Author: Shiran Illanperuma

Protectionism – the word evokes entirely negative connotations in debates over economic policy in Sri Lanka. Conventional wisdom is that…

China’s ability to feed 20 percent of the world’s population, with just around 7 percent of the world’s arable land,…

Although liberal imperialists claim virtues of reasoned argument, neutrality, fact checking, and providing space to contrary views, these clearly take…

Members of the "core group" taking Sri Lanka to task in Geneva have killed at least 40,000 people in Venezuela…

The Port of Colombo was deliberately distressed in order to justify a private partner for the East Container Terminal.

73 year after achieving dominion-hood, the true legacy of colonialism is yet to be fully uncovered, studied, and reversed.

Pro-privatization liberals who compare ethnic chauvinism in Sri Lanka to Nazi Germany have more in common with Hitler than they…

Importers, landlords and tax-holidaying foreign companies rarely register as "rentiers" in the minds of neoliberals.

The actual proponents of neoliberalism might have a fit if told that the Rajapaksas are in their camp.

While Sri Lanka's Anglophilic mainstream media fuss over the US elections, we are missing crucial developments in China.

The JVP claims to oppose Mike Pompeo, but on the topic of China, they align with his "predator" rhetoric.

කොලඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ වාමාංශික ආචාර්යවරයෙක් වන නිර්මාල් රංජිත් දේවසිරි ‘බටහිර අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය’ ඊනියා ‘චීන අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයට’ වඩා හොඳ යැයි තර්ක කරයි.

The Sinophobic rhetoric coming from the New Left intelligentsia is a “red” carpet for Mike Pompeo's threatened visit to Sri…

Colombo-based Advocata Institute has repeatedly provided a platform for Ricardo Hausmann, an advisor to a right-wing, U.S. backed coup government…

The 50th anniversary of the death of Egyptian revolutionary Gamal Abdel Nasser is a good time to revisit his legacy,…

Anagarika Dharmapala wanted to build industries. Today, people invoke his name to build their careers.

Professor Sumanasiri Liyanage’s analysis of China and the Belt and Road Initiative does little more than fall in line with…

The Left has always been in the business of institution building. But the difference between the Old Left and New…

Sri Lankans should wholeheartedly condemn unilateral sanctions imposed on the few countries that not only dare to follow their own…

Much is being said these days about traditional industries, but is our definition of “traditional” limited by orientalist stereotypes?