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Following Sri Lanka’s disastrous exit from the Super Eight round of the World T20, social media has exploded with criticism and mockery of the country’s cricket team. The humiliating exit hurts all the more given that Sri Lanka is co-hosting the tournament with India, and had they qualified for the semi-final, they would have had [...]
A disgraceful knock
My dear Dasun and the cricket team, I am writing to you when cricket fans are shocked with your performance at the T20 World Cup. In a tournament where all our games are being played on home soil, we have been booted out already. What has happened to the game 30 years after we won [...]
The government basking in the IMF’s assessment of the economy
Although the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called the country’s recovery after the 2022 economic crisis impressive, it has emphasised that reforms should be taken to ensure the growth momentum. Furthermore, it has drawn the government’s attention to the possible external shocks that we discussed in last Sunday’s column. Earlier, the Central Bank of Sri [...]
‘Protecting Buddhism’ and ‘marching for peace’; two diametrically contrary streams of ‘mindfulness’
A ten-point ‘joint declaration’ made at a ‘Maha Sangha Convention’ in Colombo at the All-Ceylon Buddhist Congress earlier this month at which the National Peoples’ Power (NPP) Government was called upon to ‘take measures to protect Buddhism in Sri Lanka’ has raised more questions than answers. Government called upon to ‘prevent’ hostility’ against monks Particularly, [...]
Ranil’s case: Pursuit of profit over justice and corporate silence
Last week, sixty-nine academics issued what they described as a Statement of Concern and Solidarity following reports that Professor Maithree Wickramasinghe had been summoned before the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) of the Criminal Investigation Department. The summons, it is reported, is linked to an ongoing case against her husband, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, concerning [...]
The night the fight for free speech died in Oxford and Cambridge dust
It was the night that Britain’s fight to promote free speech died in the Oxonian and Camrian dust. The night bells tolled for a spirit fled, an indomitable spirit that had doggedly remained in residence within both unions’ debating halls. Why the spirit – whose ancestry can be traced back to the 1820s – took [...]
Namal hits back as Oxbridge unions duck for cover
O Tempora, O Mores! These words of the illustrious Roman senator Cicero might be rather wasted on the Oxbridge student unions that found hosting two speeches by a foreign politician they had invited too hot to handle. So they probably thought it more convenient to call it a day and never mind any missing Oxford [...]
Govt hauled over the coals, finds breather in Sallay arrest
Govt source says arrest linked to statement discrepancies; authorities silent on mastermind questions Opposition fires on all cylinders over low‑grade coal, warns of looming power crisis Draft MoU with India on Lanka’s mineral resources sparks fresh protest By our Political Desk Those in the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) have [...]
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