In India’s embrace?
India and Sri Lanka now appear to be shedding doubts and reservations about each other and getting closer in multiple ways simultaneously. India’s urgency to...
Why A Bear Market In Bonds Points To A Weakening Economy
After closing at 0.53 percent in July 2020 the yield on the ten-year US T-bond moved relentlessly higher, closing on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, at...
India lost its influence?
The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, including some former cadre of the defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), are “seriously concerned” over the large-scale and...
India’s Foreign Policy And US Strategic Directions Post-Afghanistan
The United States and India conjoined with a Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership and QUAD Security Dialogue stand challenged in 2021 in wake of Afghanistan Talibanisation...
Sri Lanka’s Food Crisis
Last month, as the rupee depreciated and inflation rose, panicked Sri Lankans queued up for hours to purchase scarce supplies of sugar, rice, lentils, and...
Organic Farming Mandate
In April, the Sri Lankan government banned the import and use of fertilizers and agrochemicals, including insecticides and herbicides, marking a significant step in their goal to become...
How the country’s economy slid?
Crisis is upon Sri Lanka. Last week, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa decreed a state of emergency over food supplies, the dollar was being sold for over...
General Debate on Human Rights
The Human Rights Council continued the general debate on the global human rights update presented by Michele Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...
India’s appetite for economic diplomacy
The Maldives and Sri Lanka, both highly tourism-dependent tropical islands, have seen the pandemic devastate their economies and finances. Government debt this year is expected...
Look forward to seeing concrete actions
Presenting an oral update on Sri Lanka at the 48th session of UNHRCUN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet today said that ” We...
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis poses challenges for India
India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy towards Sri Lanka had resonated with Sri Lanka’s ‘India First’ foreign and security policy in 2020. India is Sri Lanka’s third...
Not bound by any resolution passed without its consent
Replying to the follow up Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence on the visit to...
Financial crisis is one of the major challenges
The financial crisis in Sri Lanka is one of the first major challenges faced by the ruling Rajapaksa family as traders, importers and the opposition...
Is Sri Lanka’s Approach to Import Substitution Sensible?
In the immediate aftermath of the onset of the Covid19 pandemic and the unprecedented health and economic crises it unleashed, there was a widespread backlash...
Prospects for Pak-US Relationship under President Biden
Summary Since independence, Pakistan has followed one-sided pro-United States (US) policies. However, the relations have been mostly vacillating. In the current geostrategic environment, and amidst...