Hearing the announcement that HRH Queen Elizabeth II had died brought on such a sad feeling. But there was no surprise or sorrow. This was what I felt and to see whether there was a difference in the emotions as I thought there was, I went to Internet and got this answer “Sadness is a […]
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"The only really nonaligned countries in the world," the president of Sri Lanka once quipped, "are the United States and the Soviet Union." What remains of nonalignment?
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA This may come as a surprise to you, but we’ve been here before. In August 1953, there was a two-day work stoppage and civil disobedience campaign by the island’s people, called by the left parties. Protest covered the South and the North. The LSSP and CP led, the Federal Party participated, and […]
Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA If on a technicality, Ranil is entrenched as the leader of a democratic republic with a directly, nationally elected presidency, it would not only be a travesty of Constitutionalism, it would, more dangerously, give the entire younger generation of Sri Lanka, the message that Constitutions and Constitutionality are a scam; a mode […]