Hard-to-fathom Lankans’ perplexing CWC campaign
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Hard-to-fathom Lankans’ perplexing CWC campaign
By Champika Fernando at Riverside, DurhamThe Sri Lanka cricket team is like the British weather. If you like them one day—like on June 21, when they brought down one of…
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Editorial
Will hanging change the status quo?
When President Maithripala Sirisena announced triumphantly to journalists this week that he has already signed the death warrants of four prisoners on death row, the reactions were multifaceted. The most predictable of them came from Western do-gooders who, despite repeatedly neglecting to clear their own backyards, trot out formulaic strictures…
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Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and the US
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- 5th Column
Let the games begin: Backstabbing, under-cutting and bad-mouthing to the fore
My dear ‘Bond’ Ravi, I thought I must write to you because you are making many statements these days about what type of person the Green party’s next…
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Fast-changing political scenario and confusion: Alliances within alliances
In Sri Lanka’s political firmament, one thing certain about is its uncertainty and fast changing scenarios. What is in focus this week would be different from what it…
- Focus on Rights
Acts of great betrayal by Lanka’s leaders
For good reason and going by past bitter experience, Sri Lankans have learnt to distrust wildly acrimonious statements by their two quarrelling ‘yahapalanaya’ (good governance) leaders, President Maithripala…
- Sunday Punch
Architect of the 19th Amendment condemns it as ‘The Curse of Lanka’
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So now we have a duped president
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