Gurudawa

After his victory in the 1988 presidential election, Ranasinghe Premadasa described his mandate as being akin to holding a "two-pronged lantern." By this, he referred to the dual challenges he faced: the conflict in the north and the JVP uprising...

In Sri Lanka, years ending in 5 have often been marked by extraordinary political events.Following independence in 1948, 1955 was the first such year, and it became a turning point in the country's political landscape. Notably, 1955 was the final...

If S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike had not left the UNP to form the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), politics in Sri Lanka would have remained polarized between two clear camps: the left and the right. However, Bandaranaike's decision to break from the...

It was Ranasinghe Premadasa who introduced mobile phones to Sri Lanka. In those days, the first mobile phone in Sri Lanka was called a brick. Also, Sri Lanka was connected to the internet for the first time during Premadasa's time....

A Speaker and Deputy Speaker were sent home because of fake degrees ‘Only his beard is real. Everything else is fake...’ This is the voice raised by the opposition in Nigeria against former Speaker Salisu Buhari, who was elected to...

The first Sri Lankan election where media freedom emerged as a central slogan was the 1994 general election. While media freedom had been a topic of discussion during the 1965 election—particularly opposing the Bandaranaike government's efforts to nationalize Lake House—it...

The JVP won the largest number of MPs in Sri Lanka for the first time in the 2004 general election, by winning 39 seats. The JVP contested the 2004 general election after forming the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) with...

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‘I ended up here because I failed to govern the country for 5 years. Now, two years later, I am talking as if nothing happened. The people are the ones who will change this system. If you do not achieve...

Upali Jayaweera, a second-tier leader of the JVP (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna), rose to prominence in the party’s Central Committee after the assassination of Rohana Wijeweera. Following his arrest by the military, he confessed on March 6, 1990, at the Pallekele...