Mohan Kumar is former Indian ambassador to France and currently dean/professor at OP Jindal Global University. He was joint secretary (BSM) and India’s deputy high commissioner to Sri Lanka in the late Nineties.
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 newly elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) is on his maiden visit abroad, to India. The visit will conclude on December 17. This is in line with his predecessors
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