F*** You, Mr. President
Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images, taken off Middle East Institute In what must surely count as one of the most hilarious, unintentionally ironic and terrifying proclamations ever uttered by a…
Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images, taken off Middle East Institute In what must surely count as one of the most hilarious, unintentionally ironic and terrifying proclamations ever uttered by a…
President Rajapaksa dissolved the Parliament on 2nd March 2020– six months before the due date, amidst the growing danger of COVID-19 pandemic. By this time, the uncertainty relating to the possibility of…
Photo courtesy The COVID-19 crisis took hold in Sri Lanka at a time when Parliament stood dissolved ahead of a general election. The gravity of the public health emergency, and what it…
The Catholic Church in the tiny village of Iranapalei in the Mullaitheevu district was lit up with 1000 lamps yesterday, 18th May. The thousand lamps were to remember the tens of thousands,…
Book Review – Phil Miller, Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who got away with War Crimes, (Pluto Press, 2020) Eleven years ago, in May 2009, the Sri Lankan security forces decisively defeated…
Photo courtesy The Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant shutdown of social and community life has meant that the political debate and dialogue in Sri Lanka, has moved from more traditional forms of…
Photo via To date in Sri Lanka 9 persons are said to have died of Covid-19 and out of these 4 are Muslims. At least 02 of these victims’ families believe their…
Photo by Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via Getty Images from It is a modern morality tale about the dangers of misusing the military, of militarising civilian tasks, of expecting generals to handle pandemics. By…
Photo credit AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena via The postponement of the General Elections 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic has led to different viewpoints being expressed on the legal position. The focus…
Photo by AP via ABC News The threefold crisis that our country faces— public health, the constitutional, and political—is exacerbating day by day. In the latest development, a number of soldiers of the…
Photo credit AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena via The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the lives of people in Sri Lanka and across the globe. The President and the Minister of Health have given leadership…
Photo by AP via ABC News I refer to the ’s two pieces yesterday on the same topic. I am in “Lockdown” in Jaffna and write on my own as a Member…
Two significant incidents took place on 26 March 2020. Sri Lanka recorded 102 confirmed Covid-19 patients; and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa granted a presidential pardon to Sunil Rathnayake, former Army Staff Sergeant and…
‘What physicians say about consumptive illness is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognised…
Image courtesy AFP/Times of India quoted police spokesman S P Jaliya Senaratne as saying. Senarante I congratulate you. Your diction is pithy, succinct, commendable on all counts. And how sweeping you…