Sri Lanka Crisis Explained

Sri Lanka: Rajapaksas are gone, but will the ‘Rajapaksa rule’ continue?

The Rajapaksas’ control over the 115-member Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna group in the 225-seat Parliament may have waned, but not vanished

After Gotabaya, analysing who, what and when of Sri Lankan crisis

Answers can only be found when the confrontation between the government and the protestors is resolved amicably and a new President is elected on 20 July to restore some stability

India going the Sri Lanka way? A Left-liberal wishful thinking that’s as vicious as it is dangerous

Some people may be gleefully predicting a Sri Lanka-like economic collapse in India. But for the sake of a stable world order, India should not go the Sri Lanka way and once we look at facts and figures, we do realise that India is actually not heading in that direction

Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister has his job cut out, has to prove his ‘legitimacy’

Ranil Wickremesinghe fits the bill as the new PM, but in order to bring Sri Lanka out of the current mess, he has to curtail his temptation to get cross with his President

Nightmare of Sri Lankan streets: Museum destroyed, dozens dunked in lakes, hospital blocked

After being attacked by supporters of outgoing Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa, anti-government protesters went on a rampage across Sri Lanka. They vandalised a museum about the Rajapaksa family, torched houses of politicians, and damaged vehicles

Why President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s declaration of Emergency may not resolve Sri Lanka’s problems

With each passing day, there are questions about the origins of the unprecedented mass protests, accompanied by occasional violence, whose incidence and intensity could go up

Sri Lanka’s Opposition barking up the wrong tree by blaming presidential system for current mess

The chief Opposition party of the island nation has proposed a constitutional amendment to change its presidential system to a parliamentary system