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Author: Dr. H Kumarasingham

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Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Politics and Governance

An Eastminster for a New Sri Lanka: The First XI Institutional Reforms for a Parliamentary State

Photograph courtesy Article 14 blog “Vous l’avez voulu [You asked for it], George Dandin” mischievously exclaimed the Soulbury Commission’s report 70 years ago implying that their recommendation of the British parliamentary system…

Dr. H Kumarasingham Dr. H Kumarasingham on 01/31/2015
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Elections, Long Reads, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

‘The Jewel of the East yet has its Flaws’ – The Deceptive Tranquillity surrounding Sri Lankan Independence

Image courtesy Sumith Wickramasinghe. For a wider examination of the issues covered in this article see my recently published book , London: I. B. Tauris, 2013 The just concluded presidential election saw…

Dr. H Kumarasingham Dr. H Kumarasingham on 01/16/201501/16/2015

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