Trump’s First Victims
Image courtesy PRINCETON – When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I did not join those who took to the streets in protest. I thought it important to respect…
International Relations
Fidel and the Rock of Resistance
Photo courtesy Miami Herald According to an ancient Chinese musical treatise (written in the second century BCE), when any of the five notes in the Chinese pentatonic scale turns disharmonious, disorder results…
Yester-Years: The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and The Cuban Revolution
In the 1950s, Cuban revolutionaries launched their July 26 Movement () to get rid of foreign domination and economic injustice. In 1952, Fulgencio Batista launched a coup d’etat, which made the Cuban…
What Trump’s Win Teaches Sri Lanka
Photograph from NBC News Donald Trump’s surprising electoral victory last week gives us Americans a lot to think about. One takeaway is particularly relevant for Sri Lanka. Over the last eight years,…
Who’s Afraid of Donald Trump? | America Elects a Fact-Free President
### America Elects a Fact-Free President In the presidential election this week, US voters just elected an unorthodox, unlikely and unpredictable head of state. There are many ways of analysing this result….
Looking beyond the Trump–Clinton duel: The nightmares of American exceptionalism
The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America. –Russ Feingold The run-up to the American Election…
Brexit through the eyes of a new British citizen
Featured image courtesy IBTimes On the day Britain found out that it chose to leave the EU, I became British. It was supposed to be a special day for me. After 5…
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….
The Struggle for Freedom in India
In early January, as part of his much hyped ‘Make in India’ agenda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the ‘Start-Up India’ initiative. This ode to venture capitalism is but a complement to…
Prospect of a ‘President Trump’! Proving a Nightmare to US and Beyond
Featured image courtesy Newsweek When the power or authority comes in the hands of unfit persons, then wait for the Hour (End of times) – Prophet of Islam SAW quoted in Bukhari…
Future of the United States interactions in the South Asian Region
Picture courtesy SriLankaBrief At the turn of the new millennium, South Asia emerged as a region of tremendous international concern. And the South Asian region’s strategic geographical location was important in terms…
Red Lines documentary screening & discussion
invites you to a screening of the award winning documentary ‘Red Lines’ on Tuesday, 15th December 2015, from 5 – 7.30pm at the LKIRRSS auditorium, 24, Horton Place, Colombo 7. The screening…
Death penalty in Islam
Featured image courtesy TheDailyJournalist Many Muslims I have spoken to are opposed to the death sentence imposed on the unnamed Sri Lankan housemaid in Saudi Arabia. The death penalty, in my view,…
The Leaders of this Country and a Nameless Dying Woman
Featured image courtesy Al Jazeera The Citizens Demand the Right to know As citizens of Sri Lanka we know only two facts about the Nameless Dying Woman in Saudi Arabia. One, that…
Progress and Backsliding
Photo via by AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena Rizana Nafeek was the first Lankan woman to be executed in Saudi Arabia. She was beheaded after a questionable trial. Now a second Lankan woman is…