An Interview with SB Dissanayake by Chamitha Kuruppu Admitting the Government has launched a campaign to eliminate JVP-led student movements crippling the university system in the country, Minister of Higher Education S.B. Dissanayake points out such moves should not be...

Times are not propitious for incumbent presidents and prime ministers when pillars that support the economy collapse or are tottering, particularly during election times. This applies mainly to Western democracies and not necessarily to ‘guided democracies’ and other assortments of democracies in the Third World whose leaders invariably scoop up 70 to 90 per cent ...