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Public works at bullet speed
When new trains — say bullet trains that seem to levitate over the...
2023-09-02 18:30:00 0
In on innovation
This is not a cricket article. It’s not about cricket but about a...
2023-08-26 18:30:00 0
App-happy but edgy
Are the young people of Sri Lanka any less technically savvy than...
2023-08-19 18:30:00 0
Cynics vs . Labour-law reform
The big debate on labour law reform is not over yet. It’s probably...
2023-08-12 18:30:00 0
Ifs and buts of inflation
People raise funds for good causes, such as providing wheelchairs to...
2023-08-05 18:30:00 0
The bitter emigrant?
The Tamil Diaspora has done well by all accounts and also done well...
2023-07-29 18:30:00 0
Victoria shows how
The State of Victoria has cancelled the 2026 Commonwealth games. The...
2023-07-22 18:30:00 0
Change and change-makers
Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, the champion of nationalism in...
2023-07-15 18:30:00 0
Contrasts in hate speech
If the Swedes and Danes are allowed to burn the Koran and spit on it...
2023-07-08 18:30:00 0
Racism and us
Has the UN failed? It would be a ludicrous question, most would think...
2023-07-01 18:30:00 0
Bad times and good mores
Is the country in trouble or are the people in trouble? Those are two...
2023-06-24 18:30:00 0
The impermanence principle
In subtle ways and not so subtle, from the Cardinal to various...
2023-06-17 18:30:00 0
Where ageists dare
Major issues such as racial polarisations and language policies and...
2023-06-10 18:30:00 0
Gary Lineker reads columnist?
On March 1 this year, this writer’s column was published in this...
2023-06-03 18:30:00 0
Working worker-laws
The labour laws of this country are to be overhauled? That will be...
2023-05-27 18:30:00 0
Galle Face’s faces
The rather farcical events surrounding the arrest of Piyath Nikeshala...
2023-05-20 18:30:00 0
Our 20/20 hindsight
Sri Lanka’s poverty figures have doubled says a spokesperson for an...
2023-05-13 18:30:00 0
Let there be Literature
Less weightier issues than the proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill (ATB) are...
2023-05-06 18:30:00 0
No niche, no advantage
Our giant neighbour to the North, India, is a BRICS nation that works...
2023-04-29 18:30:00 0
Rescue, but no relief?
The government of the most powerful country on earth forked out to...
2023-04-22 18:30:00 0
Taking sides
Professional associations are both maligned and damned with faint...
2023-04-01 18:30:00 0
Every regime’s story
When people begin to feel that the system is ‘gamed’ against their...
2023-03-25 18:30:00 0
That soft-power crisis
Sri Lanka is now among the lowest in the global Brand Finance soft-...
2023-03-18 18:30:00 0
‘Ceasefire’ talk
Karu Jayasuriya the grand old man of the Sri Lankan right-of-centre...
2023-03-11 18:30:00 0
The learning curve
The nature of modern ‘easy money’ is that basically nations have...
2023-02-25 18:30:00 0
Recovery and poll-position
At the time of writing all indications are that the local Government...
2023-02-18 18:30:00 0
Our economy, their war
The war in Ukraine should end but is not appearing to be ending...
2023-02-11 18:30:00 0
Follow Modi’s India
What is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trick? Some wag said it was...
2023-02-04 18:30:00 0
Civility and election fever
Civility in the public discourse returned after scores upon scores of...
2023-01-28 18:30:00 0
Rout rabble-rousers
The security forces would be downsized or at least such an outcome is...
2023-01-21 18:30:00 0
Debt and Shakespeare
Shylock asked for his pound of flesh, but didn’t bargain for Portia....
2023-01-14 18:30:00 0
Omission vs. commission
What are governments blamed most for? For acts of omission or acts of...
2023-01-07 18:30:00 0
Systems not sick?
The sick with Covid, and the plain sick who are down with some other...
2022-12-31 18:30:00 0
Adieu, tough year
As 2020 drew to a close there was sheer joy among people who were...
2022-12-24 18:30:00 0
Collective grit and circumstances
There are certain aspects of the economic meltdown that have had a...
2022-12-17 18:30:00 0
Generational-debt conundrum
If the Paris Club is discussing a debt-moratorium for Sri Lanka...
2022-12-10 18:30:00 0
One ‘party’ State
State officials who are asked to retire early have organised...
2022-12-03 18:30:00 0
COP and coping countries
It took a last ditch effort for the rich countries to agree to a loss...
2022-11-26 18:30:00 0
Budgets and bubbles
What happens to the economy and can it be predicted by what took...
2022-11-19 18:30:00 0
The debating society
The war in Ukraine, the runaway inflation as a result of the global...
2022-11-12 18:30:00 0
Today’s climate politics
The COP27 climate summit is something that people in this country...
2022-11-05 18:30:00 0
Old and working
In no country should pensioners get back to work. But increasingly...
2022-10-29 18:30:00 0
Slashing and spending dilemmas
If the tax dragnet does not yield the revenue that’s sufficient to...
2022-10-22 18:30:00 0
Blame and futility
The tendency has been — after those Geneva sessions in particular —...
2022-10-15 18:30:00 0
Reverse-gear remedies
Walking back attempted policy initiatives is a sign of democracy, or...
2022-10-08 18:30:00 0
Inflation and intuition
Everyone knows that it was inevitable there would be some food...
2022-10-01 18:30:00 0
The critical 20s
If the 20s set the tone for the rest of the century, time is up for...
2022-09-24 18:30:00 0
Stability needs deconstruction
What is the rule of law? It’s said to be the opposite of the rule of...
2022-09-17 18:30:00 0
Gun-shy Opposition
Even though technically the Government seems to hang by a thread due...
2022-09-10 18:30:00 0
Food-inflation tsunami
This country has one of the highest food-inflation numbers in the...
2022-09-03 18:30:00 0

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