Gurudawa

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...

‘It was around the end of 1956. Bandaranaike set off a bomb in our heads…’ Sirimavo said. He came home early that day. I felt that he was in some worry. He told me to put aside my household chores...

Former Nepali Prime Minister Sharma Oli comes from a poor farming family. His mother passed away when he was just four years old. In 1958, his family lost their farmland due to floods, forcing them to abandon their village. It...

‘The President says that if he loses, he will accept defeat and go home and sleep. Should he be allowed to sleep? No. What he need is not the vote but a punch to the face. I tell J.R. that...

After President Premadasa’s assassination, his widow Hema sought the Colombo Central seat, as its longtime organizer Sirisena Cooray had decided not to contest the 1994 general election. At the same time, Ranil Wickremesinghe—having faced humiliating defeats in Biyagama at the...