While crises and chaos do follow any grand coalitions in power, our current political crisis may well be affected by the global political crisis of the stalling liberal system. Sri Lankan citizenry and political elites are both engaged in an intense de…
Sri Lanka is in the throes of a political crisis after the two main parties in the ruling coalition suffered a dramatic defeat in the recent local government elections. Fissures between the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, led by President Maithripala Sirisena…
Never in the history of politics, in the Seventy years of Independence, have we come across such double-dealing and hypocrisy ‘Marked’ by deliberate deceptiveness pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another. Treachery and perfidiousness is being perpetrated by a Head of …
S ri Lanka Navy has welcomed the Iranian Navy’s 50th flotilla, which arrived at the Port of Colombo on Friday. The naval fleet, comprising Tunb logistic-combat warship and Shaheed Naqdi and Bayandor destroyers, is visiting Sri Lanka as part of the Iranian Navy’s missions in the Indian Ocean and other …
Those who are bewildered by the results of Sri Lanka’s local government elections a week ago need a harsh reality check if not a resounding knock to … Committees sat in esoteric constitutional reform exercises in Colombo that touched on all the unhappy trigger points that had divided the Sri Lankan …
With the political wrangling throughout the week as Sri Lanka struggled to form a new government, Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama brought the reality of the complex political discussions to a Colombo conference on IT on Thursday. “I still haven’t lost my …
Sri Lanka will look to ride on the momentum they have gained so far to win the T20 series against hosts Bangladesh when the two teams meet for the last time in the series at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium this evening. Despite a disappointing…
It is disturbing , stressful and spoils any experience in Colombo. I have spoken to other tourists and they have had the same experience in Kandy. To quote one couple, they said ‘It grinds you down’ and as a result they won’t be returning to Sri Lanka. Even the metered tuk tuks would rather turn meters off …
He goes on to explain, “Because I grew up in Sri Lanka during the war, I was quite passionate about building trust between people. The war was a result of trust breaking down between communities.” The absence of a price list is not the only novel concept at ‘Lentil As Anything.’ It’s a not-for-profit.
It is also a first in Sri Lanka with the private sector joining hands for the national good in a “landmark” collaboration with a government body and an environmental agency under the umbrella of the non-profit Biodiversity Sri Lanka (BSL). The focus of…