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Peoples Dispatch
Sri Lankan Tea Estate Workers Agitate for Better Pay
03 Oct 2020
Tea estate workers have demanded an increase in their daily wages to a minimum of LKR 1,000 (USD 5.42). They have also complained about plantation owners imposing productivity demands and wage cuts
M.K. Bhadrakumar
India’s Quad Dilemma in Sri Lanka
19 Sep 2020
What is the significance of Rajapaksa playing golf on a Chinese turf on Modi’s 70th birthday?
PTI
Lankan Navy, Indian Ships Continue to Battle Oil Tanker Blaze, 1 Crew Dead
04 Sep 2020
The Panama registered tanker was carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude oil from Kuwait to India when its engine room caught fire two days ago off the coast of Sangamankanda.
PTI
Colombo Port Workers in Sri Lanka Stop Work in Protest Against Privatisation of ECT
01 Aug 2020
Workers are demanding a "written pledge" from Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa that Eastern Container Terminal would not be privatised by giving it to India.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
India Should be Wary of US ‘Pro-Activism’ on Lanka Tamil Issue
18 Feb 2020
Delhi’s approach to harmonise with Indo-Pacific strategy to pressure China is fraught with medium-term risks in the Sri Lankan context, especailly at a time when Dravida politics is in a flux in…
Peoples Dispatch
Sri Lankan Government Admits 10,000 ‘Missing’ Tamils were Killed in Violence
25 Jan 2020
Thousands of Tamils who had been categorized as ‘disappeared’ have now been declared dead by the Sri Lankan authorities . This is the first such admission by the Sri Lankan government since the civil…
Partha S. Ghosh
CAB: A Serious Threat to Every Idea of South Asia
13 Dec 2019
Forcing India to be homogenous will fracture it—and all of South Asia.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
The Return of the ‘Strongman’ in Sri Lanka
18 Nov 2019
Gotabaya Rajapaksa thumping victory is an assertion of Sinhala nationalism – a reflection of a manifest polarisation of the Sri Lankan electorate on religious and ethnic lines.
PTI
Lanka Polls Today: Gunmen Open Fire on Bus Convoy Carrying Muslim Voters
16 Nov 2019
Despite tight security, gunmen attacked a convoy of 100 buses transporting minority Muslim voters in northwest Sri Lanka, hours before polling got under way, AFP reported.
Bhasha Singh
Turmoil in Sri Lanka Doesn’t Seem to Be Nearing Its End
02 Sep 2019
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, brother of former strongman President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been named as the presidential candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.