Gurudawa

“Madam, don’t try to form a government with the JVP. Both the government and the country would head toward a natural disaster…”This was the advice an astrologer reportedly gave then-President Chandrika Kumaratunga in 2004 when she was preparing to contest...

“I need to meet you.” One day, former UNP strategist and parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera unexpectedly telephoned then Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe. “There is something important we need to discuss. Malik and I would like to meet you,” Mangala told him....

“I have already made my decision. I have no alternative. If you agree, you may stay. If not, you may leave. The door is open — you can get up and walk out right now…” J.R. Jayewardene did not say...

“Breaking news keeps coming all the time now. And what is this breaking news about? This MP is supporting that side. That minister is backing someone else. But when you look closely, they are the very same people who supported...

“We are grateful that India has expressed its displeasure regarding the events taking place in Sri Lanka. The brutal killing and torture of Tamils in Sri Lanka have deeply disturbed us. Please take appropriate action to protect the Tamils from...

In 1975, after the Lanka Sama Samaja Party left Mrs. Bandaranayake’s ‘Samagi’ Peramuna government, the leader of the opposition and the leader of the UNP, J.R. Jayawardene, used to meet the leaders of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, N.M. Perera...

When Chandrika, who came to power in 1994, appointed A.S. Jayawardena as Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, it was as if a bomb had gone off within the government. A.S. Jayawardena had begun his career as a junior executive...

“He can’t win an election… but he’s not a thief.”That was the tagline attached to Ranil when he became Prime Minister in 2013. “They called Ranil a traitor. They called him a Tiger sympathizer. But no one ever called him...

From 1977 to 1994, the Bandaranaikes and the Rajapaksas of the SLFP could not topple the UNP government. Even the JVP, brandishing T-56 rifles and resorting to killings, failed to overthrow it. By 1994, however, the SLFP and JVP discovered...

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend…” It was after reading this principle in Niccolò Machiavelli’s book “The Prince” that J.R. Jayewardene decided to release Rohana Wijeweera from prison. Had J.R. not freed Wijeweera, a youth uprising against him...