The Indrajit Coomaraswamy Issue: A matter of decency
Featured image courtesy Sri Lanka Mirror The issue of the appointment of Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy as the Governor of the Central Bank is a defining one. It is an issue on which…
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Panama Papers: List of individuals, intermediaries and addresses connected to Sri Lanka
A large tranche of documents was released on 9 May 2016 by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) around “Panama Papers”, a fraction from a trove of more than 11.5 million leaked…
From Panama Papers to Child Marriage: Food for Thought, Battles to Wage
Image courtesy CNN “To walk our way and keep our eyes fixed on it Is mankind’s first and foremost obligation.” Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe) It is a lie, beloved by the powerful,…
Will Sri Lanka Wake Up To The Realities of The ‘Panama Papers’ Exposure?
Featured image courtesy AFP/GETTY – Rodrigo Arangua On April 3, 2016, , Germany’s largest daily newspaper leaked 11.5 million files from the database of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm headquartered in Panama City, Panama….
Screening of ‘Our Brand is Crisis’
The film ‘Our Brand is Crisis‘ is deeply resonant in Sri Lanka. How it deals with the party political fabric and culture, electioneering, the propaganda campaigns of candidates and their respective parties,…
Corruption: Where is Sri Lanka Now?
December 9 is global Anti-Corruption Day. To mark the occasion, used Twitter’s new poll feature in order to gauge what our followers felt about corruption. Since the option to add short polls…
Are we progressing towards Good Governance?
Featured image courtesy puvath.lk I wish I could answer this question with an unqualified yes, but I cannot. There has been significant progress on several issues, but also stagnation and even regression…
Civil Society Call for the removal of Thilak Marapana from his portfolio due to Avant Garde controversy
Picture courtesy AsiaMirror A group of concerned civil society members have called for the removal of Cabinet Minister Thilak Marapana from his portfolio of of Law and Order, Prison Reforms due to…
Dialog Accused Of “Not Fully Cooperating” In Prageeth’s Case
Picture courtesy Sri Lanka Brief On October 29, reports surfaced on social media that corporation Dialog and the Sri Lankan Army were “not fully cooperating” with missing journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda’s case. The…
Big bribes for customs and ‘Yahapalanaya’
Image courtesy The largest ever bribe in Sri Lanka to date seems that which was offered to three top officials in the Customs Department on 14 October (2015), in a place somewhere…
Resurrecting a Supremacist
Photo from If there is a man in this country, apart from Mahinda Rajapaksa, with a conscience more impervious to ethical and moral considerations, a conscience so thickly armour plated that it…
The Central Bank Bond Controversy Revisited
By Sam Samarasinghe and Dushyantha Mendis The Ministry of Policy Planning and Economic Affairs has on April 19 issued a press release announcing some findings of the three-member committee that Prime Minister…
Toy Pistol Local Governance in Hambantota
Image courtesy Nidahasa The country woke up a few days ago to news that a group of opposition UNP MPs on a fact finding visit to the new airport and port in…
The Rajapaksa ‘Sangamaya’: Creating employees and customers of citizens
Image from Lanka Standard The following video features the last couple of a minutes of a longer speech delivered by Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama at the launch of ) on 21st December 2012….
Quo Vadis, the Conga Line?
When Sri Lanka vied for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, there was a telling photograph taken at one of the bashes the regime threw in the Caribbean, the culminating event of a labour…
