Rajiv Sikri is a retired Indian diplomat who has, over the last five decades, spent long periods living in, dealing with, and studying the Russian-speaking world. He is an Advisory Council member of Vivekananda International Foundation.
The Rajapaksa dynasty personalised political success so completely that it also personalised failure. A return to the old formula is unlikely to address the conditions that changed Sri Lankan politics after 2022.
The arrest of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera raises a difficult question about the reach of judicial power: can a procedural defect in a presidential pardon, granted in 2019 after intervention by Sri Lanka’s highest Buddhist authorities, retrospectively erase seven years
Former minister Champika Ranawaka has sharply criticised Sri Lanka’s handling of Trincomalee port and its growing strategic engagement with India, arguing that Colombo is
Sri Lanka’s garment export earnings fell 7.4% in August 2026 compared with the same month a year earlier, according to export data released by
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” (William Shakespeare) Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing away on 30th August has compelled observers around the world to
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