As much as economic revival, governance issues seem to have gained traction with the voters, if not more read more A high ...

His party, the JVP, twice fought violent battles to overthrow the very Sri Lankan state that he now wants to run.

Were the JVP/NPP to come to power, it would rapidly come into open and violent conflict with the working class, using ...

As Sri Lanka goes to polls on September 21, one of the country’s top concerns remains the 2022 economic crisis and its impact ...

This tiny 11-kilometre-long, six-kilometre-wide strip, 30 kilometres off the coast of northern Sri Lanka, is the country's ...

An edited image of an Indian news broadcast has been shared repeatedly online alongside a false claim it showed Sri Lankan opposition candidate Sajith Premadasa had won the island nation's upcoming ...

Now the countdown to the three-cornered presidential tussle is on days, not weeks. Perhaps in another three or four days, ...

How will we look back on the elections of 2024, in a decade or two from now? The upcoming presidential and parliamentary ...

Sajith Premadasa and Ranil Wickremesinghe follow closely behind, as voters search for a leader who can lead them out of the ...

To understand the place of cricket in people’s lives, I carried out ethnographic fieldwork with a diverse group of people across Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo. This ‘cricket community’ included amateur ...

The SEP fights for a socialist alternative against imperialist war, austerity and the slashing of basic social rights, and ...

In general, barring data analysis, the perception in the yesteryears had been that Muslims are the kingmakers at an election.