COMIC STRIP BY WASANTHA SIRIWARDENA
COUNTER POINT VIDEOS
COVER STORIES
SLPP zeroes in on GL in last-ditch battle
By Vishvanath
The SLPP, which had a phenomenal rise in national politics, unlike any other political party in Sri Lanka, and won the last three...
CURRENT AFFAIRS
US slams India for serious rights violations
Even as India is in the midst of its parliamentary elections where human rights are a key issue.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 24:
In its report...
President Muizzu’s alliance get super majority in Maldivian parliament
With 70 out of 93 seats, Muizzu can even change the constitution
By P.K.Balachandran
Maldivian voters gave President Mohamed Muizzu’s alliance, principally comprising the Progressive...
MIRROR WALL by KASSAPA
Ranil’s plans for the race of his life
By Kassapa
The Sinhala and Tamil New Year is over. That heralds the final stretch of the presidential election which is shaping up to be...
Maithripala- Mad maverick or master manipulator?
By Kassapa
When Maithripala Sirisena startled everyone by announcing suddenly that he knows who masterminded the 2019 Easter Day attacks, the first question that many...
POLITICS By Vishvanath
A blue hat likely to be thrown into ring
By Vishvanath
Politicians are known for their remarkable ability to see opportunities in crises. Never do they care to make moral judgements when they pursue...
The holy taken for an unholy ride
By Visvanath
Anything goes in Sri Lankan politics. There is nary a person or thing that crafty politicians hesitate to use to compass their ends....
Pall of political uncertainty could spell doom for economic recovery
By Vishvanath
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed fear that uncertainty caused by impending elections could take its toll on Sri Lanka’s economic recovery...
Is SLFP hitching its wagon to Wijeyadasa?
By vishvanath
There seems to be no end in sight to trouble for the SLFP. A special meeting it held on Saturday, under the chairmanship former President Maithripala...
When radical Reds mellow
By Vishvanath
Leader of the JVP-led National People’s Power (NPP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake, during a political event in Canada, on Sunday, happened to express remorse...
STATECRAFT
The return of the university bogeyman
• Country heading towards darkness amidst energy stakeholders tug of war
A modified version of Pastor Martin Niemoller’s indictment of the passivity and indifference of...
Rescind detention orders: BASL
Torture and inhuman treatment a risk under the PTA
The arrest last week of Wasantha Mudalige, Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation, set...
Ranil attempts to legitimize government with an all -party approach
• Condemnation for GGG attack exceed congratulations
• President makes Sri Lanka a human rights pariah
John F Kennedy once said that those who make revolution...
Hunting the hunter
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the failed president
The need for a president who will bring back the 19th A and abolish the executive presidency
Ranil’s political swan...
Belling the cat in a crony power plant deal
The revelations about an alleged power plant deal at the highest echelons of government involving the heads of state of Sri Lanka and India...
Ying & Yang
When Microfinancing Drives Borrowers to Despair
For those struggling to make ends meet, particularly the rural poor, microfinancing is seen as a God send. Unable to obtain credit facilities through...
Equal Opportunities a Must for Everyone
Photo courtesy- friendsofnavajeevana.org
While she told the audience gathered at the Shangri-La hotel, that evening of March 8th, that ensuring peace and harmony for all...
Cardinal’s Crusade for Truth, won’t make him a Darling of the Administration
Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith does not seem to be a happy man these days.
Well, he couldn’t, could he, when he finds himself between a rock...
COVID-19 Vaccinations: Mixed Signals and Mixed Priorities
Confusion and miscommunication seems to be becoming the hallmark of this government.
Just like the many other instances where gazettes are issued, then cancelled, prices...
Wake Up! It’s time for Gender Parity not Patriarchy
In filing a Fundamental Rights petition against the appointment of a woman officer to the post of Acting Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG),...
IN PERSPECTIVE
After L’dweep, can China help Muizzu in domestic politics?
Many Maldivians have families, homes, businesses and jobs in neighbouring Sri Lanka, and they were closely watching the economic melt-down in that country, circa...
How INDIA Can Counter Modi’s Popularity
N Sathiya Moorthy Chennai
11 January 2024
What the INDIA alliance needs is neither a counter to Modi's tall personality and undiminished charisma nor a counter-narrative to...
If 13-A is good, Mr President do it now, why and how!
N Sathiya Moorthy
Colombo Gazette 9 January 2024
In northern Jaffna ahead of the annual Tamil harvest festival of ‘Thai Pongal’, President Ranil Wickremesinghe promised the full...
After Muizzu suspends ministers India must hold its horses
N Sathiya Moorthy
South Asia 8 January 2024
Maldives President Mohammed Muizzu has suspended three ministers for mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media after a...
Can Stalin Repeat 2019
Lok Sabha Result In 2024?
By N Sathiya Moorthy
5 January 2024
In what should pass for irony of the coming Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched...
POINT OF VIEW
Which bell, what cat, and how to tie it?
N Sathiya Moorthy 21 April 2024
Closer the presidential election gets, the more complex it is getting. Of course, it has always been the case, including the...
Poll Schedule Works Against First Phase Contestants
N Sathiya Moorthy
9 April 2024
Constituencies that are going to the polls in the first phase, slated for April 19, have just 19 days for...
Maldivian parliament calls for trade and tourism sanctions against Israel
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, April 5:
The Maldivian parliament has called for trade and tourism sanctions against Israel for its atrocities in Gaza. But President Mohamed Muizzu...
Katchatheevu: Modi Bets Big On A Dead Horse
N Sathiya Moorthy
The BJP is now inventing new angles to keep its campaign relevant -- even if it's old wine in an old bottle,...
The many dimensions of the Moscow terror strike
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 26: The terror attack on a packed concert hall in Moscow last Saturday that claimed more than 130 lives has thrown...
Law & the Layman
Another humiliating U-turn ahead for govt
The government is punching above its weight on the economic front, mustering as it does enough votes in the parliament to secure the passage...
Is advertising blitz in social media tabooed for lawyers?
The topic of soliciting and touting in the legal profession is a subject of discussion that invited much attention in recent times, especially on...
BASL Elections -Meaningful or Necessary?
The fever and dust has settled on another election to the office of President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka for the year...
Do we need Presidential Commissions?
Sri Lankan law broadly allows for two distinct types of commissions of inquiry to be appointed by the President. The first are commissions of...
Power to grant bail vested with judges should be exercised liberally-Court of Appeal
“It is my view that on account of the unusual and extraordinary delay in lodging the first complaint despite every ability to do so...