Photo Courtesy of AP News Following parliamentary elections, President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa wasted no time in obtaining cabinet approval and thereafter gazetting the proposed 20th Amendment…
Photo Courtesy of Midday The proposed 20th Amendment has several major defects. One of its key faults is that its sponsors and framers have chosen…
Concern is growing, at home and internationally, about increasing unwillingness among leaders – especially the president – to accept checks on the power exercised over…
Photo Courtesy of City News “If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.” — Ramsay, Game of Thrones Articles penned…
Photo courtesy of Wikiwand In a rare victory for Sri Lanka’s environmental defenders, the government has decided to cancel the gazette issuing legal documents to…
Photo Courtesy of Lakpura Déjà vu? Once upon a time, a mighty government with a two-thirds majority in parliament engaged in political opportunism, and radically…
Photo courtesy of Blue Lanka Tours As the Twentieth Amendment Bill is brought before Parliament – and challenged in the Supreme Court – there are…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Brief The Rajapakse Administration, by Government gazette, published its proposed 20th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s Constitution and subsequently the Secretary…
Photo courtesy of Twitter “If history is continuity and discontinuity, resolution and catastrophe, it is also surprise and unanimity; a total fascist state that in…
Photo courtesy of Vikalpa The debate on the proposed 20th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s 1978 Constitution is gathering momentum. The proposal which has been in…
Photo courtesy of Magzter At the ceremonial opening of our first Parliament on 4th February, 1948 Mr. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike addressed the nation…
Photo courtesy New Indian Express The 20th Amendment to the Constitution Bill (20A) has been published. If I were to describe it in one sentence…
Photo courtesy of LMD The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, drew the attention of the world to the situation in Sri…
Photo Courtesy of The Bar Examiner The proposed 20th Amendment to the constitution seeks to repeal/amend all changes introduced by the 19th Amendment save three.…
Photo courtesy of LAOMS Today is the UN International Day of Democracy where this year’s theme is COVID-19: A Spotlight on Democracy. The pandemic is…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Mirror The proposed 20th amendment will be the death of free and fair elections in Sri Lanka. The study of…
Photo courtesy of The Economic Times The looming presidential election of the first week of November, 2020 draws some resemblances to that which confronted John…
Photo courtesy of Aleena Cader It was a dramatic moment: a tall, well-built young man dressed in white with a black band tied across his forehead…
Photo courtesy of Aleena Cader In different parts of Sri Lanka, families of the disappeared came together to hold events to commemorate the UN Day of…
Photo Courtesy of WSJ Opinion The US presidential election is due in November this year. For people in Sri Lanka, as in much of the…
Photo courtesy of San Diego Union-Tribune Article 9 of Sri Lanka’s Constitution states: “The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place and accordingly it shall be the duty…
Photo courtesy of Readphotos The Jathika Chintanaya which emerged in the 1980s and matured in the 1990s continues to exert a considerable influence on mainstream…
Photo Courtesy of Al Jazeera By Asanga Welikala and Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne. The election of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in November 2019 marked the beginning of…
Photo Courtesy of London School of Economics “I don’t know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know…
Photo courtesy of People for Equality and Relief in Sri Lanka Until recently, the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) was housed in a magnificent colonial…
Photo by Ad Care Sri Lanka’s August 5 parliamentary elections saw the Sri Lanka People’s Front (SLPP) sweep into power with 145 seats by winning…
Photo Courtesy of Colombo Telegraph There’s an image of Hejaaz Hizbullah I return to over and over again. It’s an image of him holding a…
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Mirror It’s a simple question. Why, in the face of utter electoral destruction, doesn’t the UNP choose a new leader…
Photo courtesy of unicef.org/srilanka/ According to the latest estimates by the United Nations, in 2019, 1.2 billion of the world’s population were between the ages…
Photo courtesy of epthinktank.eu The relationship between international bodies and national leaders can be tense. For instance, a United Nations official may produce a critical…