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Rohana R. Wasala

Rohana R. Wasala is a freelance journalist and regular columnist for Sri Lanka Guardian, with a background in academia.

    April 15, 2026
    Columns/Geopolitics

    Bound by Rivers, Driven by Strategy

    Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a

    Diplomacy

    China Marks 76th National Day in Maldives as President Muizzu Pledges Stronger Ties

    The Chinese Embassy in the Maldives hosted a grand reception on September 30 to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The event brought together nearly 250 distinguished guests, including

    October 3, 2025

    Solidarity in the Storm

    Columns/Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka was struck by severe flooding and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah, leading to road blockages, destruction of homes and loss of life.

    Clean Water, Shared Destiny: China–Sri Lanka Friendship in Action

    Diplomacy

    China and Sri Lanka first became connected through Buddhism and later through the Maritime Silk Road. The friendship between the two peoples has transcended

    Embarking on Transcendence: Reflections on Sir Edwin Arnold’s The Light Of Asia

    June 16, 2023
    Book Reviews

    Here endeth what I write Who love the Master for his love of us. A little knowing, little have I told Touching the Teacher and the Ways of Peace Forty-five rains thereafter

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    Unhinged Escapades: Jerome Fernando’s Boundary-Pushing Feats

    May 26, 2023
    Columns

    The Jerome Fernando escapade, if rightly handled, will provide a golden opportunity to neutralise external threats to the prevailing peaceful religious coexistence in the Sinhalese Buddhist majority Sri Lanka. I hope that

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    The first Global Buddhist Summit and the Dalai Lama

    May 7, 2023
    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, based in Dharamsala in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India, flew to New Delhi to attend the two-day Global Buddhist Summit held in Hotel Ashok

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    Sri Lanka: A Nation’s Quest for Identity and Unity

    March 9, 2023
    Sri Lanka @75

    I concluded a previous article published  Sri Lanka Guardian on January 28, 2023 (Is recolonisation the final solution II) touching on the deplorable situation that innocent Sri Lankans have been plunged into

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    Sri Lanka: Is Mahinda Rajapaksa still bluffing?

    February 15, 2023
    Columns/Politics

    The Most Venerable Mahanayake theras of the Three Nikayas (Siyam, Amarapura and Ramanna) wrote to president Ranil Wickremasinghe admonishing him not to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution two weeks

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    Sri Lanka: An open letter to the NPP/JVP

    February 9, 2023
    Columns/Politics

    Two stalwarts of the JVP-led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance, Dr Harini Amarasuriya MP and Mr Tilvin Silva, JVP General Secretary, as reported in the media early February 2023, have made more

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    Sri Lanka: Is 13A Panacea?

    February 3, 2023
    Sri Lanka @75/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    Tamil National Alliance (TNA) spokesman and Jaffna District MP M.A. Sumanthiran says that his party has decided to boycott the independence day celebrations this year, as reported in The Island of January

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    Sri Lanka: Is recolonisation the final solution?- II

    January 28, 2023
    History/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    This is the second part of this series. Click here to read the part one To assert, as Mr Sirimanne does, that “From ancient times the Northern region in the island was

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    Sri Lanka: Is recolonisation the final solution?

    January 25, 2023
    History/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    First of all, let me express my sincere respects to Mr D.L. Sirimanne, the writer of the interesting article entitled ‘Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Independence’ (The Island/Opinion/January 18, 2023). He struck me

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    What does Ranil Wickremasinghe have up his sleeve? 

    January 13, 2023
    Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    Whatever it is, equipped with his education, native intelligence and acquired political wisdom, he will be able to hold the country whole until it passes lawfully into the hands of the uncorrupt

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