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...
Politics continues to take precedence over everything else in this country notwithstanding the unprecedented economic crisis. Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam has informed the Supreme Court that the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, submitted by the SJB to the parliament,...
Sri Lankans are notoriously overdependent on politicians. Not even a primary school prizegiving is considered complete unless it is ‘graced’ by a politician. This kind of servile mindset has led to the deification of politicians, and the emergence of...
The stability of a government and a country’s political stability are not one and the same, though they are basically interdependent. In the late 1980s, there were very stable governments in this country; the J. R. Jayewardene administration had...
Ranil Wickremesinghe is in a dilemma. He declared in the parliament, on Tuesday, that he did not know whether he was in the government or in the Opposition. That he is in a state of confusion became evident when...
by Vishvanath
Nobody likes crises, which must be averted, or resolved immediately when they manifest themselves, but they are not devoid of some positive aspects that should be made use of. They have the potential to bring about progressive political,...
