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Each year on independence day, Sri Lanka celebrates political freedom and national sovereignty. Yet independence also invites a deeper question: what kind of independence did the country achieve if ...
Photo courtesy of The Times of India In regional politics yesterday’s adversaries often become today’s strategic partners.
Photo courtesy of Challenge Magazine The physics metaphor proves instructive. Reversing entropy requires constant energy input. For Sri Lanka's government, this means rebuilding trust through ...
Photo courtesy of Quartz Sri Lanka has suffered five decades of violent conflict, a tsunami, Covid-19 and an economic crisis, ...
Walking into Before Barrelism Tracing the Origins of a Practice feels less like entering an exhibition and more like stepping into an artist’s private archive one that was never meant to be public.
This article comprises three parts. Part 1 focuses on the electoral mandate of the NPP, the paradox of continuing IMF policies despite campaign promises, achievements and challenges in the first year ...
A friend of mine asked me what I thought of the recent hullabaloo over a video that surfaced on social media of a popular tuition master “insulting” writer, journalist, critic and thinker Martin ...