Bouquets outnumber brickbats in AKD’s performance
By Col R Hariharan The year 2025 will be remembered in Sri Lanka for Cyclone Ditwah, which struck the Sri Lanka coast towards the...
Why Venezuela matters to the Global South
By J. Abeywickrema Who rules when rules disappear? A single man and a small circle of his closest aides, unknown even to the...
Deferred accountability and elevated expediency
In the annals of governance, few practices are as corrosive as the predilection to manufacture crises, then feign investigation when they explode in...
The politics of innocence
By Vox Civis Even as another year dawns and families across Sri Lanka ready their children for a new school term complete with...
Vehicle imports & a familiar path to crisis: A cautionary parallel
By Ruisiripala Tennakoon Sri Lanka’s recent policy shift on vehicle imports, while politically popular and superficially comforting to consumers, raises deeper economic concerns...
Moving forward from Ditwah: Understanding the scale, impact and road to recovery
By Hirun Matheesha Rajapaksha The most devastating natural disaster to hit Sri Lanka in decades, Cyclone Ditwah, has forced the country into its...
Sri Lanka’s overseas migration likely to exceed 300,000 again this year
Sri Lanka’s annual overseas migration is likely to exceed 300,000 people again this year, despite earlier expectations of a decline below crisis-era levels,...
India’s consistent assistance a model for the Indian Ocean and Indo-Pacific Regions – Lankan Envoy
As India recently announced a US$ 450 million “reconstruction package” for Sri Lanka, to help the island nation recover from the devastating impact...
Ranwala crash: Govt. lays bare its true face
by Dr Upul Wijayawardhana The NPP government is apparently sinking into a pit dug by one of its members, ‘Dr’ Asoka Ranwala; perhaps...
