By Kassapa.
The unthinkable has happened. Shammi Silva, seemingly President of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) for life, has been dismissed. What’s more, he wasn’t ousted in a bitter legal battle or summarily sacked, he resigned.
An interim ‘Cricket Transformation Committee’ (CTC)...
By Kassapa
The cornerstone of the National Peoples’ Power (NPP) election campaigns, both for the presidential and general elections in 2024 was clean and transparent government. Yes, they did promise to restructure the economy but the masses didn’t vote...
By Kassapa
Kumara Jayakody has resigned as Energy Minister in the National Peoples’ Power (NPP) government. It is the first resignation of a minister in this government. Has it had the desired impact? Emphatically, no, it has not. In fact,...
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 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...
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 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...
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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...
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The arrest of Major General Suresh Sallay, the former Director of the State Intelligence Service had political circles buzzing last week. While the government chose to say as little as possible, many opposition politicians went out on...
Mirror wall by Kassapa
Last week, we wrote in these columns about how Sinhala Buddhist nationalism was being used as a tool by the ‘usual suspects’, the Rajapaksa school of politics, to try and capture the imagination of the majority...
By Kassapa
The clamour for Sinhala Buddhist majoritarianism is a slogan, a rallying call, almost as old as Sri Lanka’s post-independence history. The person who used it first with immediate success was S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, seventy years ago in 1956. That...
