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Last Thursday, Deputy External Affairs Minister Neomal Perera called on Denis Pietton, Cabinet Director of the French Foreign Ministry in Paris. Sri Lanka’s Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleke was on hand sporting what appeared to be an oversized satakay, or shawl, not quite of the Mahinda Rajapaksa kurakkan hue but of the Fidel Castro red. Who else [...]
Indo-Lanka ties near breaking point; Moves to repeal 13th Amendment
A deal brokered by India for the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to engage in a dual track dialogue with the government, revealed exclusively in the Sunday Times of October 7, has run into serious problems. One such track was to be the resumption of the bilateral talks between the Government and the TNA. The other [...]
Alone on the field of an uphill battle
My Dear SF, I thought I must write to you when I heard that you had launched a campaign to abolish the executive presidency and had held your first meeting this week. It was good to see you back in the news-especially because we were not seeing you getting in and out of a prison [...]
Hard times and emerging challenges
This year has been one of the toughest for the economy. Global conditions have affected the economy at a time when nature has been unkind too. At such times of external and internal shocks the country has to either depend on using its reserves or get into foreign debt. Unfortunately the country has to face [...]
Pistol whipping justice in Sri Lanka
There is little doubt that the casual dismantling of Sri Lanka’s democratic institutions, as much as a pack of cards is routinely shuffled by seasoned card players, calls for deeply reflective thinking rather than shotgun reactions. Necessity for a collective cathartic process Indulging in outbursts of fury against the administration and predicting regime change, as [...]