by Our Political Affairs Editor President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has discovered a remarkably simple prescription for two of Sri Lanka’s most serious public-policy problems. Build 50 more universities and tell sick people
Editorial This is not new. This is precisely how the hunger for power works. Mahinda Rajapaksa tried it through the infamous 18th Amendment; Anura Kumara Dissanayake is now attempting something different in form but potentially no less consequential in effect.
If J.R. Jayewardene had not held a referendum, the 1988 rebellion would not have happened, a former JVP rebel told the media. He asked:
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has issued one of his strongest assurances yet that the island nation will not slide back into the
