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Corruption, Groundviews at 10, Issues, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Good Governance and Corruption

Featured image courtesy Al Jazeera Good Governance is a key challenge Sri Lanka has faced and spectacularly failed to deliver for most of its modern history. This challenge is not only about…

Lionel Bopage Lionel Bopage on 01/31/201701/31/2017
Issues, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Yahapaalanaya Lapses: Is Mahinda the option for Muslims?

Former Minister, Speaker and National List nominee Parliamentarian A H M Azwer along with a few other Mahinda loyalists claim that . Azwer claims that there are 38 complaints from Muslims about damage to…

Hilmy Ahamed Hilmy Ahamed on 01/19/201701/19/2017
Issues, Long Reads, Politics and Governance

Understanding the current regime

Soon it will be two years since the election of President Sirisena. His victory was consolidated in the general election held in August 2015. There was a lot of euphoria when this…

Sunil Bastian Sunil Bastian on 01/04/2017
International, Issues, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

Corbyn’s Classic Win: A Global Inspiration To Political Underdogs

Featured image courtesy the Huffington Post  “It’s all about conventional wisdom: The powers that be decide early on who is going to win, and they don’t want their narrative disturbed.”- Koenen The…

Lukman Harees Lukman Harees on 10/03/201610/03/2016
Issues, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Mixed feelings one year on

One year ago, on August 18, a new Parliament was elected on an ambitious premise of good governance. The public voted for change, and for an ambitious overhaul of the status quo….

Groundviews Groundviews on 08/22/201608/24/2016
Economy, Issues, Politics and Governance

A Rudderless Government

Featured image courtesy Colombo Gazette Almost 15 months under the present Sirisena-Wickremesinghe rule, the economy is in no good state. Defeating Rajapaksa at the 2015 January 08 presidential polls was not meant…

Kusal Perera Kusal Perera on 03/21/2016
Constitutional Reform, Economy, Issues, Politics and Governance

Some thoughts on current orthodoxies

Featured image courtesy SriLankaBrief The year 2009 is important for the post-colonial history of Sri Lanka, because in that year the most serious armed challenge to the territorial integrity of the country…

Sunil Bastian Sunil Bastian on 03/14/201603/28/2016
Issues, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Mr. President, Its outright Racism.

Featured image courtesy Yahoo News President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s decade long era of governance saw unprecedented racism and hate against the minority communities in Sri Lanka.  The Bodu Bala Sena and other Buddhist…

Hilmy Ahamed Hilmy Ahamed on 03/09/201603/09/2016
Elections, Issues, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

One Year Of Yahapaalanaya: The Highs And Lows

Featured image courtesy Youtube On January 8, 2015, thousands flocked to Independence Square to watch Maithripala Sirisena take his Presidential vows. With his promise to promote or ‘good governance’ the atmosphere was…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/08/201601/09/2016
Elections, Issues, Politics and Governance

Yahapalanaya at One: When will our leaders ‘walk the talk’?

Featured image courtesy vivalanka.com I shared those words one year ago on Twitter and Facebook through a simple web meme. At the time, it was very much an aspiration, as we Lankans…

Nalaka Gunawardene Nalaka Gunawardene on 01/04/201601/04/2016
Corruption, Issues, Politics and Governance

Are we progressing towards Good Governance?

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…

Devanesan Nesiah Devanesan Nesiah on 11/20/201511/22/2015
Issues, Long Reads, Presidential Election 2015

Prospects for good governance and national reconciliation post the August 17th elections

Featured image courtesy Newsfirst. Leonard Cohen[1] Giuseppe di Lampedusa[2] The genesis of this paper was a recent trip we took to Lanka as election observers for the August parliamentary elections. During the…

Gaetano Greco and Michael Cooke Gaetano Greco and Michael Cooke on 11/17/201511/17/2015

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