In an impassioned speech delivered before the Steering Committee of the Parliament M. A. Sumanthiram, the spokesperson for the TNA, argued the case for federalism which is by far the most plausible presentation I...

One of the main reasons that exacerbated the North-South relations in the post-independent era has been the total distortion of historical realities by a sizeable segment of our intellectuals who believed that history was...

Dost thou know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed – Count Oxenstierna, 17th century Swedish statesman.     After attending the UNHRC sessions in Geneva, 2012, Dr. Noel Nadesan, novelist...

G.G Ponnambalam ‘FIFTY, FIFTY’  Speech   Please click on the cover image to open the book

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It is by looking back that one can detect how coming events had cast their shadows across the political landscape. In the previous article I showed how the two major events that were staged on...

Three separate political events that gathered momentum and ran in three different directions to dominate the political landscape in the post-independent era took place simultaneously on February 4, 1948 — the first Independence Day...

In a drama never seen in the Westminster tradition, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had brazenly escorted his closest partner in cut-throat politics, Ravi Karunanayake, to the front benches of the House on the day...