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Do candidates need armed security to ask for people’s votes?
I have read and heard of W. Dahanayake travelling to Colombo from Galle in the morning “Ruhunu Kumari” train with...
Continue reading »Parliamentary Elections 2010: Living through a kleptocracy and not wanting an alternative
Are we honestly serious in wanting democracy, our rights and human development, to live in Sri Lanka ? If we...
Continue reading »Going beyond Sarath Fonseka in achieving democracy for people
A visibly shaken wife in tears, Anoma Fonseka told the media “this is the gift my husband got for finishing...
Continue reading »Outcome of presidential elections in Sri Lanka: Is there anything to analyse?
On the day after elections, I sat in the afternoon to write this amidst phone calls and text messages inquiring...
Continue reading »People’s immediate post election responsibility on “corruption†promises
The presidential campaigns concluded officially a day ago and the “Programme for Protection of Public Property” (4P) calculated and exposed...
Continue reading »From here to nowhere and to an ‘Ahmadinejadian’ end?
“We vote to get president. We get president. But where our vote, we don’t know” was a line that I...
Continue reading »â€œBelievable Change†with unbelievable contradictions: Sarath Fonseka’s manifesto
[Authors note: Please also read Part 1 of this article, “Believable Change” with unbelievable evasiveness: Sarath Fonseka’s manifesto] The much...
Continue reading »â€œBelievable Change†with unbelievable evasiveness: Sarath Fonseka’s manifesto
Part 1 The presidential election manifesto of the opposition Common Candidate General (Rtd) Sarath Fonseka was released on 7 January,...
Continue reading »Rights, democracy and an “incorrigible†common candidate
While President Rajapaksa left the issue of elections steaming hot on the plate without any forks or spoons for popular...
Continue reading »The unwritten revelations of Sarath Fonseka’s letter requesting retirement from service
After weeks of media speculation on the prospective “Common Candidate”, to every one’s relief, confirmed news about General Sarath Fonseka’s...
Continue reading »A response to Mano Ganeshan: Beyond engaging the ‘Sarath Fonseka worshipers’
Once in a way, in this sad little Republic as Mano Ganeshan aptly calls Sri Lanka, there happens discussions, worth...
Continue reading »An open discourse with Mano Ganeshan on political honesty
It was no surprise in any way to read that Mano Ganeshan, Colombo district MP, leader of the Democratic People’s...
Continue reading »What now about the Rajapaksa regime, after the South?
What now about the Rajapaksa regime, after the South ? It was Velupillai Prabhakaran the late Tamil Tiger leader who...
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