Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd August 2025
The recent statement by casino tycoon Lawrence Ho that “Sri Lanka can be India’s Macau” is not just careless — it is dangerous on multiple fronts: political, economic, cultural, and strategic. Undermining Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty Calling Sri Lanka “India’s...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 31st July 2025
India’s strategic colonization of Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province—centered around Trincomalee—is not a coincidence but the result of decades-long encirclement through war, diplomacy, economics, and cultural erasure. What began as military intervention in the 1980s...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th July 2025
In just five months, the JVP-NPP-led government under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake signed 35 agreements with India — the largest, fastest foreign policy shift in Sri Lanka’s post-independence history. What was promised as a new era...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th July 2025
To the leadership of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its political alliance, the National People’s Power (NPP): You rose to power on the promise of sovereignty, accountability, national dignity, and liberation from external control—both...
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 / 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...
