Sri Lanka’s current political impasse: Some additional thoughts
Photo courtesy Editors note: Read in conjunction with by the same author. Sri Lanka has entered another phase of political crisis. It is a three-fold crisis. The first is at the level…
Author: Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda
Sri Lanka’s deepening political crisis: Not losing an opportunity to lose another opportunity
Image courtesy Is the (‘good governance’) regime jointly led President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremasinghe slowly abandoning its political reform commitments made during the Presidential and Parliamentary elections of 2015? Are the…
From February to October: The Legacy of the Russian Revolution & Sri Lanka today
When we commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the world situation has changed quite dramatically. Capitalism, which those who welcomed the Russian revolution thought would leave the stage of…
Yahapalanaya in Sri Lanka: Remains of the Day
(’good governance’) regime. President Sirisena is doing it with a little loyalty to the constituencies that enabled him to win the presidential election in January 2015. He has been going after the…
Post-War Reconciliation in Sri Lanka – A Reality Check
Photo courtesy James Morgan I share the basic premise on which the theme of this seminar seems to have been constructed, that is, “peace and reconciliation are a prerequisite for nation-building in…
Text of the speech on the release of the book, ‘Grandfather’s Letters’
This delightful little book is a selection of letters written by Mr. C. Suntharalingam to his grandchildren. C. Anjalendran, a grandson, has put them together, with a brief ‘Introduction”. Perera and Hussein…
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy Trends since January 2015: Some Critical Thoughts
Photo courtesy My views expressed here today do not represent positions of any political party, or any power center. I do not have any personal or political stake either at the ways…