By Uditha Devapriya
How one team came together to resolve Sri Lanka’s intractable fuel shortages
On June 27, Sri Lankans woke up to some rather dismal news: the country had…
By P. K. Balachandran
The recent Sri Lanka-India-China triangular controversy over the docking of the Chinese research vessel Yuan Wang 5 at Hambantota port once again underscores the need to…
By Kusum Wijetilleke
Following the first Sino-Japanese war in 1895, the Qing Dynasty ceded the island of Taiwan, creating Imperial Japan’s first colony. The Japanese had planned to create what…
By Kaif Sally
For some 500 years, the West dominated the course of history. The burning question now on the horizon is, how will the 21st century become an Asian…
By Admiral Ravindra C. Wijegunaratne
A Chinese spy ship docking at the Hambantota Port has become news in Sri Lanka and India. Yet very few seem to be asking as…
By Rathindra Kuruwita
The war in Ukraine is in its fifth month. After a few initial setbacks, due to underestimations of Ukrainian morale, the accuracy of Western signals intelligence, and…
By Dr Ranga Kalansooriya
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February this year, Ranil Wickremesinghe’s views on the resultant crisis differed somewhat from other MPs. Holding the one and only seat…
By P. K. Balachandran
The US agenda in developing countries seems for many a matter of raking up human rights issues, fostering civil unrest, and forcing weak governments to sign…
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Sri Lanka’s outgoing president* Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in one of his last acts as head of state took a long-delayed step of talking to his Russian counterpart President…
By Sunil Abhayawardhane
Though Sri Lanka’s economic crisis blew open this year, its origins can be traced back to 1948. It was due more to what was not done than…
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By Uditha Devapriya
Protest movements have historically been decided by economic factors, most prominently shortages, queues, and price hikes. The Arab Spring is an obvious case in…
All South Asian countries, not just Sri Lanka, are facing economic problems such as a shortage of essentials commodities, rising inflation, fall in the value of the local currency against…