Opinion
Restoring the Uva railway
By Rohan Samarajiva It’s almost eight months since Ditwah hit. It will be another five or six months before it will be possible...
Market access, not aid, is the foreign currency for Sri Lanka
By Dinesh Weerakkody With persistent volatility in the Sri Lankan rupee, constrained sovereign credit ratings, a significant external debt burden, and ongoing repayment...
LNG in Sri Lanka: Time for a new business model
Moving beyond government-funded infrastructure By Prof. Udayanga Hemapala Sri Lanka’s energy transition is usually discussed in terms of renewable energy, battery storage, transmission...
Power politics in the age of AI
By Milinda Moragoda The global order is entering a harder-edged phase of realism, in which power increasingly rests on the ability to compel...
The man who brought the state to the village
Remembering President Ranasinghe Premadasa on his 102nd birth anniversary By Prasanna Perera On June 23, 1924, a child was born in Dias Place,...
Financing Sri Lanka’s energy transition: New business models for a system that cannot wait
By Prof. Udayanga Hemapala Sri Lanka’s energy transition will not be financed by government budgets alone. That much is clear from the numbers....
Sri Lanka’s digital future: The structure and trajectory of a connected economy
By Cathrine Weerakkody “Communication bandwidth is one of the fundamental limits on progress,” said Elon Musk, a reminder that the pace of economic...
The Prevention of Terrorism Act: A promise deferred, a legacy of abuse unresolved
By Chanakya Nearly half a century after its introduction, Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) remains one of the country’s most controversial...
