Opinion
Amended again: the 1978 Constitution faces its 22nd test
By Chanakya Parliament is due to hold a two-day debate on Thursday and Friday on the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. Its central...
Drug menace is a shared threat for Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka — and a new opportunity
A high-level political dialogue between Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, supported by the Indian government, followed by a joint mechanism for cooperation would...
In the Iran war, a tale of old American dilemmas
Japan in 1945 and Iran today are fundamentally different cases. Nor can the atomic bomb of 1945 simply be compared with today’s sophisticated...
The centre-right: Wrong about everything
By Kusum Wijetilleke The Nobel Prize for Economics was not one of the original prizes established by Alfred Nobel, which in 1901 included...
What one small clinic tells us about Sri Lanka’s future
By Dr. Aleksander (Sasha) Bodiroza The road to Meeriyabedda winds through the hills above Passara, past tea estates and small communities where distance...
A neighbour’s view of India’s strategic strengths
What India chooses to do with the strategic freedom it has built over eight decades may be the defining question of its next...
America’s new strategy: Control the system, not the world
By Milinda Moragoda As BRICS prepares to meet in New Delhi, it would do well to understand not only what the United States...
Sri Lanka has one last chance to become a strategic hub in Indian Ocean
By Milinda Moragoda Sri Lanka has three assets that could make it a logistics and energy hub in the Indian subcontinent comparable in...
