All three tiers of government are in a severe crisis. Differences between the SLFP and the UNP in the national government have burst forth and taken their toll on the fragile unity of the ruling coalition following the Feb....
It is time to re-think how we elect representatives to our local administrative bodies.
Local government means having our day to day needs attended to; be it the collection of garbage, repair of drains and culverts or maintaining a clean...
In a year that has seen seismic shifts occur around the world, where often times the news has been a like a car accident, horrifying but with a chokehold on your attention span, cinema does seem like a distant...
How did the backlash against sexual abuse of women become weakened by all the female counter-arguments and counter-counter-arguments over the right to call out the abuse?
Women are so trapped by the instinct to nurture, to distance ourselves from aggression...
A new year brings with it the promise of change. Resolutions are made and often broken, even before the first month of the year comes to an end.
The Yahapalanaya government came in on the promise of change. This month,...
I agree, this has now become an oft heard cliché. And indeed, quite a relevant one in the current polemical debate and ensuing street protest and violence on the establishment of a private medical education institute in Sri Lanka...
Political analysts and weather forecasters have one thing in common, the world over. Their predictions, more often than not, go wrong and they become objects of ridicule as a result. On the political front what looks like a mere...
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...
