Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attack & understanding Islamic Terrorism
On 21st April 2019 the people of Sri Lanka stood shocked. Exactly 10 years after defeating 30 years of terror Sri Lanka was to face a new form of terror. What is peculiar...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th April 2020
On 21st April 2019 the people of Sri Lanka stood shocked. Exactly 10 years after defeating 30 years of terror Sri Lanka was to face a new form of terror. What is peculiar...
Chartering Our Future / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 14th April 2020
This refers to your letter addressed to the Sri Lankan President H E Gotabaya Rajapakse. It is unfortunate that you have been misinformed leading to you writing to a country’s President and exposing your...
Chartering Our Future / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / UN & Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 3rd April 2020
Coronavirus does not discriminate. It treats all equally. Rich-poor-Old-young, it doesn’t care if you live in West-East, North-South, the virus doesn’t care whether you are Sinhalese Tamil Muslim or Burgher or whether you are...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 10th March 2020
The Gunaruwan Committee handed its supplementary report on the MCC to both the President & Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on 17th February 2020 and had made some recommendations and comments that should...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 5th February 2020
People belong to the Land. Land doesn’t belong to the People. Land belongs to the State of Sri Lanka & no one else. Who owns Sri Lanka’s land? No one else but Sri Lanka....
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 3rd February 2020
What do we think we are celebrating on 4th February every year? Our independence from colonial rule. But did we really get independence on 4th February 1948? We didn’t because we became by choice a dominion...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th November 2019
Sri Lanka re-reversed a regime change orchestrated in January 2015 which spiraled Sri Lanka towards a wave of catastrophic changes unbeknown to most, outcomes which will be felt only as the new administration now...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th October 2019
Without a doubt this is a crucial election. Sri Lanka is going to elect its 7th President who is also the Head of State and the Head of the Armed Forces. The President has...
Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 21st October 2019
Who are the people tasked to listen to grievances? A government & its apparatus, society groups, the courts at local level and then at international levels – the UN, international organizations etc. These entities...
To answer that question, it is essential to first know how successful Mrs. B was in her foreign diplomacy and a comparison of the periods and scenarios during her rule and that which...