The Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown Aetiology(CKDu) which has plagued the north central province for nearly twenty years is spreading to other areas as well. And yet, neither the medical profession nor other researchers have found conclusive evidence of...
Sri Lanka is where it is, mainly because it is perennially in a state of confusion. Seventy years have elapsed since it gained Independence from the British, but it still cannot decide on a system of government suited for...
Trawling through Twitter over my breakfast hour, I noticed several users, from different parts of the world asking the same variant of a question, “Why is it that governments always fail us?” From Canada, to Turkey, to Brazil, to...
Sri Lanka is badly at risk of being out of step with a briskly economically-integrating South Asia. What is required is not simply an open economy in the ‘island nation’ but one that is steadily integrating itself with not...
In Sri Lanka’s post-war economy, studies on labour and livelihoods indicate deep structural inequalities.
When we look at the global political economy, we can see that the expansionary dynamics of the past forty years have produced an economic system that...
As Sri Lanka approaches the 70th anniversary of its independence, it also approaches elections, albeit local government elections and no less significant for being so. Long delayed – in some cases for 3 years – these elections will be...
Both the UNP and the UPFA-SLPP combine are readying themselves for a grand showdown on the political front. The former flexed its muscles, on Tuesday, by bringing large crowds to Colombo in protest against the appointment of former President...
The much-awaited Supreme Court determination on the dissolution is now known. What we are experiencing is history in the making.
There are several schools of thought as regards the current crisis, which will not go away immediately. They do not...
The stinging rebuke delivered by the country to the two main parties in government is indeed that – things cannot continue as before, promises have to be kept and the people have to be taken into the confidence of...
On Monday, the Court of Appeal issued an interim order restraining the appointed government of Mahinda Rajapaksa, including Ministers, State Ministers and Deputy Ministers from functioning. The order follows a petition submitted to the Court by 122 Members of...
