North and South Trust Deficit?
By Dr. S Hettiarachchi Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:00 The 100 day ‘unachievable target’ is a reality now. People knew it as a clever election slogan, but undeliverable. Sri Lankans are quite used to these […]
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Promise not what one cannot deliver
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 01 March 2015 00:00 Chief Minister Wigneswaran insisted that the word ‘genocide’ be dropped when the NPC passed a resolution calling for an international probe, observing that it had to […]
Diyawanna’s Un-mandated Prime Minister
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 01 February 2015 00:00 Ranil Wickremesinghe’s remarkable ‘come back’ is shockingly political and indicates the strategic political manipulations central to the ‘change wave’ created for the masses to capture their […]
Is the Opposition A ‘Progressive Alternative’?
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 30 November 2014 00:00 Is the opposition A Progressive Alternative? Slovenian cultural critic and a Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek suggests what the ‘New European family’ requires as it expands a […]
DE-STABILIZING POLITICS
THE NATION SUNDAY CLICK HERE: http://www.nation.lk/epaper/sunday/2014/11/16/index.html#38/z
Narrative-Narrator Dilemma
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 26 October 2014 00:00 Both the English and the Sinhala written and electronic media are inundated with speculations and narratives of the possible presidential election. The debates of a common […]
Crossing the Diplomatic Line
By Dr. Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi Sunday, 24 August 2014 00:00 US President Barack Obama speaks about the US involvement in Iraq, as well as the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of […]