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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Aside from articles appearing last Sunday in the ran a story on how Bell Pottinger had written the President’s speech to the UN after the end of the war in 2009. The…
[Editors note: The author is at the time of writing, the head of the Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Municipal Council (SJKMC) campaign committee for the UNP. .] First impressions of Kotte: Similar concerns among dissimilar people…
Anna Hazare, courtesy Injustices.in Foundation It was just last week that the BBC featured a documentary describing the post war atrocities committed against vulnerable Tamil women in the north and east who…
caught up with TNA Member of Parliament Suresh Premachandran, who spoke to us about the nature of election violations that occurred in the Northern Province prior to the 23rd of July and…