to office with a ‘minority’ of votes, not having secured 50 per cent of the ballots cast....
