Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has determined that the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution is not inconsistent with the Constitution and does not require approval through a referendum, allowing the Bill to be
Editor’s Note: This is an Extended Version of the Author’s Earlier Report Winter had just begun in New Delhi, and the day after my arrival, I decided to meet him for a
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Editor’s note: The following article was first published in The Sunday Morning, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. New Delhi’s winter is approaching with a gentle chill, though the city retains a pleasant calm,
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That was no ordinary greeting; on the frosty evening of last Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Modi embraced Russian President Vladimir Putin in a bear hug at Delhi airport and, within moments, presented
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That was one of the most concealed nightmares humanity was forced to endure. “In one village a mother was discovered boiling her two-year-old to eat its flesh. In another case, a father
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“Nothing is sacred anymore,” Prof. Nelum Deepika Udagama remarks at one point during this conversation, reflecting on the way education, law, and public institutions have been pulled into the logic of the
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Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will celebrate his eightieth birthday next Tuesday. Whether we admire or despise his politics, there is no denying that he decisively shaped the destiny of this island for
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Editor’s Note: The following interview was originally published in The Sunday Island, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. What does it mean to claim that psychoanalysis is inherently feminist? How can the unconscious, that
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J.N. Dixit, India’s former National Security Adviser and one of the country’s most seasoned diplomats, once wrote that the establishment of relations “with South Africa and then with Israel” was the most
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When her mother passed away, I immediately sent Arundhati Roy my condolences, recalling our brief meeting in Sweden with another remarkable figure, Daniel Ellsberg, the man behind the Pentagon Papers. I wrote,
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Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Sunday Morning, the Colombo-based weekly. We are on the cusp of a remarkable fortnight in Asian geopolitics. By the time this column reaches readers,
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Editor’s Note: The following insight was originally published in the Beijing-based monthly, Beijing Review. Can the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) emerge as a pivotal forum to mitigate the escalating fracturing of Eurasian
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This year, the United Kingdom’s intelligence services marked a significant turning point in their distinguished history. Last week, the nation mourned the passing of Dame Stella Rimington, the first female Director General
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When the most powerful woman in North Korea declared earlier this week, with surgical clarity, that her nation would not return to dialogue with South Korea and would now only engage the
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Former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot, caught in an intimate moment on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert, present a striking case study in the complex and
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President Dissanayake’s forthcoming official visit to the Maldives comes at a time that demands not ceremony, but sober reflection and strategic recalibration. It holds particular significance as the Maldives prepares to mark
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