http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:56:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/columns/jaishankars-lanka-visit-on-short-notice-as-modis-special-envoy-underscores-powerful-geopolitical-message-626133.html 28 December 2025 @ 12:10 am lt;ul gt; lt;li gt; lt;strong gt;Govt. caught unawares; Herath rushes from Parliament to foreign office to answer phone call from Delhi lt;/strong gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;strong gt;Events during the visit show it is India nbsp; lt;/strong gt; lt;strong gt;in control, with an underprepared Sri Lankan side remaining largely silent lt;/strong gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;strong gt; nbsp;... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/columns/predictable-predicament-626127.html 28 December 2025 @ 12:06 am lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;My dear Vraie, lt;/p gt; I thought of writing to you after hearing that the first budget of the lsquo; lt;em gt;maalimaawa lt;/em gt; rsquo; chaps at the CMC was defeated by 3 votes. You spoke after that, close to tears, telling your fellow councillors that what was really defeated was not the lsquo; lt;em gt;maalimaawa lt;/e... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/columns/rebuilding-after-cyclone-ditwah-the-case-for-a-nationally-united-effort-under-the-disaster-management-act-626060.html 27 December 2025 @ 10:16 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;The National People rsquo;s Power (NPP) Government assumed office under exceptionally difficult circumstances. It inherited an economy that had been driven to collapse by the policies and mismanagement of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) administration that assumed office in 2019. nbsp; nbsp; lt;img class= quot;alignright ... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/columns/tamil-politicos-warn-jaishankar-over-pakistani-and-chinese-presence-in-north-626047.html 27 December 2025 @ 10:00 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt; lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-626049 quot; title= quot;cafe-spectator quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/251228/uploads/2025/12/cafe-spectator3.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;260 quot; height= quot;116 quot; / gt;When India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar visited the country this week, hi... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/columns/bitter-end-to-a-year-of-economic-stabilisation-and-growth-625988.html 27 December 2025 @ 8:20 pm There could not have been a more cruel and devastating end to this year of financial stabilisation and economic growth than the devastation and destruction caused by Cyclone Ditwah on November 29. The catastrophe tends to make one describe this year too as another annus horribilis (a horrible year). In fact, it was a year of economic stability and growth until Ditwah struck. lt;strong gt;Ec... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/columns/terrorism-versus-civil-liberties-the-npps-clear-betrayal-of-campaign-promises-625984.html 27 December 2025 @ 8:16 pm President Anura Kumara Dissaayake rsquo;s determination to lsquo;repeal and replace rsquo; Sri Lanka rsquo;s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) with a law that balances security concerns and civil liberties for lsquo;rights focused governance rsquo; was explained in great detail when interviewed by Newsweek earlier this month. lt;strong gt;Legitimate alarm over the PSTA lt;img class= quot;ali... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/columns/no-balloons-for-christmas-this-year-625969.html 27 December 2025 @ 8:10 pm I was nicely snuggled up on my sofa watching another episode of my favourite comedy series for the year, when I heard a loud incessant banging on my door. I feared it would break down my door. lsquo;Okay, okay, I rsquo;m coming, I rsquo;m coming, rsquo; I yelled over the TV din, lsquo;no need to break the door. rsquo; As I got up from the sofa, I realised I had been so enwrapt in my comedy... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/251228/columns/where-do-we-go-from-here-left-right-or-who-knows-625966.html 27 December 2025 @ 8:08 pm Surely not Left. Our NPP leader left it some time ago, and now it would seem he has ditched it altogether. Now I hear no Marxist ideology belting from some social media machine. Not now anyway, when the serving spoon is very much in his hand, as our charismatic one-time Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala used to remind his cabinet and friends. Well, anyway, he is too busy distributing larges...