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...
We have never been great fans of Gammanpila for he brings to mind the saying that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel and his public posturing has had racism written all over it, but this claim from...
By Kassapa
Two much awaited announcements- whether Ranil Wickremesinghe will run for President and whether the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) will support him- came this week and caused raised eyebrows in many quarters and led to confusion on all fronts.
Wickremesinghe’s...
By Kassapa
The elections in September and November have turned Sri Lanka’s political world topsy-turvy. The hitherto untried Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) is in power, with a parliamentary majority in excess of two-thirds, to boot. Theoretically at least, they can...
The cold war between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) had a public display of hostility last week, in what turned out to be a good barometer of the tensions between the President and his...
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...
By Kassapa
It is not always that Basil Rajapaksa speaks his mind but when he does, there is a purpose behind it.
Therefore, when Rajapaksa, the ‘founder’ of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) gives an interview to ‘Sirasa’, a media...
Who is carrying out the Rajapaksa legacy better than the Rajapaksas in the absence of the Rajapaksas? It is none other than Ranil Wickremesinghe who is being appropriately described in some circles as ‘Ranil Rajapaksa’.
If any convincing evidence was...
There was a time when it seemed as if it would never happen but Keheliya Rambukwella has finally lost the coveted Health portfolio. Ultimately listening to public opinion, President Ranil Wickremesinghe replaced him with...
Election to the Elpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha, concluded last Saturday, has generated much discussion. Many an interpretation has been offered, some of it founded on inaccurate assumptions. While the results of an isolated local council must not be used to extrapolate...
For those who have lived long enough to remember events of nearly fifty years ago April 1974 was when the government of then Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike sealed Independent Newspapers Limited, popularly known as the ‘Davasa’ group. It was...
By Kassapa
If one were to capture in a single word the rationale of a majority of voters electing Anura Kumara Dissanayake as President and the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) into government with a two-thirds majority late last year, it...
