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With the Government plunging from one crisis to another and calls for “Go Home Gota” and “Go Home Rajapaksas” increasing each day, pressure keeps piling on Sri Lanka’s first family. No doubt conscious of the groundswell of anger against the Rajapaksas, one-time Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa has been going to great lengths to position himself [...]
To go or not to go?
My dear Mahinda maama, I thought I must write to you after hearing that various people are writing letters asking you to resign. It must be a difficult time for you when you see these people, who you brought into politics and nurtured when they were political babies, now being bold enough to call for [...]
Vistas of adversity and deprivation as political crisis deepens
This May Day is indeed a red-letter day. The protests against the ruling family will reach a crescendo. Protestors from all over the country are expected to converge at Galle Face opposites the Presidential Secretariat to join the people’s protest and demand that the Rajapaksas resign and go. Uncertain At mid-week there is no certainty [...]
‘The people’s roar’ 2022 versus the Rajapaksa state
There is a trace of helplessness and more than a touch of cruel ridicule to dramatic protest scenes being played out this week in front of Temple Trees, the official residence of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. The State has become a satire The loud chanting of ‘pirith’ by Buddhist monks on megaphones to [...]
Rajapaksas clutch at straws in last political death throes
What the nation is witnessing today is the Rajapaksa brothers in their political death throes, feebly clutching at straws to stall the certain doom the fates have preordained for them. The people have delivered their message in no uncertain terms: They must go. The longer they hold out, the longer they prolong Lanka’s agony. The [...]
Things fall apart and the rot sets in
Okay, so troubles lie ahead. We have a government of sorts and a cabinet that is out of sorts. As though we are not a bankrupt nation we appoint ministers and state ministers as if they are imperative to national resuscitation and there is enough money to splash on such a third eleven. From where [...]
Back to square one as country struggles to face grave economic crisis
There is no need to state the obvious. But sometimes it has to be stated at least as a reminder to those who govern as well as to other stakeholders. The country is in a deep economic crisis with the ‘sovereign people ‘ bearing the brunt of the difficulties in the form of runaway inflation, [...]
Premier Mahinda in or out as moves take shape to form interim govt.
MR says President has not asked and will not ask him to quit, but Sirisena tells different story Talks on new govt. distract public attention from public revolt and soaring cost of living Even if President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is yet to tell Sri Lankans how he will provide uninterrupted supplies of electricity, fuel, [...]
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