Opinion
Sri Lanka’s latest climate-driven floods expose flaws in disaster preparations – here’s what needs to change
Ravindra Jayaratne When Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on November 28 2025, Sri Lanka experienced one of its deadliest environmental disasters in modern history....
Massive humanitarian crisis looming in the wake of Ditwah cyclone disaster in Sri Lanka
By Wasantha Rupasinghe In the wake of Cyclone Ditwah, which has now veered toward India, Sri Lanka is in the grip of a...
Why Ranil Wickremesinghe should be in Parliament?
By Adolf Sri Lanka stands at a crossroads. The country is reeling from one of its worst natural disasters in decades, while still...
Sri Lanka’s interest-rate trap
By Arjun Jayadev, Ahilan Kadirgamar, and J.W. Mason The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has inexplicably maintained high interest rates in a deflationary...
Sri Lanka’s 2026 budget lays markers for growth, but what’s missing?
Following a remarkable recovery from a very deep crisis in 2022, Sri Lanka’s recent budget consolidates economic stabilisation and introduces a few markers...
Another wound in the North yet to heal
By Dr. Jehan Perera This past 30 October marked the 35th anniversary of a mass crime that has all but faded from public...
Is China Grooming Bimal to Lead Sri Lanka’s JVP?
China’s growing influence in Sri Lanka’s politics raises questions over whether Bimal Ratnayake is being positioned as the JVP’s next leader. by Upul...
Jaffna’s mass graves: How ghosts of Sri Lanka’s civil war continue to haunt the youth
By Lakshmi Subramanian The mass graves at Chemmani cemetery in Jaffna reveal hundreds of human remains, reopening the painful wounds of Sri Lanka’s...
