By Vishvanath
There is hardly anything that Sri Lankan politicians do not make use of to gain political mileage. They do not even spare religion, religious leaders and places of worship. This practice, however, is not of recent origin; its...
A brief history of duplicitous politics and broken promises
By Vishvanath
Old habits are said to die hard, and the NPP government and its leader, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, stand accused of employing the same campaign tactics as their predecessors in...
By Vishvanath
India and Sri Lanka share an umbilical relationship rooted in deep civilizational, cultural, and religious linkages. However, this proximity has not always translated into mutual trust for both known and unknown reasons.
Historical ties between Sri Lanka and...
by Vishvanath
Time was when the local government (LG) elections were typically taken for granted. Left mostly to grassroots politicians, they were derisively dubbed kaanu-bokku (drain-culvert) elections because of relatively insignificant tasks assigned to the local councils. Hence, the LG polls came...
By Vishvanath
The JVP-led NPP government is coming under increasing pressure to practice what it preached while in the opposition and present to the parliament all seven MoUs it signed with India during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent Sri...
By Vishvanath
What was feared has come to pass. The US has increased tariffs on Sri Lankan goods to 44%. The Trump administration has described the unprecedented tariff hike under its new trade policy as a reciprocal measure in response...
By Vishvanath
All major political parties have launched their local government (LG) election campaigns, with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake himself leading the NPP’s. None of them, however, has anything new to offer to the electorate.
The Opposition is flaying the government...
By Vishvanath
The government and the Opposition are girding up their loins for the upcoming local government elections. All signs are that their campaigns will get down and dirty, given the high stakes all political parties have in it.
The ruling JVP-led NPP...
by Vishvanath
The British sanctions on three ex-military chiefs of Sri Lanka and a former LTTE military commander, who sided with the Sri Lankan military during the Eelam war, for ‘serious human rights violations and abuses, committed during the civil war, and...
Those who pay floral tributes to Rohana Wijeweera’s portrait lack the courage to look at his eyes – Leader of Second Generation Uvindu Wijeweera
By Vishvanath
The Batalanda Commission report is still in the news. The parliament is going to have...
By Vishvanath
Never a dull day in Sri Lanka! Issues crop up at such a pace that it is well-nigh impossible to keep track of them, much less tackle them, the latest being the ongoing hullabaloo over a 25-year-old presidential...
By Vishvanath
JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva, giving a press conference over the weekend, declared the NPP’s Colombo mayoral candidate—Vraie Cally Balthazaar, who is a National Executive Committee member of the NPP. His announcement came as no surprise, for she...
