Opinion
SC determination on 22A: A law and policy critique
By Professor G. L. Peiris There is widespread interest in the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka in this country as...
Sri Lanka at the UN: A diplomatic appearance that raises more questions than answers
By Dinouk Colombage Following last night’s address by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Vijitha Herath, at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the foreign...
Reflections on President AKD’s two-year rule
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham 23 September, exactly two years were completed since Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD), leader of the National People’s Power (NPP), took...
Back to the future: The rise of technopolitics
Technology is increasingly shaping global power, with the US-China rivalry, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and other emerging technologies becoming central to geopolitics and strategic...
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...
