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By Uditha Devapriya The protests at Galle Face have been continuing for more than a month now. Initially aimed against Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his band of brothers, the infiltration of certain groups has diluted the tone and trajectory of the demonstrations. Over the last few weeks, the country at large has taken part in one […] ....
A reader has, in a letter published in the April 29, 2022 issue of your paper, attached attributes to the Code of Conduct proposed by me for Ministers, that are not really attributes of a Code of Conduct. Here’s what the Code IS NOT meant to be – It’s not an instrument that seeks to […] ....
By Gamini Seneviratne (This article was first published in The Island in 2001. It is reproduced, today, given its relevance to the present situation.) That heading should not be taken to refer to the political micro-families in this and other parts of the world, although within the IMF’s grand design, such ‘families’ do matter. ‘The […] ....
By Uditha Devapriya Photographs by Manusha Lakshan Recalling his travels across the country, James Emerson Tennent reflects on Ambalangoda only cursorily after passing through Hikkaduwa. He writes that upon entering the area he saw, of all things, a rock python, which upon seeing the visitor uncoiled its fold and passes through the fence into the […] ....
By Uditha Devapriya In Sri Lank, as in every other colonial outpost, resistance to foreign domination predated Western intervention by well more than two centuries. Surviving numerous onslaughts of South Indian conquest, the Anuradhapura kingdom gave way to the Polonnaruwa kingdom in the 11th century AD. The latter’s demise 200 years later led to a […] ....