By Kassapa
When the results of the November 2024 general election emerged, it became apparent that the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) had secured a stunning victory, virtually wiping out the parliamentary opposition. Since then, the opposition has been sniping...
By kassapa
Sri Lankans were left shell-shocked late last week as Cyclone Ditwah battered the country as a cyclone had never before, inundating parts of all twenty-five districts, taking the lives of over 450 persons and rendering almost half...
By Kassapa
It is the week after the much awaited ‘Maha Jana Handa’ or the ‘Great Voice of the People’ rally in Nugegoda organised by the so-called ‘joint’ opposition, albeit sans the major opposition party in the country, the Samagi...
This column, written on the eve of the so-called joint opposition rally at Nugegoda ambitiously titled the ‘Maha Jana Handa’ or ‘Great Voice of the People’, have no confirmation as to what will be said and done at the...
By Kassapa Preoccupied with the Budget, there was hardly any fanfare to celebrate the government’s first year in office. Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential poll in September last year but it was on November 14 that the Jathika...
By kassapa
Last week saw the launch of ‘Ratama Ekata’, or a ‘Nation United’, the government’s battle against the narcotics menace, spearheaded by none other than President Anura Kumara Dissanayake himself. Present at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium were a galaxy...
The so-called latest version of the ‘Joint Opposition’ held a media briefing last week to herald their second coming, a rally at Nugegoda on November 21, styled the ‘Mahaa Jana Handa’ or the ‘Great Voice of the People’. The...
By Kassapa
One of the key pledges of the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) government, better known by its English acronym NPP, was to restore law and order in the country, undertaking that no one would be above the law. One...
By Kassapa
The tussle between Ranil Wickremesinghe and Sajith Premadasa for the leadership of the right-of-centre niche in the political landscape has been a familiar contest in Sri Lankan politics for the past one and a half decades
For a while,...
By kassapa
Last week, there was an exciting headline almost every other day. First, it was the news that Aruna Vidanagamage, better known as ‘Kajja’ had been identified in the vicinity of where ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen was murdered in 2012....
By Kassapa
Just when you thought it was safe to watch the news, Sunil Handuneththi has done it again, this time with a blunder of epic proportions, claiming that a Sri Lankan brand of tea has won the Nobel Prize.
A...
By Kassapa
The much-hyped 79th convention of the United National Party (UNP) was held last week with almost all political parties except the ruling Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) in attendance. It was intended to herald party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s resurrection, but...
