Now that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Cabinet has taken some substantial if not final shape, the question arises as to whether the old wine in an older bottle or bottles tastes matured or sour
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hen President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened this month to block NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, Western officials were exasperated — but not shocked
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ust weeks ago, it was unthinkable that Ranil Wickremesinghe’s political future could be resurrected, even resuscitated. The takeover of the premiership when he truly was on his last legs is an opening gambit that may prove to be clever and…
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Gotabaya stole the thunder by forcing brother Mahinda Rajapaksa to carry the cross, which was his, and also quit office. He won’t let Ranil steal his political thunder, and give him a defined role to lead the nation’s economic recovery.…
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The appointment of Wickremesinghe as Prime minister is widely seen as a move to allow President Gotabaya to continue in his position in the hope that the protests will eventually dissolve. But this is unlikely to appease the activists, who…
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In the immediate context, as president, Gotabaya has to decide if he could order elder brother Mahinda's arrest as the agent provocateur of Monday's violence. Then he has to prepare for an interim government, in which no one would now want…
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For India, the decision to hold tight to its neutrality on Russia’s war in Ukraine is no longer just about keeping its options open in a world with multiple centres of power. It has evolved into a lucrative case of economic opportunism:…
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Often, when governments fall, the defining blow comes from within. That is exactly what is happening to the government headed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa where brother Mahinda Rajapaksa is Prime Minister
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It is only after the death of this heinous reign that Sri Lankans will gain a fresh lease on life. But it won’t be an easy passage. When this time comes and the violent end games of the Rajapaksas have played out, what will instantly be…
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The Catholic Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, knows exactly why most Sri Lankans are living through the worst times ever experienced in recent history. It’s the curse on the bloodstained leaders of the land
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