Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th July 2025
Beyond bilateral cooperation, the 35 Indo-Lanka agreements signed from Dec 2024 to April 2025 raise serious geopolitical, strategic, and national security implications. Sri Lanka now finds itself entangled in India’s broader ambitions—from energy corridors and religious soft...
Chartering Our Future / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th July 2025
Since December 2024, the Anura Kumara Dissanayake government has signed or exchanged 35 bilateral agreements and MoUs with India, covering sensitive sectors such as defense, energy, ports, education, and digital surveillance. However, none of these...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th July 2025
Domestic Reactions and the Ideological U-Turn of the NPP-JVP Government. For decades, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)—and by extension, the National People’s Power (NPP)—stood as fiery critics of foreign influence, imperialism, neoliberalism, and foreign...
Chartering Our Future / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th July 2025
How India Could Leverage the 35 Agreements to Dominate Sri Lanka. While bilateral cooperation between nations is common in an increasingly interdependent world, the sheer volume, strategic scope, and opaque execution of the 35...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th July 2025
While the volume of agreements signed between President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government and the Modi administration marks an unprecedented acceleration in bilateral cooperation, the true significance lies in the strategic depth, structural implications, and...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Role of India
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th July 2025
A Landmark Shift in Bilateral Engagement or a Rapid Path to Strategic Overreach? Within just five months of assuming office, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake embarked on a historic recalibration of Sri Lanka’s foreign...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE Diaspora / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sinhale Buddhist Heritage
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th July 2025
The name “Eelam” was never Tamil in origin, nor did it denote a separate ethnic homeland. It is a historical term rooted in the identity of the Sinhalese — the island’s first and...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / LTTE Diaspora / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sinhale Buddhist Heritage / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 25th July 2025
Eelam — a word that triggered a 30-year conflict — must be urgently re-examined. The term “Tamil Eelam” has come to symbolize demands for a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka. But few...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 24th July 2025
The history of Sri Lanka is deeply intertwined with stories of its diverse peoples, among whom the Tamil community is one. Understanding the origins and arrival of Tamils in Sri Lanka is crucial—not...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE Diaspora / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd July 2025
The popular narrative around Sri Lanka’s conflict centers on 1983 — the so-called “Black July” — as the spontaneous ignition point for Tamil militancy. But this version of events is dangerously misleading. In...
