by Surendra H.E. President Mahinda Rajapakse has pledged to develop Sri Lanka as the new miracle of Asia. Since this project concerns our collective destiny as a country, we should subject this project to a surgical analysis. Is this a...

Mahinda’s proxy tilt at the UN has given him an external enemy, enabling him to consolidate power and push through his Constitutional changes. The ‘us/them’ narrative of the LTTE is gone, but no one particularly likes the arrogant United Nations. Even opposition MPs like Sajith Premadasa have opposed the UN’s meddling in Sri Lanka which ...

By H. L. D. Mahindapala Everyone talks about the urgent need to have a strong opposition, but no one — not even the leader of the opposition — is doing anything about it. The absence of a credible opposition has created a huge vacuum and there is nothing in the political system to balance the ...

Interview with Ms. Tamara Kunanayakam, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Cuba Amb. Tamara Kunanayakam 1. You are Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Cuba. What brought you to Caracas? Our attention was drawn to the active presence in Caracas of a delegation...

I was intrigued to read Dr. Asoka Thenabadu’s article about “Sri Lankan drivers, good, bad or ugly”?  He refers to the drivers in UK and Singapore being polite, disciplined, courteous and considerate.  Why pretend? In UK, there is definitely road rage. As an expat, Dr. Thenabadu could compare Britain to Sri Lanka; not only to [...]

Quoting the International Crisis Report on the Tamil Diaspora to say that the “Dream of many Canadian Tamils for a truly independent homeland is dead,” The Globe And Mail in an editorial on Tuesday May 25th writes that "The sooner...

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