Sri Lanka elected its first left-wing president on September 21. Anura Kumara Dissanayake received 42 percent of votes cast, ...

The main reason for worrying about Mr Dissanayake is not that he is a zealot. It is that he has little experience in ...

The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most ...

Ignoring the democratic aspirations of voters across South Asia has put New Delhi in an awkward position with a slew of new ...

Marxist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters ...

Far from simply balancing between the major powers, Dissanayake and the JVP/NPP have made abundantly clear that his ...

“A high-level IMF team led by Krishna Srinivasan, Director for the Asia Pacific Department, will be visiting Colombo October ...

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), now in power as the National People’s Power (NPP), has evolved, and the distinction ...

Following the Sri Lankan presidential elections, Stanly Johny and Meera Srinivasan discuss Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory ...

The rapacious Sri Lankan elites see the IMF’s harsh austerity demands as encouraging greater foreign direct investment and ...

On September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi ...

Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s presidential election would have been ...