Living with a Legacy When I came back in 1989, the IPKF had been in the country for around two years. Its presence according ...

When the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) arrived in Sri Lanka on July 30, 1987, New Delhi did not expect to be embroiled in a bloody conflict with the ...

The first major assassination of a prominent political leader in Sri Lanka known formerly as Ceylon was in September 1959. ..

Here is the story of the disastrous Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war which lead to the deaths of more than a 1 ...

The Monarchical Tradition J R Jayewardene liked to trace his origins back 300 years to a family known as the Tudugala’s. To the name Tudugala was added the name Wijewardene on the conferment of a ...

Sri Lanka was once a pioneer of free-market capitalism in South Asia. After J.R. Jayewardene took power with a super-majority in 1977, he introduced a French-style executive presidency and ...

Critics of President Ranil Wickremesinghe are already likening him to his uncle J.R. Jayewardene. Sri Lankans have debated the need to abolish executive presidency for decades now.

When J.R. Jayewardene became Sri Lanka’s first Executive President, he appointed Ranasinghe Premadasa as Prime Minister. Premadasa then began to shape the role of the Prime Minister under the new ...

In both contests, the UNP, led by JR Jayewardene, emerged victorious. The victor tightened its grip on the political reins and secured its stronghold for the rest of the decade. J.R. Jayewardene’s ...

In a message on the birth anniversary of late President J.R. Jayewardene, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said if Sri Lanka had been able to sustain the socio-economic reforms initiated by the late ...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien, a date which yielded a spate of memorializing essays. I didn’t write one because although I’m currently reading “The ...