An independent researcher based in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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
India has long grappled with a complex and often violent struggle between the government and various insurgent groups, most notably the Naxalites. Rooted in radical leftist ideology, Naxalism originated as a response
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