A year after the leftist National People’s Power (NPP) coalition won an unprecedented supermajority in Sri Lanka’s November 2024 parliamentary elections—with support from both the majority Sinhala ...
Neither did the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)- led NPP’s manifesto provide concrete answers to that question. Mr Dissanayake also stated, unsurprisingly so given the JVP’s historical enmity towards ...
By the time this column appears, days after Finance Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake, also the president of Sri Lanka among other portfolios, which has now become a habit of incoming heads of state, ...
In May 1987 an attack by the armed forces on the LTTE stronghold of Vadamarachi in Jaffna took place under the leadership of two of Sri Lanka’s best generals, General Denzil Kobbekaduwe and General ...
Sri Lankan rulers, whether indigenous or European, used soldiers from India in addition to local levies. This was due to a ...
It must have been a long ‘senior moment’ on my part because I never got the memo. Growing up the son of an editor, foreign correspondent and expert on world affairs, I picked up the practice of ...
The 1915 riots in Ceylon were triggered by the Supreme Court’s judgment in February 1915 related to a long-standing dispute over a Buddhist religious procession (perahera) in Gampola.
At a diplomatic reception held in Vienna in the 1960s, British Foreign Minister George Brown sat in his chair enjoying a ...
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