Should India be given Colombo Port?
Colombo East Terminal is generating much controversy these days for reasons that should clearly showcase the need for a sovereign government to take a hold of the situation & uphold its sovereign status....
Category: Role of India
Credibility of the “War Witnesses”: Which version of Dr. Varatharaja do we believe now?
It is just as well that Dr. Varatharaja has taken to films. He certainly deserves the award for Best Actor. From reading of a script called Hippocratic Oath to serve humanity and practice...
Tamil nationalism, LTTE separatism and “West’s Eelam – who has now hijacked the pillow?
“I am a traitor to Tamils” A slipper garland – Jaffna (May 2020) Tamil nationalism bordering separatism was birthed by Tamil political leaders and not LTTE. LTTE only hijacked it as a camouflage to...
Balkanizing India: National Security dimensions for India & Sri Lanka
Indo-Sri Lanka relations have never been what either country would have liked it to be. What both countries should realize is that small as Sri Lanka may be, India cannot afford to bully...
MCC Nepal & Sri Lanka : Is MCC aligned to US Indo-Pacific Strategy?
Nepal & Sri Lanka share similarities. Both countries have appointed teams to study MCC. MCC was signed by Nepal in 2017 – the state of MCC Sri Lanka has been kept a...
To prevent balkanization of India – remove 13a in Sri Lanka
When US pivots to Asia as a strategy it means Americas political, diplomatic, trade, economic, cultural focus is all shifted to Asia, it also means, its associated alliances, partners, its covert/overt teams will all...
India claims Sri Lanka’s security challenges a threat to India. Who is a bigger threat to India – US or China?
The prima facie case for India to interfere in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs is to cite that any instability happening in Sri Lanka becomes an automatic national security threat to India. While the...
Chronology of Tamils taking firearms since 1950s
1956 – Tamil youth fire at army camp in Batticoloa. Sinhalese civilians shot at in Kalmunai 1961 – Tamil youth attack Sri Lankan soldiers in Jaffna 1961 – Tamil youth forms Pulip Padai (...
If India is sold Mattala-Galle-Palali-Trinco & Colombo will Sri Lanka be sovereign?
Governments are elected to power to protect the territorial integrity & sovereignty of a country not to sell it or privatize it to foreigners thereby reducing the country’s relevance globally as an independent &...
…And who looked after Prabakaran’s Parents?
India is getting its media to relay photos of Prabakaran’s dead son and interviewing Callum Macrae producer of the latest documentary tarnishing Sri Lanka’s image but has conveniently forgotten how India’s Central Government refused...
