Uditha Devapriya and Umesh Moramudali on Sri Lanka’s ongoing political realignment.

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka--Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that ...

The wife of a Sri Lankan cartoonist and political analyst who was forcibly disappeared over a decade ago has been joined by ...

The president issued a message for the Hindu festival of lights being celebrated today. An opportunity to ‘end the political ...

His anger was palpable for his rapid fire shot down Goebelsian mischief makers who misread the Nazi propagandists’ techniques and appeared to believe they had world enough and time to convert next ...

The northern vote should be examined against the backdrop of expulsion of the entire Muslim population from that province in ...

One Ambassador, on the 4th February ordered his staff to position all the Sri Lankan guests at the bottom of the stairs, when the Ambassador & wife walked down the stairs, slowly, whilst the National ...

This does not mean that the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake (often referred to by his initials, AKD) of the National People’s Power (NPP) reflected a political consensus. At first look ...

Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka's presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political ...