The equanimity of the law is lopsided in reference to Gajendran Kumar Ponnamabalam and Lohan Ratwatte
By KASSAPA
Everyone, except perhaps the President of the country who has immunity from prosecution, is supposed to be equal before the law in Sri...
Edirisooriya’s detention comes hot on the heels of the drama about self-proclaimed pastor Jerome Fernando, also accused of hurting religious sensibilities. However, there are significant differences. In his sermon, Fernando did have an element of instigating religious discord, trying...
This sequence of events has all the features of a meticulously scripted drama. Much has been made of the fact that neither the President’s Secretary nor the Prime Minister intervened; indeed, they should be commended for not doing so....
The ‘man of the moment’ last week was no politician but a preacher, Pastor Jerome Fernando. Fernando states in a sermon of his that the Buddha was ‘looking for Jesus’ because the Buddha sought enlightenment and Jesus had described...
Every country, it has been said, gets the government it deserves. That may be so in democracies because people do vote their governments in but Sri Lanka now finds itself in a curious situation: it has got neither the...
The lofty ideals of the ‘Aragalaya’ are arguably more distant today than when Gotabaya Rajapaksa was at the helm.
There was no designated political leadership to sustain the Aragalaya, and Ranil Wickremesinghe exploited it to the full.
This...
The marriage of convenience between Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Rajapaksa-led Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) was, in a sense, a shotgun wedding. Now, is the honeymoon over?
To recap the events that led to Wickremesinghe becoming an ‘Accidental President’, that...
The government's inaction on this matter has caused a severe public outcry, and it is becoming increasingly clear that they are more concerned with using the attack to further their own political agenda rather than taking the necessary steps...
The government- or more accurately, President Ranil Wickremesinghe- has called for a debate on the bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). No such debate is required. The IMF agreement is now a done deal and does not require...
The question is being asked in political circles as fissures begin to appear in the marriage of convenience between Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP) and the party he is in government with, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led...
The political strategy of President Ranil Wickremesinghe is becoming clearer with every passing day: divide and rule.
Having been handed the Executive Presidency on a platter because he happened to be at the right place at the right time (being...
If there is a will there is a way. That appears to be the thinking of the government regarding elections.
For several months now, the government has been trying its level best not to conduct local government elections. To achieve...
