Often, the downfall of governments come from within and not from their opponents. Sri Lankan political history is littered with such examples.
In the ‘50s, S.W.R. D. Bandaranaike broke away from the United National Party (UNP) and formed the Sri...
Does the government know whether it is coming or going? Or is it following the old adage, ‘those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make them mad’?
That is the question on the minds of many after the...
This should have been a time for celebration. Friday marks the second anniversary of Gotabaya Rajapaksa assuming office as the seventh Executive President of Sri Lanka. While the Rajapaksa dynasty may indeed be celebrating regaining and consolidating their stranglehold...
By Kassapa
For weeks, these columns have been filled with details of the outrageous incompetency, impunity and impulsivity with which this government has acted, more so in recent months. The appointments of Ajith Nivard Cabraal and Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara thero,...
By KASSAPA
Just where will the government led by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and headed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa draw the line, when it comes to acting with impunity and callous disregard to the letter and spirit of...
By Kassapa
Every now and then, political parties make miraculous comebacks. The resurrection of the United National Party (UNP) after its debacle at the hands of the newly formed, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike led Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in 1956 was...
The Sinhalese language, known for its pithy expressions, has an expression for the maladministration of justice- ‘naduth haamuduruwangey, baduth haamuduruwangey’- implying that sometimes, the culprits and the decision makers in a court of law are one and the same.
The...
• CID cover up feared
• Cabraalnomics and economists who predict the worst is still to come
• Nagging foreign reserve crisis
• The immediate need for preemptive debt restructuring
The Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) will file a...
Alahapperuma’s job it is to put a positive spin on matters and sing for his supper, so he says that the humble admission of the President clearly manifests the democratic and down to earth attitude of President Rajapaksa and...
Make no mistake, it was not from a position of strength that Dudley Sirisena was speaking against a government that had an all-powerful Executive President by virtue of the 20th Amendment and a steamroller two-thirds majority in Parliament that...
for Two very different personalities, each powerful in their own way, succumbed to the deadly Covid-19 virus recently. Both of them, in departing this world at ages that you wouldn’t expect their deaths, left us wondering what is wrong...
• Yes, we are shocked at the alleged
incident because it is incorrigible, horrendous and indefensible but no, we are not surprised because this was, after all, Lohan Ratwattewhose previous foray into national headlines was twenty years ago when...
