JURIST Staff, US Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983-2009) between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist Tamil militant and political ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake was quoted as saying in one of those election rallies: “It usually takes a decade for a ...

The current government’s spectacular electoral success, was in essence a clear rejection of the chaos, incompetence and ...

All this is not to dismiss the common perception that political and other often not-so-culturally tutored people who desire to sit around a bottle of wine or, rather, a more inebriating drink, are ...

Author Ernest Hemingway had a simple formula for writing successfully. “First, you sit in front of the typewriter. Then, you ...

Photo courtesy of Kumanan Last year, I studied in some depth perceptions of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and the ...

There is a vast and increasingly interesting body of literature on the ways in which small and militarily and economically ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the National People’s Power-Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (NPP-JVP) government, hit a ...

The JVP led NPP got the better of Tamil nationalist parties such as the Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi (ITAK), the Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) and the Ahila Ilankai Tamil Congress ...

The national people’s power will win all 17 local authorities in the Jaffna district and form administrations” was the confident assertion of Ramalingam Chandrasekar in Jaffna on Thursday (Mar 13). ..

One person shouted, “NPP 2038, NPP 2028” as a dig to the opposition National Patriotic Party (NPP), basically trying to say they would be in opposition until that time. According to Forson ...

When the Aragalaya youth demanded system change in 2022 they also meant in addition an end to its associated political culture. And, when Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) and his JVP/NPP coalition ...