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With Sri Lanka’s economy collapsing under Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022, the country faced unprecedented hardship, threatening society The Former President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, utilised the experience that…
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We were told the free market was the only way forward for development, and were demanded to abandon our social welfare policies The internal dynamics are…
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In 2022, Sri Lanka faced its deepest ever economic and political crisis. The country’s descent into chaos accelerated from March, sweeping away high-level bureaucrats and political…
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Have the cake and eat it, too: This may be a hackneyed phrase. But it is an apt idiom to describe a desperate Sri Lankan government’s…
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The momentous year of 2022 for Sri Lanka can be divided into two major phases. In the first phase, people grew frustrated with the failure of…
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Reducing allocation for defense will require retrenching soldiers. Cutting loose angry youth with weapons skills is not what the crisis-ridden island needs now. Defense spending is…
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Foreign arms producers benefitted from Sri Lanka’s 30-year war making us now to beg their governments for food and fuel! The war launched in 1979 to…
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When the Buddha was asked who would be the successor, the unhesitating answer was that it was the Dhamma. He wanted the followers to tread the…
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Inter University Bikkhu Federation Convener Ven. Galwewa Siridhamma Thera who was detained along with Convener of the Inter University Student Federation (IUSF) Wasantha Mudalige under a…
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The dramatic high inflation of essential goods was not just caused by the unravelling economic crisis, or the war in Ukraine leading to the rise in…
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The vote on the 22nd Amendment to the constitution lays bare the declining grip of the Rajapaksas over the SLPP. On October 21, the Sri Lankan…
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Unelected and brutal, Ranil Wickremesinghe must go. But so must the executive presidency that keeps serving up tyrants. Sri Lankans are used to tyrants as presidents.…
