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For four straight days, a House seemingly more divided than ever debated the violent events from the preceding week. On Tuesday, the government moved the adjournment debate on the “damages caused to public and private properties due to recent riots”. What was initially supposed to be a two-day debate continued into Friday with many MPs [...]
Jumping jacks and testing times
My dear Harin, I thought I must write to you, not to congratulate you on your appointment as a Cabinet minister – because that is not an achievement to be proud of – but just to convey to you what people are feeling about the political drama that is being staged while they continue to [...]
Only luxury vehicles welcome at the PM’s office
The guards at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) have been so used to opening their gates for luxury vehicles to come in. Last week when one of the old, somewhat clapped out vehicles drove up to the gate, the guards chose to ignore the vehicle assuming it was a vehicle which should not be allowed [...]
Government politicos fall victims to politicisation set in motion by the 20th Amendment
The unprecedented economic crisis that the country is facing has made even those who showed a disinterest in politics and public affairs to sit up and take notice. The consequences of colossal mismanagement in governance has spared no one and all sections of society have been affected. At the risk of being repetitive it needs [...]
Rescuing the country’s perilous economy and stabilising it
The perilous state of the economy is evident from the scarcities of essential items. Shortages of food, fuel, fertiliser, and medicines have driven people to desperation, protests and violence. The country has no capacity to import these essential goods owing to the negligible amount of foreign reserves. Will the new leadership of Prime Minister Ranil [...]
Eyes wide shut; the subversive capture of the Sri Lankan state
Two extraordinary developments this week may be of interest to Sri Lanka watchers familiar with the decades-long subversive capture of the Constitutional State by agents of the Deep State. Casting aspersions on judicial officers entrusted with ‘protest cases’ First, the Bar Association of Sri Lanka’s expression of strongly worded concern to the Chief Justice and [...]
Ranil and his band of men to play all night on Titanic
It beggars belief how Ranil Wickremesinghe could assemble such a ragbag crew of adventurers, turncoats, and people-rejects – each high on patriotism and short on principles – and present, without a blush, the motley collection as his cabinet of ministers to lead Lanka’s renaissance out of the Rajapaksa dark ages. Looking more like a band [...]
So who says we have no money
This is the trouble when we have too many educated people scampering around bleating we are bankrupt, that soon we won’t be able to buy rice even at a price and all sorts of horror stories which are enough to give even those who voted for Gota (now known universally by that moniker after being [...]
As the economic crisis deepens, Rajapaksas split into two power centres
President’s initial orders not heeded by SDIG Tennakoon; “it‘s the president of the country telling you, stop this at once,” President yells at him Police Chief comes under fire, but he defends his position citing politicisation of the force Intelligence sources believe a full picture of May 9 attack may emerge if Yoshitha Rajapaksa is [...]
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