Will Sri Lanka become another Haiti?
Before answering this we need to know a little about Haiti & what happened to it to draw parallels with Sri Lanka. The question is relevant because people are talking about the likelihood of...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 18th June 2022
Before answering this we need to know a little about Haiti & what happened to it to draw parallels with Sri Lanka. The question is relevant because people are talking about the likelihood of...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 15th June 2022
It is legal to protest but there are restrictions. Are protestors aware of the restrictions? If not, the onus is on the Sri Lankan Govt, the Sri Lankan Police to clearly make public...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 12th June 2022
There was no term called Dravidian until a British missionary arriving in India in 1838 created it to serve several agendas of the Church. The next 40 years was spent in converting Hindu...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of Media / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 11th June 2022
Colonization was when people were sent to occupy territories and claim them as their own drawing artificial borders and christening them with artificial names. Neo-colonialism prevailed using international systems created by the colonials. Digital...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 8th June 2022
. Communication is the key to everything and anything – be in tv, internet, cinema, magazines, newspapers, direct mail, sms or even the telephone, media yields power both visually and auditory. This power is...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 29th April 2022
What exactly is the problem or problems Sri Lanka is faced with? Who can solve them? What are the solutions protestors have given? Are protestors representative of the whole of Sri Lanka? Can protests...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 5th April 2022
Sri Lanka is experiencing an unprecedent state of events. Taken as a whole, there is much to analyze. Sri Lanka has seen governance pass from one colored party to another. Opportunistic politics...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 28th March 2022
This news is upsetting for several reasons as there are many Sri Lankans who selflessly defended the nation with their own funding in the halls of Geneva against the lying machine of the LTTE...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 15th March 2022
Sri Lanka is $35billion in debt. It is a debt that did not happen overnight. It is a debt that IMF will not solve & cannot solve. Taking loans without a plan...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 15th March 2022
If we judge Sri Lanka’s economic development vis a vis the western loans & expert economic advisors our story is quite bleak. We have had countless economic gurus claiming to be the know-it-alls...