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Political Collapse

December 24, 2025
Editor's Choice/Sri Lanka

The Beginning of the End for Sri Lanka’s Ruling NPP at Year-End

The failure on the part of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) government to fulfil a plethora of promises given in the run up to the last presidential election,

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The Corruption of the Republic

On Friday we concluded our reading of On Revolution in the Arendt Center’s Virtual Reading Group. Arendt’s last finished book, On Revolution is about freedom — the idea that animates her writing from beginning to end. But it is also a polemic against a

December 15, 2025

An Interview: How to Confront Neglect and Exploitation — Part 3

Interviews/Sri Lanka

Continuing with the third part of our interview [ Read Part One and Part Two], Jayantha Gnanakone’s words become even more impassioned as he

Echoes of Power: Insights from Fallen Empires

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and

The Beginning of the End for Sri Lanka’s Ruling NPP at Year-End

December 24, 2025
Editor's Choice/Sri Lanka

The failure on the part of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) government to fulfil a plethora of promises given in the run up to the last presidential election,

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The Corruption of the Republic

December 15, 2025
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

On Friday we concluded our reading of On Revolution in the Arendt Center’s Virtual Reading Group. Arendt’s last finished book, On Revolution is about freedom — the idea that animates her writing from beginning to end.

More

An Interview: How to Confront Neglect and Exploitation — Part 3

March 21, 2025
Interviews/Sri Lanka

Continuing with the third part of our interview [ Read Part One and Part Two], Jayantha Gnanakone’s words become even more impassioned as he delves deeper into the serious, ongoing struggles faced

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Fallen Empire [Juan Carlos Barquet - Art ]

Echoes of Power: Insights from Fallen Empires

September 4, 2024
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and Renaissance Venice led to the discovery of an

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