Unp Leadership Battle Moves Up A Gear:  Shows No Sign Of Abating The battle for the UNP leadership has been slowly gathering momentum with the membership across the country calling for a change. A number of players have yet to throw their hats into the ring. Senior UNP stalwarts Ravi Karunanayake and Sajith Premadasa have ...

By Dayan Jayatilleka What is the ‘main contradiction’ in Sri Lanka today? It is that between the very broad national base of support and sacrifice for the war and the resultant peace on the one hand, and the increasingly narrow character of the beneficiaries of the dividends of that popular peace, on the other. The war was national but the peace dividend and its distribution appe...