September exposed the changing balance of power in Sri Lanka. While the courts delivered long prison sentences over the Easter Sunday attacks and the NPP government moved to replace the Prevention of
On February 5, 2026, the Government of India (GoI), Government of Nagaland (GoN), and the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) in New Delhi to establish the
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In 2014, the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched the Missing Migrants Project. The project, which ‘hosts the only open-access database of records of deaths during migration on the global
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After unexpected political catastrophes Myanmar, Bangladesh and Nepal are amidst a polls rush, will these bring about transformation for the people of these countries or will light at the end of the
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The United National Party has begun a major structural transformation to adapt to a rapidly changing digital society, with party leader and former President Ranil Wickremesinghe stressing the need to protect Sri
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Ceylon is a beautiful, but unhappy land ~ D.N. Pritt Independence is never a moment; it is a continuum. It is not a flag raised at dawn, nor a constitution promulgated in
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Military coups, noted Edward Luttwak, can be stunningly successful: instant transfer of power or abysmal failures: eating out of a mess tin in jail and waiting for a firing squad. In an
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Bangladesh today finds itself at a moment of grave constitutional reckoning. The so-called July Charter, theatrically unveiled on 17 October 2025 at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, was presented
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Sri Lanka had weathered political, economic and climatic maelstrom in the last three years after the Aragalaya – spontaneous uprising of the people – dethroned the Rajapaksas from power in 2022. During
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Sri Lanka marked its 78th National Independence Day amid calls for unity, determination, and collective responsibility, as President Anura Kumara Dissanayaike urged citizens to come together to build the shared vision of
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Germany has unveiled plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in military space capabilities, including surveillance satellites and offensive laser systems, signaling a dramatic expansion of its defense posture even as
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Please click here to read Part 2 of this series Reversing Political Entropy The physics metaphor proves instructive. Reversing entropy requires constant energy input. For Sri Lanka’s government, this means rebuilding trust
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On January 29, 2026, direct flights between Bangladesh and Pakistan were reinstated after a 14-year break in a historic move that marked the renewal of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
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The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers in June 1971. In November, Hannah Arendt published her commentary “Lying in Politics.” Most people have agreed, she wrote, that the “basic issue raised
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‘With thieves…’‘Thieves and lies…’‘Carithe horu aran…’‘A new thief is needed…’‘There is no way without thieves…’ This wave of political drama became popular in Sri Lanka after the 2015 presidential election. The reason
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Sri Lanka’s long-postponed Provincial Council elections remain stalled amid what the Election Commission describes as a complete lack of response from the Presidential Secretariat, despite repeated written requests to resolve the legal
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