Why Sri Lanka & Sri Lankans are in a stalemate!
We may have a literacy rate of over 90% but majority of the citizens in particular those holding key positions in both private & public sector are clueless of geopolitics & historical linkages to...
Category: Chartering Our Future
India prevented food-fuel-medicines to Nepal in 2015 – Sri Lanka doesn’t learn lessons
How many are aware of the 2015 economic embargo imposed by India on Nepal simply because Nepal was including clauses in its new constitution in September 2015 that India did not like! It...
Where did Mahinda Rajapakse go wrong for himself & the Nation?
Two stand out leaders of post-independence remains without a doubt Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike & Mahinda Rajapakse. Mrs. B was clear in her policy of non-alignment & pivotal decisions taken against western interests resulted in...
Will IMF/WB ruin rice production in Sri Lanka as it did in Haiti
There are a few things Sri Lanka & Haiti have in common – that is production of rice. Within 20 years Haiti turned from a self-sufficient rice producing country to one having to import...
India’s annexation of Sikkim & Lessons for Sri Lanka
Recently, Dr. Wasantha Bandara declared that Sri Lanka was fast on its way to becoming the 29th State of India on the lines of what happened to Sikkim. Obviously, many may be unaware of...
South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission was a waste of Tax Payers money – so will Sri Lanka’s!
Any truth & reconciliation commission that shies from exposing the true players who trained, armed and funded militancy in Sri Lanka as well as provide covert & overt support that led to the 3...
The deal behind giving land ownership certificate to Sri Lanka’s farmers
The Govt PR channels and clueless politicians are not surprisingly going to town about the magnanimous gesture about farmers getting deed ownership to lands that were given to them by the State as a...
අශුද්ධ සන්ධානය: JVP-NPP නායකයා, ඇමරිකාවේ නවතම දේශපාලන පෙම්වතා
අද ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ, රෝහණ විජේවීරගේ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ නොවේ. එය 1972 සහ 1980 ගණන්වල කැරලිවලින් දිවිගලවා ගත් අයත් එකඟ වනු නොඅනුමානය. අද ඔවුන්ගෙන් බොහෝ දෙනෙක් කලකිරීමට පත්ව සිටිති, ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවිතයේ හොඳම කාලයඔවුන්ව...
Unholy alliance: AKD – America’s newest political “sweetheart” in Sri Lanka
The JVP-plugged NPP is not the JVP that Rohana Wijeweera created. The rank & file of those that survived insurrections in 1972 and 1980s will no doubt agree. Many of these today feel...
Blinken without blinking says “Collateral damage” is to be expected in Israeli-Hamas standoff – Sri Lanka says “Oh really”!
The Israeli-Hamas standoff strangely has many bedfellows suddenly entering the scene & we cannot but highlight the hypocrisies at play on how the UN/UNHRC & international community reacted to Sri Lanka’s efforts against...
