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Are We Going to Make the Same Mistake After 35 Years?
The discussions at the All-Party Representative Committee (APRC) have taken a significant turn in the last two three weeks and...
Continue reading »Views of the Periphery – Competing Views on Thoppigala
In his Mahaweera Day speech in 2005, Vellupillai Pirapaharan, the LTTE leader, depicted Ranil Wickremesinghe as a calculating fox who...
Continue reading »Ranil Wickramasinghe on Thoppigala
Ranil Wickramasingha and his party spokespersons are quite worried these days about the way in which Toppigala operation was carried...
Continue reading »The Mangala Sutra: Preliminary observations on Mangala’s third way
My article, in Sinhala, is a brief sketch on Mangala Samaraweera’s dramatic break from the SLFP and the introduction of...
Continue reading »All the President’s media
Taken from Al Jazeera Transforming State media Recent reports in the State media loudly proclaimed the President’s desire to depoliticise...
Continue reading »Mangala’s party and the Citizen’s dream
I begin my article with some quips and observations from friends and colleagues on Mangala’s new political party and his...
Continue reading »Thoughts on Sri Lankan Muslims: Ethnic Identity within Cultural Diversity
I thank the International Center for Ethnic Studies for giving me an opportunity to participate in this event to mark...
Continue reading »From a Tragedy to a Farce: Comments on the SLFP Proposals
Professor Wiswa Warnapala, the Minister of Higher Education, is one of the leading political scientists in Sri Lanka. He has...
Continue reading »A Marxist Perspective on Constitutional Reforms
Erik Olin Wright, in his interesting and insightful article entitled “Compass Points: Towards a Socialist Alternative†(in New Left Review...
Continue reading »The Rise of “Peace†Professionals in Sri Lanka: Rent-Seeking in the Peace Sector
Writing on the political economy of war, David Keen has written the following words: “[T]he study of war has been...
Continue reading »Some thoughts on the Second Chamber
Some Thoughts on the Second Chamber  By Sumanasiri Liyanage One of the main lacuna in the 2000 constitutional draft...
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