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Like the Arab Spring, Male Spring ousts Nasheed

The telephone operator at the switchboard of Janadipathi Mandiraya felt the sense of urgency when a female voice asked to speak to first lady, Shiranthi Rajapaksa last Thursday morning. The caller explained she was a friend and it related to on-going developments in the Maldives.

5th Column

Oh Nasheed, you shouldn’t have made those mistakes

My Dear Mohamed Nasheed,

I thought that I must write to you after learning that you are no longer the President of the Maldives and that you had been suddenly ousted in what you call a coup. After all, we are used to Maldivian presidents usually holding office for thirty years and we expected you to do the same!

The Economic Analysis

Changing economic scenarios: Economic liberalisation 1977-1994

The economic reforms introduced in November 1977 were a sharp break from the previous economic regime. The new policies transformed a closed, tightly-controlled inward looking economy pursued from 1970 to 1977 into a market-oriented, outward looking one.

Lobby

Not issued on this week

Focus on Rights

The core of power has to change

In the morass of confusion worse compounded that Sri Lanka currently finds itself in regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), it is important to reiterate and underscore certain valid truths.

Talk at the Cafe Spectator

Lankan mission bruises Lee

Matthew Russell Lee, an Inner City Press blogger covering the United Nations, is a longstanding critic of the Rajapaksa administration and continues to badger both the Sri Lanka mission and UN spokesman Martin Nesirky firing a volley of questions virtually every day -- relating mostly to allegations of war crimes and human rights violations by the government and the country's armed forces.

From the sidelines

Maldives coup - too close to call?

The unexpected ouster of Mohamed Nasheed from the presidency of the Maldives last week seems to have stirred the collective conscience of people in the region and beyond.