India tells Sri Lanka and Maldives size doesn’t matter. For how long?
India’s on-when-it wants and off-when it doesn’t security pacts with smaller neighbours is more destabilizing than the supposed risk from…
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Author: Omar Rajarathnam
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China – the driving force behind India’s RCEP snub and QUAD embrace
India has snubbed RCEP and embraced QUAD. The US has managed to slice a wedge between the two Asian powers…
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Funny Boy – is the film’s funny Tamil a cultural diplomacy fail?
Deepa Mehta wanted to tell Shyam Selvadurai’s story of a Tamil boy’s attraction to another. There is a hitch. The…
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A new US president: different wrapping paper, same ‘gift’
A US policy change on Sri Lanka under a Biden presidency is unlikely, what will change is its packaging, like…
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Can Sri Lanka be a player in COVID-19 diplomacy?
Sri Lanka has the potential to become a key player in pandemic diplomacy. What's needed is a government push to…
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The Muralidaran biopic – latest trigger in the Diaspora-Sri Lanka showdown
Muralithran is the first Sri Lankan sportsman to be immortalised in South India’s Tamil celluloid. The Tamil Diaspora is in…
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Sri Lanka stings UN with new appointments in New York and Geneva
Despite controversy, Sri Lanka’s nerve to name both Peiris and Chandraprema to top positions for UN representation has passed its…
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Why Sri Lanka must stay clear of the free-world’s TikTok bogey
For some TikTok is another social media platform, for many it is a lifestyle, one that provides validation that they…
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Bachelet cracks whip on Sri Lanka, goes easy on the biggies
Bachelet has a duty to highlight human rights violations committed across the world indiscriminately. She failed.
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Way forward with Sri Lankan-American Moragoda in India
The President could have Moragoda engage in Cabinet meetings periodically so Sri Lanka’s top legislators know how the nation’s point…
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ICJ is latest victim of US sanctions circus
‘The American Way of life is simply not sustainable because it doesn’t acknowledge the fact that there is a world…
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The 13th Amendment: India’s theatrics and Sri Lanka’s lack of clarity
An India First Policy and a repeal of the 13th amendment are two policy statements that cannot belong in one…