Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict: From Reconciliation To Reescalation – Analysis
The national discourse in Sri Lanka moved from conflict termination to reconciliation with the end of the war in 2009.
Read moreThe national discourse in Sri Lanka moved from conflict termination to reconciliation with the end of the war in 2009.
Read moreOne of the highlights of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s India visit last month was the agreement “to establish land connectivity between
Read moreMy new book, Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka: Presidential Elections, Manipulation, and Democracy, was published by Routledge (London) in July
Read moreSri Lanka’s long-awaited International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout finally came through. On March 20, 2023, the IMF approved three billion
Read moreSri Lanka has an election problem. In 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a political novice with no elected office experience, contested to
Read moreFinally, Sri Lanka’s eighth executive president Gotabaya Nandasena Rajapaksa resigned on July 14, 2022. It would not be fallacious to
Read moreOn May 9, Mahinda Rajapaksa met his supporters at the Temple Trees, the prime minister’s official residence, before stepping down.
Read moreSri Lanka’s economic crisis instigated a people’s protest against the government. The stated objective was a system change. The protest
Read moreSri Lanka slipped into an economic crisis with socio-political implications in March 2022. I have explained the crux of the
Read moreSri Lanka is in an unprecedented crisis. People are literally on the street for two reasons. One, they are queuing
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