As Sri Lanka prepares to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Independence, the Government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramua (SLPP) are struggling to get the country and the people out of its worst socio-economic and political crisis since independence in 1948.
Sri Lanka’s professional classes are paragons of virtues at normal times. But, their bruised sense of entitlement at the new personal income tax revisions is nothing but a callous display of rent-seeking....
On January 12, the Tamil Nadu State Assembly unanimously adopted a government resolution urging New Delhi to immediately implement the long-pending “Sethusamudram project” which envisages a canal cut through the Gulf of Mannar a
The massive deforestation and arbitrary acquisition of reserve lands in Pottuvil area in Ampara are continuing. Day by day, lands belonging to the Wildlife, Forest and Archaeology Departments are being....
Today the country is held in thraw of an impending local government election. Our president has said he will not be involved in electioneering. This is perhaps a good precedent for future heads of state to follow -remaining above partisan party politics.
The recent Canadian sanctions against two former Sri Lankan Presidents Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mahinda Rajapaksa and two security forces personnel for “gross and systematic human rights violations” show the great clout Tamils of Sri Lankan origin have in Canada.
On April 12, 2022, our then government announced Lanka was bankrupt. It suspended repayment of external debts admitting the country would be unable to honour its international commitments - nearly US$ 6 billion in debt servicing that year and US$ 25 billion till 2026. Government l
Not many years ago -in 2010 to be exact- a particular past president of our country said his aim was to turn Lanka into ‘The Wonder of Asia’.Today in many ways, we have become a ‘Wonder of Asia’. Unfortunately NOT in the way or manner that president had imagined.