A Staged Default? Sri Lanka’s Sovereign Bond Debt trap and IMF’s Spring Meetings

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, In Cherry Blossom lined Washington DC in the glare of global media last week…

Towards solving the current crisis in Sri Lanka

by The Association of Sri Lanka Academics in Japan (SLAcJ) Sri Lanka is now facing an…

In the aftermath of violence: A chance for political change

Over the past six months Lanka has been buffeted by the winds of political-economic turmoil and…

#Gogotagama and family rule: The price of our servile silence

Protesters shout slogans during an ongoing anti-government demonstration near the president’s office in Colombo, demanding President…

Partners in economic crimes against the nation

 Not only politicians but also the advisors are responsible for the crisis Unforgivable economic policy crimes …

People demand a genuine system change

It is seven days into the culturally and astrologically significant National New Year, celebrated mainly by…

Easter Sunday carnage: Cardinal reiterates possibility of grand plot

Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, delivering a Special Message at St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade, Kotahena…

Lawyers, docs lead call for resignation of both Prez and PM

… recommend Cabinet of 18, abolition of 20-A A civil society group comprising professionals representing various…

Aragalaya Versus Gotacracy By Ameer Ali

“Politics has become too serious a matter to be left to politicians” ~ (T. S. Elliot)…

Peaceful uprising seems to be ending racist politics

Sri Lankan politics is unlikely to be same again

By Latheef Farook Peaceful   uprising sweeping Sri Lanka is a timely blessing as it brought…

Downfall Of Sri Lanka Started In 1948; Accelerated In 1978; Completed In 2022 By Asoka Seneviratne

In 1948, soon after Brits lost India, the crown jewel of its empire, they gave us…

Sri Lanka stares at bankruptcy or redemption

The idea that, somehow, Sri Lanka can get through this crisis in a short period of…

What’s happening in Sri Lanka and how did the economic crisis start?

By R Ramakumar, Professor of Economics, Tata Institute of Social Sciences The island nation of Sri…

World Bank says Lanka’s economic outlook is highly uncertain, needs urgent policy measures

Sri Lanka’s economic outlook is highly uncertain due to the fiscal and external imbalances, the World…

Bankruptcy, Blame Shifting & Burden Bearers By Ameer Ali

In announcing the “pre-emptive negotiated” $51 billion debt default”, which in other words meant an official…

Power Players Go Home

“Gota Go Home” – goes far beyond a simple call to go home. It is a…

Time for Revolution of Thought Protesting for hope and change

In the recent past, public- led protests have sprung up all over Sri Lanka as people…

‘Gota go home’: desperate Sri Lankans call for President Rajapaksa to quit

Sri Lankans shout slogans during a protest against Gotabaya Rajapaksa in front of the presidential secretariat…