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Turkey’s Enterprising and Humanitarian Foreign Policy
The priorities of our foreign policy, which emanate from the developments in our immediate neighbourhood and beyond, are of equal importance and actually interdependent. by R. Demet Şekercioğlu Tu…
Ravindra Wijegunaratne
Sri Lanka: Prison Diary – III
Getting used to life in cell, thinking of karma and performing yoga by Admiral Ravindra C. Wijegunaratne The third day in Prison. I had got used to the prison routine. I would wake up 4.30 am, when t…
John Stanton
Liquid Capitalism: Everyone Drinks it, Swims in it, Drowns in it
Liquid Capitalism is impressive and horrifying. It floods and absorbs every political movement and message. It dilutes it, repackages it, commodifies it and profits from it. by John Stanton The most …
Natwar Singh
Should democracy be at mercy of public opinion?
India’s flawed democracy works. That it works is a miracle. But assaults are being attempted. These will fail. by K Natwar Singh Winston Churchill said, ‘Democracy is not perfect. Alternatives are w…
Raj Gonsalkorale
COVID wild fire, 20th Amendment, Mark Pompeo’s threat
The 20th Amendment will become law as soon as the Speaker signs it. The Presidency assumes supremacy over the Prime Minister and the Parliament. One wonders how this amendment and its reinstated powe…
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Why 2020 Is the Year of Black Holes
The Nobel physics prize went to scientists who have broken the dam on our understanding of mysteries in the universe. by Prabir Purkayastha The Nobel Prize in physics for 2020 has been shared by Roge…
World View
How Coronavirus Exposed the Flaws of the Childcare Economy
The pandemic has revealed the barbaric nature of an economy that has largely left the care of children to the whims of market forces. The well-being of children, women, and especially women of color …
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Sri Lanka: Appeal for active participation of “People” in “Constitution making”
Resorting to a democratic process in making a Constitution has many traditions in many countries that are being spoken of and discussed as “case studies”. The most common experience is in South Afric…
Gamini Weerakoon
Sri Lanka: To pledged paradise via new Constitution
The President in accordance with time-honoured traditions of Sinhala monarchy cannot be accused of any offences. His legal powers will be comparable to British monarchs till recent times: The King ca…
Nisthar Cassim
Sri Lanka: 20A consequences
Political analysts will likely argue for years to come on whether the mandate to fix the issues created by the 19th Amendment gave the Government the right to centralise power to the extent done by t…
Victor Cherubim
How to prepare for the economic recovery now?
Putting it crudely, if everyone around us is going broke, then it simultaneously follows someone somewhere must be minting money, getting rich out of our misery. by Victor Cherubim While the shock c…
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