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The United National Party (UNP) is heading towards a dangerous internal rupture as the jockeying for the party candidacy at the presidential election is fought ugly along the usual fault lines. During the last ten years, internal fighting in the UNP
Both the US and the Taliban are participating in the on-going series of talks in Doha (Qatar) in the hope of arriving at a ceasefire and a settlement which will enable: (1) the holding of intra-Afghan political negotiations for sharing power (2) the
A silent revolution is now under way in the marketing of agricultural products in the Jaffna District. The system is designed to prevent the merciless exploitation of farmers and consumers by middlemen and brokers, who recklessly rob the farmers misu
After much deliberations and meticulous analysis of Intelligence reports, in 1988, following a hard and painful struggle and out of absolute need for socio-political survival, JR and his coterie reluctantly handed....
As I reflect on my youth in an infinitely more genteel era, one wonders where the principles, values and sense of right and wrong that were instilled in us as children have gone? Gratitude, loyalty and other have vanished....
These are times for economic debates as the global economy may again be on the edge of falling into a deep recession. In this context, the recent interventions by Prof. Howard Nicholas in Colombo....
In the early 1980s, Sri Lanka’s iconic musical group -‘The ‘Gypsies’- wrote and put to music one of their famous ditty ‘Uncle Jonsonge Jubilee Partiya’. A take-off based on a wedding anniversary celebration....
There is political excitement in the air in anticipation of the presidential election before year end. Although no dates have been specified, there is much speculation about prospective candidates and their prospects. Among those being spoken of as p
As Sri Lanka struggles to bind itself together three months after the deadly Easter Sunday attacks, the country’s Muslims continue to face constant scrutiny, with the security apparatus and reactionary forces turning their violent gaze on them.
The UNICEF World Children’s Report 2017 reveals that globally, more than 12 million girls marry below the age of 18 every year. An estimated 200,000 children in the United States were married between 2000 to 2015, according to ABC News. The UNICEF
A recent story where some Jaffna residents opposed the work of a company to set up the infrastructure and provide 5G technology exposed the backward thinking of a section of these northerners.
As Sri Lankans ready themselves for the much awaited Presidential Elections one of the minority communities, the Tamils, are left wondering as to what their future in the island would be. Former Northern Province Council member M.K Sivajilingam has s
Strategies work in politics. But, the same strategy is unlikely to work twice. It will yield on the first occasion, but not on the next. Ahead of the Presidential Elections, the two main political forces are now occupied with strategizing for the p
US Ambassador Aliana Teplitz is agitated. The lady is in a hurry. She has written to President Maithripala Sirisena seeking his intervention to ensure Cabinet approves the proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact agreement between the
We have at times heard the phrase, ‘When the shit hits the fan’ meaning when things we never heard of thus far suddenly coming out into the public domain. We are now facing such a situation when literally the muck belonging to other countries has
It is said that the government is planning to enlarge the Cabinet again from the current 30 to 48 and increase the number of non-Cabinet ministers to 45, on the basis of the ruling United National Party (UNP) having formed a National Government. Sri
In 2013, the UN member states adopted a resolution which designated July 30 as World Day against Trafficking in Persons. The declaration of such a day was necessary to ‘raise awareness of the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the pr
The sun seems to be shining on the Sri Lankan voters after a long period of uncertainty. There was a time when it looked like that no political party was interested in elections and the country would drag on like a ship without a destination.
Mahinda Rajapaksa is an extraordinary individual. His passion for power seems to have overrun all plausible limits; his determination to cling on to something that is very tangible that comes in the guise of sheer ‘power’ saw to it that his polit
With apologies to John Steinbeck, I’d like to begin with a quote from his famous book ‘THE GRAPES OF WRATH” “I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for the Great Depression,” in our case, not the Great Depre
Patriotic trolling, sounds a bit odd, but it is a very real, very common phenomenon. The last example from Sri Lanka was not so long ago. A woman complains on Facebook and Twitter that she would not support the car-free day, simply because she feels
Last week the world was plunged into shock when it heard the news that dozens of bodies had been recovered from the Mediterranean Sea, a day after the shipwreck that caused the deaths of up to 150 migrants. Eyewitnesses described harrowing scenes in
These days, there is a rather peculiar interest in the educational qualifications of the prospective contenders for the forthcoming presidential election. Minister Champika Ranawaka, an Engineering graduate from Moratuwa university has said the UNP w
In its ‘White Paper on Defence’ released last week, China has listed the principal defence and security issues facing the country. Surprisingly, the bor
In 1788, James Madison, the primary author of the US Constitution, wrote in the Federalist Papers: “The aim of every political constitution, is (or ought to be), first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern....
“Behind the SOFA” is an English pop culture phrase relating the frightened reaction of hiding behind a sofa to keep away from seeing startling parts of a TV drama, with the sofa offering a hiding place, to avoid the screen....
In the run-up to the US presidential election of 2017, then candidate Trump berated all past US Presidents for involvement in wars around the world. He lambasted past US presidents....
In this short note, I wish to share the views of many who have spoken to me about the controversy over the Easter Sunday suicide attacks. Most of them do not write to newspapers; neither do I, as a general rule.
One of history’s best known boxers Muhammad Ali, besides achieving the fame of flying like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, is also a sort of a philosopher. For instance, he has said friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain - it
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