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By Kumar David Is Lanka important enough for international actors such as India, China, America, Britain, Japan and the QUAD to squabble over? The answer seems to be a surprising yes. In the case of India it is entirely to be expected. Recall that America threatened nuclear war when Cuba stationed Soviet missiles, China’s 9-dash […]

By Kumar David Experts rarely layout the longer view of Lanka’s impasse in simple words. Political manifestos are all boringly much the same except a difference in emphasis between the roles of state and market. I do not touch on a What Next Programme today; that will have to wait. I wish to take a […]

There is no escaping the reality that the Thursday night Pangiriwatte Mawatha protests near President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Mirihana home was an outpouring of mass anger at the hardships the people are bearing at present. The poor, as always, are the worst hit but others too are at the end of their tether coping with gas […]

By Kumar David Sun Tzu says: “Build your enemy a golden bridge to retreat” (The Art of War). The Rajapaksa Regime and Government, that is the GR and the MR-BR faces of the political coin, are battered and bruised, cornered and desperate. The economy is dying, rats are jumping ship, dollar-coffers bleeding. “If they come […]

By Kumar David It is absurd to attempt to predict the outcome of the presidential elections due in about three years, but it is possible to make a broad survey of current trends. There are four runners eyeing the starting post, in alphabetical order of initials they are AKD (the JVP-NPPS Anura Kumara Dissanayake), GR […]

By Kumar David “Now is the worst not the best of times; an age of foolishness not wisdom; a season of darkness not light; more despair than hope” (with apologies to Dickens). Up till about three decades ago people took sides passionately. Aficionados of Soviet Communism were fervent in their defence of Stalin and admitted […]

By Kumar David Polite commentators are bashful and write in the future tense. They avoid the present and prefer “on edge”, “critical” and “reeling”, but this is asinine. It has already happened; all that is pending are food riots. “The president (of Sri Lanka) appealed to visiting Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi that it would […]

Know Your Candidates: Contestants from Etah Assembly Seat in Elections 2022 : #RashtraNews #Candidates #Contestants #Etah #Assembly #Seat #Elections The Etah Assembly seat will be voting in the third phase of Uttar Pradesh election on February 20. A total of 59 constituencies will vote in Phase 3 of UP polls 2022. The Firozabad Assembly election […]

By Kumar David In two previous pieces I have inclined to the view that war in Europe (Ukraine-Russia-NATO) is unlikely. I continue to remain of that view but this article is about what may be the course of events if the entanglement goes the other way (“unlikely” is not the same as impossible). Let me […]

By Kumar David The world has been spared a Third World War thanks to deterrence, that is the threat of mutual destruction. If only one nation possessed nuclear weapons all others would be enslaved. Likewise, should the threat of a military regime surface anywhere in the world, only the presence of countervailing opposition to ensure […]