By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, October 9: Thousands of people assemble at Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur in the Western Indian State of Maharashtra on October 14 every year to pay homage to Dr.B.R.Ambedkar (1891-1956), the iconic leader of the Dalits, India’s most depressed caste.
The Dalits...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, October 8: There were two major outcomes of the official visit of the Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu to India: New Delhi has brought Male under its security umbrella and has backed it up with a financial bonanza to help...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, October 5: The Indian External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar’s parleys with Sri Lanka’s new left-nationalist leaders on October 4 were cordial. But India-Lanka relations will still be troubled by the looming Sino-Indian conflict.
Jaishankar had a single-point agenda in...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, October 2: Bangladesh’s police need urgent reform. The post-Hasina Muhammad Yunus government has to rid the police of unbridled politicisation, corruption and lawlessness imbibed under Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year autocratic rule.
When Bangladesh’s student movement suddenly forced the powerful...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, October 1:
In Buddha’s time (Sixth-Fifth Century BC) flexibility marked the Hindu caste order and it was much later that the Vedic rigidities associated with caste gained currency, says Dr. Thomas William Rhys Davids in his book Buddhist India (T.Fisher...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 30: The post-Sheikh Hasina interim government in Bangladesh headed by Nobel Laureate Dr.Muhammad Yunus (84) has clearly won hearts in the West led by the United States. Yunus’ recent visit to the US to attend the...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 29: Tourism is the single most important source of livelihood in Maldives, directly contributing close to 30% to the GDP and generating more than 60% of foreign currency earnings. However, the Maldives Association of Tourism Industry...
Leftist always doesn’t mean pro-China’: I am reposting this interview because it is a clean break from the usual India-Sri Lanka trope. Refreshing young voice. Please listen if inclined. Also, it gladdens our heart that we are seen as...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 26: Addu atoll in the Maldives has a critical role to play in the defence of India’s strategic interest in the Indian Ocean Region in the face of burgeoning Chinese interest in the Western Indian Ocean.
The...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, SEptember 26: It was Buddhism which brought writing to India. Prior to its advent, thought and knowledge were not written down but wholly committed to memory and transmitted orally from generation to generation.
The initial reason for this...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, September 25: Vijitha Herath, Foreign Minister in the new leftist National Peoples’ Power (NPP) government in Sri Lanka, has said that foreign-funded projects will be assigned on the basis of open and transparent tendering.
But existing projects (mainly...
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N Sathiya Moorthy
23 September 2024
Shooting from the hip, Indian observers of the emerging Sri Lanka scene have to be told to stay off, and leave it to the government to handle the new Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader of that...
