United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s victory in Wednesday’s Parliamentary vote for the election of the President was a victory for the Rajapaksas as well. With this victory Wickremesinghe saved the Rajapaksas from being push

With Sri Lankans focusing their attention on the unprecedented and historic public uprising, which forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and resign and Parliament on Wednesday electing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as Presiden

Sri Lanka needs plenty of solutions to its economic woes more than an election, but Wednesday’s voting that took place to elect....

For his admirers, Ranil Wickremesinghe is the president Sri Lanka has lost and found. The late former minister Mangala Samaraweera....

At the time of writing, there are disparate reports of the whereabouts of Gotabaya Rajapaksa; somewhere in the UAE, Saudi Arabia or Singapore,

Ranil Wickremesinghe is no longer president in an acting capacity. He is the president, period. Did someone say ‘I don’t know whether to laugh or cry?’ I am pretty sure someone did.

Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who even at the height of the political and economic crisis and his rapidly dwindling popularity,

Our country has proved itself to be an exceptional. Just this month alone, ‘we, the people’ peacefully and bloodlessly.....

What is transpiring in Sri Lanka now, is unprecedented. A constitutional scheme which in its default mode, was supposed to select it‘s Executive...

Tomorrow, the country is going to see a new President. Parliament is scheduled to accept nominations today from the members of it for the Parliamentary election for the Presidency that has fallen vacant following the resignation o

Sri Lanka is ailing due to a lack of visionary and strategic leadership on one hand and the culmination of the citizens’ agitation on the other. I grieve when I think of the deaths of Lalith Athulathmudali Gamini Dissanayake and Lakshm

Sri Lanka encountered several turning points in the last four decades that could have produced sustainable development as an island nation. The first instance was the 1977 political change which gave a 5/6 majority. The second in

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is already in the dustbin of history. The reason why he delayed handing over his letter of resignation? He’s not planning a dramatic comeback as some conspiracy....

Gotabaya resigned and fled the country for Singapore, Arjuna Mahendran’s safe haven, that, the then President Sirisena’s plea in 2017 [remember 20,000 signatures] for the swindler’s extradition....

Lankan society is at a critical juncture. A number of crucial issues have converged at the same time. Our Government is indebted to the tune of US$51 billion to international financial institutions and is unable...

Sri Lanka is facing a crisis which is essentially a crisis of governance. It is mainly due to political and financial mismanagement. It has led to an economic crisis and if we are to come out of it we should resolve....

“Gota Go Home” was the clarion call around which the people launched their “Aragalaya” or Struggle. It has achieved its primary goal.

The government which earlier retreated in the face of the people’s uprising against it now seems to have determined to take the bull by the horns and defeat it. It is not clear if this is the result of the government exhausting its patience or the

If conflicts could be settled by friendly dialogue instead of war or violence, then what a wonderful world we would be in.

If Sri Lanka was crying now she is bleeding. This is because the Aragalaya is now pushing the country’s peaceful protest to a human....

People’s power is democracy and democracy is people’s power. Yet these notions which underscore that sovereignty lies in the people....

Former MP Hirunika Premachandra has made headlines over the recent past as she has led several protests with the participation....

I write (the time is 12.09 pm, on Wednesday) at a time when there is a remarkable and unprecedented lack of political clarity in the country.

Politicians, who no sooner elected to Parliament tend to forget they are obligated to serve the people but end up serving themselves,

As of now Sri Lanka has run out of fuel. According to the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) sources fuel reserves have completely....

On June 6, 1956, the day the ‘Sinhala Only’ Bill was introduced by the then Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike in Parliament, the Federal....

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is set to become the first of many things. The first executive president of Sri Lanka to be chased out of power....

One may not be happy with the dramatic turn of events that occurred over the weekend, but he/she has to accept it to be the reality. No amount of restrictions by the authorities were able to prevent the people form converging in Colombo on Saturday a

In developing countries, there is a deep-set notion that political leadership is the key to good governance and economic progress. For example, in Sri Lanka now, most people believe that a change in the political leadership will magi

My steadfast iron horse’s wheels are so keen on kissing the gravel paths. Nostalgia for that bygone time took me down memory lane six decades. ‘Country roads, take me home; To the....