Gurudawa

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...

During the recent UNP anniversary, the sight of the politicians seated in the front row brings to mind the article published on April 6, 2024, in the “Political analysis” column titled:  “Sri Lanka’s Second Cabinet on the Brink” Below is...

If not for former Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala and Ranil Wickremesinghe’s father, Esmond Wickremesinghe, Anura Kumara would not have had the opportunity to address the United Nations General Assembly.  It was Sir John who launched the diplomatic mission to...