Gajaya's Column

April 26, 2023

From Tragedy to Scandal: How the X-Press Pearl Disaster Exposed Sri Lanka’s Muggers

by Gajaya Oh, Chamara Gunasekara, how lucky you are to be born in the Island of Pearl, or as we like to call it, the Island of Paradise Lost. It must be

From Tragedy to Scandal: How the X-Press Pearl Disaster Exposed Sri Lanka’s Muggers

April 26, 2023

by Gajaya Oh, Chamara Gunasekara, how lucky you are to be born in the Island of Pearl, or as we like to call it, the Island of Paradise Lost. It must be

The Ballot Box or the Barricades?

From threatened colonial institutions and mass police deployment in New

Kashmir: The Unfinished Legacy and South Asia’s Fragile Peace

Nearly eight decades after the events of 1947, Kashmir remains

Colombia threatens its Caribbean neighbor: Nicaragua

When Abelardo de la Espriella was declared the winner of

Social Media – An Unnecessary Evil?

Walk into any café, look into a living room, observe

The long journey back to the wild: The return of Przewalski’s horses

In the vast steppe of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous

The Spirit of Democracy Remains Strong

After the piece below had been drafted, news came in

A Victory for the Brazilian People Once More Through Lula

The week before 25 October in Brazil was frenetic. It

Afghanistan’s Taliban Face a Growing Insurgency — But No Existential Threat

Anti-Taliban armed resistance is spreading across Afghanistan, with the National

Punjab’s Gang Violence Tests Modi’s Security Strategy

Parvinder Singh Jhota spent years confronting suspected drug dealers in

Manipur’s Deadly Spiral: Ethnic Conflict Spawns a Wider Security Crisis

Manipur’s ethnic conflict is entering a more volatile phase, with

The Dangerous Politics of Mob Rule

When street violence is mistaken for popular will, a small

Bullets at a Funeral: Can Extremists Break Jordan’s Unity?

The killing of nine people at a Greek Orthodox funeral

From Anti-State Laws to State Repression

Having risen to power promising to dismantle draconian laws, the

The Architect Of Betrayal

Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the perils of a nation’s broken

Follow the Money: How Foreign Powers Buy Democracy

Financial influence has become a significant tool of global geopolitics,