As the country becomes a battleground for local government elections with the government continuing its efforts to sabotage them, last week it demonstrated that it was hopelessly out of tune with the aspirations of the people
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More than 180 prominent economists and development experts from around the world have made a global appeal to Sri Lanka’s financial lenders to forgive its debt, even as other experts are not convinced it is the best way forward for the…
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As Sri Lanka enters its 17th IMF program, it's time to ask for a different solution to the country's problems
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In the months since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it has become unavoidable, as activists and politicians try to squeeze concrete answers from an eternal question of human existence.
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President Wickremesinghe should know that pacifying one region without doing enough for the others can only deepen his lack of legitimacy and contribute to even more chaos, disorder, dissent and rebellion in the long term.
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We would suggest that the Marasinghe shenanigans deserve all the airtime it gets, not because Marasinghe is a very important person or because it is the private dispute of a public official, but because it is a sad reflection of the lack of…
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Would you like our female teachers to report to work like those women in Sigiriya frescoes? That was a tradition too at one point in our history
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Two sets of convicts were released from jail this year in India: Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins and men who had been convicted for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano, then pregnant, and for the murder of 14 of her family members including her …
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In a broader sense, what transpires at SLC reflects what has happened to the rest of the country. A clique of rulers has held a stranglehold on power for the past fifteen years or so with a brief interruption in the ‘yahapalanaya’ era,…
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If Rajiv Gandhi had been assassinated today, would the probe have been limited to appointing a special investigation team and a pro forma mandatory hunt for the killers in the state of Tamil Nadu when the complicity of the Tamil Tigers…
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