Once a soldier, always a soldier. Old habits die hard. Military officers talk tough even after entering civvy street. About two years ago, the then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa read the riot act to a group of public officials responsible...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s presidency has got off to a bumpy start. Within hours of his swearing-in on July 21, heavily armed military personnel and police commandos descended on the Galle Face protesters in a pre-dawn operation, which left over...
UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, who failed to win the executive presidency twice (in 1999 and 2005) and chose to skip three presidential contests (in 2010, 2015 and 2019) has become the Executive President by virtue of being in the...
The Sri Lanka Parliament is set to elect a new President tomorrow (20) amidst a political turmoil owing to the resignation of President Rajapaksa. This is the second time such an election is taking place in the House. The...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has buckled under pressure from protesters demanding his resignation. On Saturday (09) he threw in the towel for all practical purposes. He has undertaken to resign tomorrow (13 July), according to a special announcement Speaker Mahinda...
The government seems to have adopted a fatalistic attitude; it seems oblivious to the danger of anarchy descending on the country. Having pinned all their hopes on the IMF, its leaders are apparently keeping their fingers crossed while the...
There seems to be no light at the end of the proverbial tunnel for Sri Lankans, who are undergoing untold hardships with the government doing precious little to resolve the worsening economic crisis, much less grant them relief. Fuel...
Tomb raiders and politicians do not scruple to disturb the dead. The former look for valuables in tombs, and the latter hunt for memories, cherished or dreaded, to gain political mileage. One’s loss is said to be another’s gain....
The Opposition is making a fresh bid to launch a protest campaign against the Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe administration as the Gota-go Gama agitation at the Galle Face Green (GFG) is running out of steam. A group of SJB women’s wing members...
Former President Maithripala Sirisena is in the news again. He has embarked on a campaign to have a new government formed. He has told the media that there has to be a truly all-party caretaker government to steer the...
The government is drawing heavy flak for what its critics call misplaced priorities; it appears to be keener to amend the Constitution than to sort out the economic crisis or take action to avert a possible famine, which agricultural...
Many people may not be familiar with the above-given free verse poem, which has resurfaced recently, and is being widely circulated via social media. It used to be more or less the JVP’s revolutionary anthem, several decades ago. Roughly...
