STATE OF THE NATION
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. The immortal Bard of Avon penned that
GOVERNANCE LACUNA
Constitutional change was the leitmotif of the government’s campaign for a two-thirds majority. But in the history of constitutional
RELIGION IN NATIONALISM
“He’s against God. He’s against guns.” In only six words, US President Donald Trump made Democratic presidential
FOREIGN REMITTANCES
FALLOUT FROM REPATRIATION Zulfath Saheed underscores the need to manage the post-COVID remittance decline The…
STATE OF THE NATION
The people’s appetite for more agency and less alienation in their own governance was tasted by the high electoral turnout
SINO-INDIAN RIVALRY
China and India – two global giants jostling for supremacy in the region and beyond – share a complicated history
VIRAL BLIND SPOT
Where was artificial intelligence when the novel coronavirus was lurking in the shadows in late December 2019
COLD WAR BLUES
When the former US president Ronald Reagan demanded that his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev
NATIONAL RECONCILIATION
A noteworthy and less positive feature of the recently concluded election was that none of the major
THE BIG PICTURE
On a special edition of LMDtv on election day, President’s Counsel and former Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL)
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
Among the main reasons that prompted the electorate to vote for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was a hope that he’d bring change
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a virtual standstill and Sri Lanka was certainly no exception. Accordingly
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA
Did you hear the story about the Japanese Nobel Laureate who claimed that coronavirus was designed in a lab in Wuhan where he had once worked? I hope not!
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Racism has always been an inescapable part of the American story. With a legacy of the slave trade, a civil war and persistent
STATE OF THE NATION
A ‘C’ CHANGE: IT’S RICH AND STRANGE Wijith DeChickera notices how the COVID-19 pandemic has…
THE BIG PICTURE
Questions, debates and even anger abound on social media these days with the administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic taking centre
THE GENERAL ELECTION
As was the case in the run-up to the November 2019 presidential election and earlier, there is a discernible rise in nationalist sentiment. The general election
FOOD SECURITY
When islandwide curfews came into effect in Sri Lanka earlier this year amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak, perhaps the main
COVID-19 CLIFFHANGER
Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time compresses several billion years of the universe’s existence into about 200 pages. What we are collectively
WORKING FROM HOME
In 1964, Sir Arthur C. Clarke addressed developments that he believed would comprise the ‘day after tomorrow’