The article challenges the growing reliance on disruptive street protests as a means of forcing political change, arguing that public grievances should be addressed through lawful debate, constitutional procedures and elections rather
Editor’s note: The following excerpts are taken from a longer article originally published on the author’s official LinkedIn page. Since 7 October 2023, a brutal war between Israel and Hamas, initiated by
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Trump’s bid to derail BRICS through tariffs is backfiring badly. Instead of pressuring India, China, and Brazil to distance themselves from Russia and crawl back to Washington to “kiss Trump’s ass,” his
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Editor’s Note: This article, by nature of the topic, may include language that is considered sensitive and/or vulgar to some readers. Night after night, the buses pull up on the tarmac outside
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Across the globe, discussions of population growth and decline are evolving quickly. East Asian and European countries are struggling with declining birth rates, while others, mostly in Africa and South Asia, still
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UNP Chairman Vajira Abeywardena made a statement claiming that three presidents of other countries had enquired about the arrest of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe. Pro-Ranil media outlets and Ranil’s social media channels
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Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, arrested and remanded on Friday (22) for alleged misuse of state funds during a visit to London, while in office, was granted bail yesterday. Large crowds flocked to
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In the early 1980s, former US President Jimmy Carter visited Stockholm. At a reception he approached Stig Ramel, the long-serving executive director of the Nobel Foundation, and asked with some bitterness why
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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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Minister Bimal Rathnayake has said Ranil Wickremesinghe should have been arrested about four decades ago over the Batalanda torture chamber, the 1983 racial violence, etc. The former has also flayed the latter
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Europe calls itself the cradle of democracy and freedom. And yet it is also the continent that still preserves monarchies as if they were part of the natural landscape, unquestioned relics of
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An Executive President of a sovereign country does not cease to be President when visiting a foreign land. He remains the Head of State, retaining all the authority, dignity, and responsibilities of
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The arrest and remand of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has triggered a social media feeding frenzy. The propaganda brigades of the government and the Opposition are red in tooth and claw; their
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India’s ambitious space program, led by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has garnered immense pride domestically. However, the current state of India’s space achievements paints a much less optimistic picture. Despite
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It has been a few weeks since the demise of Lohan. He was known as a politician in the country, but I am going to pen down his Rugby Football achievements. Having
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by Durga Velayudham Hours of power failure in a courtroom cannot be an accident in any landmark case, especially when the court is trying to hear the case of a former head
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