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In several key government departments, top posts continue to remain vacant amid attempts by certain parties to push through the names of their own favourites to fill them. The Presidential Secretariat has already rejected four names for the post of Commissioner General of Motor Traffic. They were submitted by a top official from the Prime [...]
Game and set to Sajith but match to Ranil
Why does Sajith Premadasa have that uncanny feeling this Sunday morning of finding butterflies fluttering in his abdomen? Or feel his ire rising to find fish shakin’ a fin to the baila beat of his agitated heart? Why does he fear the shadow that falls before him making him constantly look over his shoulder to [...]
72 Independence Day: A promise of things to come?
My dear Mother Lanka, I thought of writing to you at a time when you are preparing to ‘celebrate’ the 72 Anniversary of your ‘independence’. Many promises have been made about a secure, peaceful and prosperous future, which seems to have eluded us all these years since the British left our shores. Last year, we [...]
Trying to mask those misdeeds
As I write this the World Health Organisation has just declared the Coronavirus a global emergency. That was 18 minutes ago. What the WHO and others monitoring the situation would say next is hard to say. The WHO itself has admitted that it had made a mistake in an earlier assessment when it called the [...]
‘We will not give in to fascists without a fight’
Exactly a day after the pomp and the show of India’s celebrations of Republic Day 2020 faded, a young law student standing in the imposing shadow of India Gate in New Delhi, the country’s iconic war memorial,passionately confesses her uncomfortable dissonance with the lavish display. ‘All this passion, where will this lead to?’ ‘We are [...]
Ranil checkmates Sajith through political acumen
If there’s a prize for the great survivor in politics, the UNP leader will surely get it Premadasa will lead the UNP-led UNF alliance and head the nomination board, but final say with Wickremesinghe SLPP confident of winning parliamentary elections and hopes for a two-thirds majority; Sirisena revives PA under new name It seemed [...]
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