A word from an academic to the new Government
Let me first congratulate President Mr. Maithripala Sirisena and the elections commissioner Mr. Mahinda Deshapriya for bringing such an honor to Sri Lanka from across the Globe for the high standard of…
Elections
Archives of General Election 2015: #SLGE15 & #GenElecSL
Over eight weeks, archived every single tweet tagged with either #SLGE15 or #GenElecSL. Once a week throughout the campaign period, these archives were released over Twitter for anyone to browse through or…
Letter by President Maithripala Sirisena to Mahinda Rajapaksa
### Dear Mr. Mahinda Rajapasksa, I am writing to you today, in my capacity as the chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the leading single political party in the United…
NO WAY, MR. RAJAPAKSA
Photo by AP Photo/Sanka Gayashan, via Japan Times A slogan from one of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s campaign websites for tomorrow’s election reads, “Let’s start afresh”. Looking at it harder, the slogan is as…
I believe
I believe in human equality more than national security I believe in an unstable democracy more than a stable dictatorship I believe in social justice more than the creation of wealth I…
Parliamentary Elections and the Political Emancipation of Sri Lanka
As, in private life, the distinction is made between what a man thinks of himself and says, and that which he really is and does, so, all the more, must the phrases…
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 VISION THING: WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY ARE WE VOTING FOR?
Photo AP Photo/Sujeewa Kumar via The phrase ‘regime-change’ is often used to describe the dramatic result of the presidential election on 8th January 2015, both in the sense of a democratic change of…
Citizens should decide carefully after weighing the pros and cons
The Parliamentary election is getting closer. The submission of nominations has been completed. Voters look on with surprise at the antics of some candidates. Some people are confused due to views expressed…
General Election 2015 Pre Election Opinion Poll – Top Line Report
Social Indicator, the survey research unit of the Centre for Policy Alternatives conducted an island wide pre election opinion poll with the objective of identifying Sri Lankan voter perceptions and attitudes on…
Mahinda Rajapaksa cannot become Prime Minister
The question whether ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa is eligible to be appointed to the Prime Minister’s post if he has the support of a majority of members in Parliament following the August 17…
The Freak Show Returns
Image courtesy The UPFA’s election campaign is based on Four Ignoble Lies: Sri Lanka and all true-born Lankans are suffering; the reason for this suffering is the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa on…
UNP creates broad front while UPFA leads a retreat to the past
Photo courtesy Fatalnews As nominations closed earlier this week, the contours of the battle lines for the general election to Parliament became clear. The two major political formations in the country, the…
A Fifty of a Hundred Days to Few, or too Many?
Image courtesy A former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson made the oft- quoted remark that a week is a long time in politics. What then of fifty days, not to mention a…
Beating the Communal Drum by Hardcore Sinhala Nationalists
Photo courtesy Daily FT Yesterday’s rally in Nugegoda organised by the hard-core Sinhala nationalists, i.e. Weerawansa, Dinesh, Gammanpila and Vasudeva with the blessings of former President Mahinda Rajapakse and their pseudo intellectual…
