Gurudawa

“Whenever Jupiter changes position, the JVP becomes powerful. But that power never lasts long. Within two or three years, it fades away. That happened in 1971. It happened in 1987. It happened in 2004 as well…” This was a prediction...

When the 2004 tsunami struck, the President of the United States was George W. Bush. A leading figure of the opposition Democratic Party at the time was former President Bill Clinton. Reflecting on the fate that had befallen many countries...

The 1956 general election was a political deluge. That deluge swept away the UNP, which was then the largest political party in Sri Lanka, the way a flood sweeps away a mansion. Riding the crest of that political wave was...

When Mrs. Bandaranaike's left-wing government swept into power with a two-thirds majority in 1970, it inherited a business landscape dominated by the UNP. Previous attempts at nationalization by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike in 1956 and Mrs. Bandaranaike herself after the July 1960...

When President Ranasinghe Premadasa first carried out a Cabinet reshuffle in 1990, he never imagined that this reshuffle would become the beginning of his downfall. Under that reshuffle, he appointed Lalith Athulathmudali, who had been the Minister of Agriculture, as...

In a small corner of the third page of the Divaina newspaper in 1992, a photo appeared that went largely unnoticed. The headline read, “Chandrika on a Tour to India.” The accompanying image showed then-Indian Foreign Secretary J. N. Dixit...

It has been six days since Lalith Athulathmudali became the leader of the Democratic United National Front. At that time, President Premadasa suddenly decided to hold the Provincial Council elections. When Premadasa announced the elections, Opposition Leader Mrs Bandaranaike, together...

On July 15, 2012, ten underworld gunmen stormed the garden of a JVP Provincial Council member in Katuwana, where a political meeting was being held under the patronage of the current Minister of Health, Nalinda Jayatissa.  The attackers opened fire...

The oldest political party in Sri Lanka is the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). The Communist Party was formed after that. Both these parties are leftist parties. As an alternative to these leftist parties, the United National Party (UNP) was...

In 2020, a leading U.S. credit rating agency issued a warning to President Gotabaya’s government in Sri Lanka, stating that the country’s state revenue was insufficient to meet debt repayments. That same year, in 2020, the U.S. State Department released...