#Sri Lanka
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...
University autonomy under siege: Sri Lanka’s dangerous drift toward politicised higher education
By Dr Mahim Mendis “A university ceases to be a university the moment it loses the freedom to govern itself.” – Professor Clark...
Laws must anticipate abuse, not intentions
By Jehan Perera A prominent feature of the first year of the NPP government is that it has not engaged in the institutional...
