By Vishvanath
The JVP, which drove workers to down tools at the drop of a hat under previous governments, is now opposing strikes, which it considers part of a conspiracy against the NPP government. It sounds just like its predecessors;...
By kassapa
The dust is still settling on the drama surrounding the interrogation, arrest, refusal of bail, remanding into custody and eventually granting bail to former President Ranil Wickremesinghe. Almost compelled to act, the collective opposition offered a knee-jerk reaction...
By Vishvanath
Never a dull in Sri Lanka thanks to its politics and politicians. Last week ended with something unusual that took the country by surprise. When a pro-government YouTuber predicted a week or so ago that former President Ranil...
By Vishvanath
There is hardly anything that politicians do not do to gain or/ retain power. A long stay in the political wilderness makes them undergo something similar to withdrawal syndrome that drug addicts develop after giving up narcotics cold...
By Kassapa
Despite most of its practitioners not being the most erudite or intelligent, politics is a difficult sport to engage in. It requires a different kind of nuanced approach. Even the supposedly more intelligent players slip up every now...
By Vishvanath
Government teachers were engaged in a protest near the Presidential Secretariat , and postal workers were on strike, at the time of writing (Aug. 19). The teachers had stayed there overnight, demanding a presidential intervention to restore a...
By Vishvanath
The problem with political propaganda is that it tends to backfire, as has been the NPP government’s experience. During its election campaigns, the JVP-led NPP gained a great deal of political mileage with its claim that a satellite...
By Vishvanath
The NPP government is drawing heavy fire for what its rivals describe as politicising the National Youth Services Council (NYSC). Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has gone on record as saying that the NPP has been ‘infiltrating’ all associations...
Farmers, teachers, student leaders on the warpath
By Vishvanath
The SJB-led Opposition is bragging that it has seized control of a considerable number of hung local councils, where the JVP obtained pluralities in the May 06 local government LG) elections. That is no mean...
By Vishvanath
The biggest enemy of any government is not the Opposition but the so-called anti-incumbency factor, which has a corrosive effect on the ruling party’s popularity. Other negative factors, such as the abuse of power, corruption, cronyism, nepotism, failure...
By Vishvanath
An important political event, which occurred on Thursday (24), did not receive much media attention. The local media space has recently been cluttered with a barrage of news about various issues, ranging from tear-jerkers such as a dead tusker and an abandoned...
By Kassapa
The 2024 presidential and general elections brought about a seismic change in the Sri Lankan political landscape. The leftist Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB), dominated by the previously proscribed Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) rose to power, defeating the ‘traditional’...
