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Sri Lanka’s Global Vulnerability & the Devolution Conundrum
Photo courtesy The Hindustan Times/AP A society or state that demonstrates repeated violent convulsions over a fairly prolonged period such...
Continue reading »UNP’S DRAFT, TNA’S OPTIONS & THE CBK COMEBACK SCENARIO
Photo courtesy China Daily The UNP’s constitutional draft makes a most positive contribution by unambiguously committing itself to a unitary...
Continue reading »Sri Lanka at a critical crossroad: JHU and the 13th Amendment
Udaya Gammanpila, Senior Member of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), courtesy FT.lk The country stands at a crossroad. A parliamentary...
Continue reading »OPPOSITION MYTHS, POLITICAL REALITIES
Image courtesy Asianews.it Erroneous political thinking and analysis obscure and obstruct the path of the political recovery of the Opposition...
Continue reading »Sri Lanka Today: Due Process & Civil Liberties or Security State?
Photo courtesy The Nation “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”...
Continue reading »NORTHERN PROVINCIAL COUNCIL: THE DEVOLUTION DEBATE
I approach this subject as a political scientist, a former diplomat and briefly a Minister in the Cabinet of the...
Continue reading »First Failure in Geneva: Trap, Blunder or Model?
However bad Sri Lanka’s foreign policy is and external relations are, they have yet to hit the nadir that they...
Continue reading »ANTI-BBS VIGIL: A CRITIQUE OF MALINDA SENEVIRATNE’S CRITIQUE
An image of a true, 100% verified, authentic, original, perfect Buddhist. Not. I wasn’t at the vigil because I don’t...
Continue reading »ANTI-MUSLIM EXTREMISM & DILEMMAS OF DIVERSITY IN SRI LANKA
Opening presentation at 2nd in Discussion series on Constitutional Reform organized by The Liberal Party) Having come out of the...
Continue reading »AN ARAB SPRING OR A BARACK OBAMA?
Image courtesy RFI [Remarks delivered at the discussion on the Separation of Powers in the series "Ideas for Constitutional Reform"...
Continue reading »A Critique of Political Fundamentalism in Sri Lanka
The mirror-like symmetries of dogmatic Sinhala and Tamil nationalism are occasionally remarked upon but not often pinned down. It is...
Continue reading »Chandrika’s discourse
Former president of Sri Lanka Chandrika Kumaratunga at business centre of Grand Palace Hotel in Srinagar. Kashmir. India. 2008. ©...
Continue reading »SRI LANKA & TAMIL SELF-DETERMINATION
The announcement that elections to the Northern Provincial Council will be held in September 2013 has raised eyebrows in some...
Continue reading »EQUALITY, UNITY, AUTONOMY, DEMOCRACY
[Editors note: This article was originally published without the final two paragraphs due to an oversight by me in copying...
Continue reading »INCREMENTAL SECESSIONISM: WHY DEVOLUTION MUSTN’T BE OPEN-ENDED
Picture from Colombo Telegraph While everything is debatable, not everything is negotiable. Some things, a few things, simply must not be...
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