Copenhagen (13/11 – 37.5) When Ranil Wickremesinghe took over as Sri Lanka’s president in July after a popular uprising ousted his predecessor, the South Asian island nation was engulfed in its worst economic meltdown in 75 years. Since then, President Wickremesinghe has...
Brussels (12/11 – 57) The stories of exile, exclusion and expulsion of indentured labourers from Tamil Nadu in Sri Lanka’s plantations suggests lessons to be learnt not only for their sakes, but for all mankind. This year, which marks the 200th year of the arrival of those exceptional...
London (11/11 – 40) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended Sri Lanka’s membership with immediate effect, citing government interference in its administration. Sri Lanka’s sports ministry had dismissed Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) board and replaced it with an interim committee...
Toronto, Atlanta (10/11 – 50) As recently as the early 1980s, central bankers around the world could be heard moaning and groaning about having to hold physical gold reserves to back up their currencies. The trouble, expense and potential loss of picturesque cast metal in a world of...
Brussels, Frankfurt (10/11 -12) Words like ‘neocolonialism’ and ‘neo-imperialists’ are being tossed around by spokesmen of freshly-installed military regimes in Central and West Africa – but the language of their pronouncements is French, reflecting the centuries of invasion, cooperation...
