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Anura Kumara Dissanayaka

September 7, 2026
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka President Vows Swift Passage of 22nd Amendment

Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has pledged to move swiftly to pass the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution once the Supreme Court delivers its ruling, saying the proposed amendment is essential

Diplomacy/Politics/Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s Shameless Leader and His Lilliputian Regime

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is apparently determined to have one of his loyalists appointed Auditor General though the Constitutional Council (CC) has prevented him from doing so. The government is apparently playing a waiting game. Sri Lanka has never been

December 12, 2025

Sri Lanka: Budget 2025 — How to End Economic Infantilism

Editor's Choice/Sri Lanka

by Luxman Aravind Sri Lanka’s economic catastrophe has been an apocalyptic warning of what unfettered fiscal mismanagement, political expediency, and economic illiteracy can result

Cardinal Ranjith’s Crusade in Sri Lanka: From Faith to Political Pawn

Columns/Sri Lanka

Editor’s Note: The following article is based on a video message issued by the author, where she describes the bitter politicisation surrounding the most

Sri Lanka President Vows Swift Passage of 22nd Amendment

September 7, 2026
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has pledged to move swiftly to pass the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution once the Supreme Court delivers its ruling, saying the proposed amendment is essential

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Sri Lanka’s Shameless Leader and His Lilliputian Regime

December 12, 2025
Diplomacy/Politics/Sri Lanka

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is apparently determined to have one of his loyalists appointed Auditor General though the Constitutional Council (CC) has prevented him from doing so. The government is apparently playing

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Sri Lanka: Budget 2025 — How to End Economic Infantilism

February 17, 2025
Editor's Choice/Sri Lanka

by Luxman Aravind Sri Lanka’s economic catastrophe has been an apocalyptic warning of what unfettered fiscal mismanagement, political expediency, and economic illiteracy can result in. The policies of successive governments have created

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Cardinal Ranjith’s Crusade in Sri Lanka: From Faith to Political Pawn

February 3, 2025
Columns/Sri Lanka

Editor’s Note: The following article is based on a video message issued by the author, where she describes the bitter politicisation surrounding the most brutal terrorist attack in post-war Sri Lanka—the Easter

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Clean Sri Lanka — Cleansing the Soul of the Country

January 11, 2025
Columns/Sri Lanka

This endeavour goes beyond merely cleaning up the environment. It aspires to restore the deeply eroded and deteriorated social and environmental fabric of our motherland. We aim to create cleanliness and rejuvenation

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Part 3: Anura Dissanayake Resembles Cambodia’s Pol Pot — Dayan

September 18, 2024
Interviews/Presidential Election 2024

Here is the final part of the interview, following the publication of Part Two yesterday. In this segment, Dr. Dayan Jayatillake focuses on the forthcoming presidential elections in Sri Lanka. Q. As

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Sri Lanka: Will the ‘Malimawa’ Pass or Fail Spectacularly?

September 5, 2024
Presidential Election 2024/Sri Lanka

by Luxman Aravind In a time of crisis, political transitions often become dangerous experiments. Sri Lanka’s upcoming presidential election has ushered in the rise of the National People’s Power (NPP) under the

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Sri Lanka: AKD’s Speech on Police and Rule of Law — Merits and Demerits?

June 12, 2024
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s (AKD) speech as the Leader of the National People’s Power (NPP) at the National Convention organized by the Retired Police Officers Collective on 9 June 2024 is quite promising

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JVP and the people of North East

March 8, 2024
Columns/Politics

Sir Anthony Weldon (1583-1648) once said, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me again, shame on me as well.” This applies to all political parties in Sri Lanka and also to

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Sri Lanka: I am the common enemy – Anura Dissanayaka

February 8, 2023
Interviews/Politics

“Despite extreme political polarization in Sri Lanka, I have become the common enemy of the country’s all political fronts,” leader of the Marxist JVP, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka says in an interview with

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