Sri Lanka, being a sovereign state since 1948, is celebrating its 75th year of being such a state today with much pomp and pageantry, lavishly spending millions of rupees from public coffers which could have been otherwise used on essential kinds of medicine and medical equipment to save those who are crying in hospital beds for nothing, but life, due to sheer want of proper medication.
Tomorrow, we move into a new month and a special one because on February 4 we celebrate the 75th anniversary of our independence. The government of President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) are taking practical, but difficult steps to revive the socio-political and economic crisis since independence. The Pres
Can someone tell me how on earth these two campaign slogans are mutually compatible? Both were heard loud and clear in the last week’s ‘Black week’ anti-tax demonstrations by the country’s professional classes - Government doctors, university dons, CEB engineers, bankers etc. First is the opposition to the government’s new personal income tax, a progressive tax system that lowered the taxable threshold to Rs.100,000 per month and levied an increm
The UK-Ceylon Defence Pact of 1947 was entered into with great expectations from both parties. But it was jinxed from the word go. Continually contested right throughout its existence, it was given a quiet burial by mutual cons
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....