Choking to Death on Dirty Air
Аir pollution is the single greatest environmental risk to human health and one of the main avoidable causes of death and disease globally, with some estimated 6.5 million premature deaths attributed to…
Politics and Governance
The Economic Crisis: Where We Are and Can We Get Out of It?
The 2019 Presidential Elections were held on November 16, 2019. The election was hard fought and many promises were made by the different campaigns. This article analyzes the economic situation the country…
Strengthening the Health System to Face Emerging Threats
Sri Lanka faced significant health threats due to the pandemic and is attempting to regain a sense of normalcy, along with the rest of the world. The country’s challenges have been made…
Analysis of the Ranil Wickremesinghe Presidency
On May 12, 2022 the world and the nation was surprised by the appointment of Ranil Wickremasinghe as prime minister of Sri Lanka. Mr. Wickremesinghe’s appointment was historic; it was the sixth…
Gota At Home
“Gota go home” the Aragalaya demanded. Now, fifty odd days after going abroad instead, he has returned, to a garland and a motorcade, to bodyguards and decoy cars, to a house…
Income and Wealth Inequality in Sri Lanka
Increasing inequality is a political and economic issue affecting countries across the world and has been a pervasive feature of modern society. Inequality can be categorized into income and wealth inequality.This class/income…
An Analysis of the Wickremesinghe-Gunewardena Government
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis continues with no indication that it is going to be resolved anytime soon. The rupee has rapidly depreciated and the people’s protests are growing throughout the country and…
Anti-Regime Protests: Causes and Effects
Sri Lanka was recently struck by a wave of mass protests and demonstrations throughout the country, which began because of the economic and political crisis. The protests were extremely effective. Protestors stormed…
Urgent Legal Reforms Needed to Deal with Unidentified Bodies
Hiru News Over the last two months, six unidentified bodies have washed up on the shores of the Western Province creating fear and suspicion of a new trend of targeted violence. The…
Decriminalising Consensual Same-sex Sexual Relations: Amendments Versus Repeal
In a major development in the human rights arena, SLPP parliamentarian and lawyer Premanath C. Dolawatte handed over a private member’s bill to President Ranil Wickremesinghe seeking to amend laws that marginalise…
Rule of Law in Sri Lanka: A Farce or a Reality?
The rule of law is a complex and critical principle of governance. The late Thomas Bingham, a Supreme Court Judge in the United Kingdom, wrote a prominent book on the rule of…
Paying Attention to the Voices That Will Not Be Silenced
As the world marks another International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, in Sri Lanka, which has the second highest number of forcibly disappeared in the world after Iraq, families of…
Performance Art and Political Protest
Performance art is an offshoot of visual arts where the artist uses his or her body as a medium of communication. Performance art has always been interconnected with society and politics. Artists…
Stability Versus the Social Contract
Order and stability have been the key words defining the early days of the Wickremesinghe presidency. They are touted as being the mantra that will set Sri Lanka on the path to…
Free the People
We will not be distracted. The emotion rushes through us like a river enraged, if a river, or a fault line, the heating jet stream, if these can be given human volition,…