By Rajpal Abeynayake | Sunday Observer

By Rajpal Abeynayake

What’s behind a legal-eagle’s lament against 20 A?
That Colombo campus legal luminary by reputation, Savithri Gunasekera made a legal argument not many months back about Parliament being required to convene without lapse of no longer than three months. She stated in an article in the public domain that such a provision is constitutionally mandated. The Supreme Court in a manner of speaking at least, laughed that...
27 September, 2020
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Hallucinations for those who see demons in the 20th Amendment
Until a new Constitution is promulgated, Sri Lanka has a distinctly...
2020-09-19 18:30:00 0
Those who rail against the 20th Amendment, should realise they invited it
This is being written even as there are aggrieved noises being made...
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Drug underworld comes apart, but critics tilt at windmills
The environment issue should not trump the drug issue, but it’s...
2020-09-05 18:30:00 0
Mapping end of history in Northern theatre
It’s the end of history for Tamil politics, they say — or the Tamil...
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What’s raging is not the pandemic, but the recovery
Why should there be great prospects for an economy, when the general...
2020-08-22 18:30:00 0
Background noise about Sabry and other Cabinet appointees
The single most important practical task facing the new Cabinet and...
2020-08-15 18:30:00 0
The watershed that pales 1956 into insignificance
This takes time to sink in. The people have spoken with a two-thirds...
2020-08-08 18:30:00 0
Between change and continuity, a choice was already made
The campaign season now having drawn to a close, the people have to...
2020-08-01 18:30:00 0
Each part of the system got rigged — even the most sacred
Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last week acknowledged in...
2020-07-25 18:30:00 0
Election season Tamil politics and class politics on cue
Mr. Abraham Sumanthiran, in a recent TV interview said that there are...
2020-07-18 18:30:00 0
Crossroads between Parliament and Entitlement
It’s perhaps not the time to wonder what the Independence Square...
2020-07-04 18:30:00 0
Making bankers work — the story of the stimulus and the criticism
Apparently there is a recipe for economic resurgence. When Small...
2020-06-27 18:30:00 0
You may want the election independently of the Independent Commission
There is a tide in the affairs of men, in which statecraft becomes...
2020-06-13 18:30:00 0
Industry forgot the working class in the Covid-19 rebound
It’s sad to lose a unionist, especially at this time — but that’s...
2020-05-30 18:30:00 0
Trying their luck with the Hizbullah case, and everything else
Nineteen. It’s the number that the other legal shyster Jayampathy...
2020-05-16 18:30:00 0
A closer look at the Opposition that’s pious about ‘democracy’ today
There should have been a provision in the Constitution that an...
2020-05-02 18:30:00 0
Countries taking a flexible outlook will have a better exit route
People haven’t yet heard the last word on the Covid 19 pandemic, and...
2020-04-25 18:30:00 0
The pound of flesh outcry over the Sunil Ratnayake pardon
It’s entirely predictable that Army Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake’s pardon...
2020-04-18 18:30:00 0
As things improve, let’s hope for the best, but prepare for the worst
There is no expert in the country who can answer the question ‘when,...
2020-04-11 18:30:00 0
COVID-19’s economic fallout has to be fought on a war-footing
Remember those times the foreign media reported on curfews in Sri...
2020-03-28 18:30:00 0
The Opposition can either coexist, or co-perish
The elections, Covid 19 and the economy are not issues that operate...
2020-03-21 18:30:00 0
Mandate to apprehend bond scammers
If the Attorney General has issued an arrest warrant and the CID is...
2020-03-14 18:30:00 0
19 A: A disaster and an imminent calamity
The April 25 poll, is the stability election. It’s the electoral...
2020-03-07 18:30:00 0
UNP: The party that couldn’t build highways or bring justice
Roads, and roads to justice are two different things. But, we’ll get...
2020-02-29 18:30:00 0
SLPP — THE PIVOTAL POLITICAL MOVEMENT OF THIS CENTURY
To place on record the political significance of the SLPP, is not to...
2020-02-22 18:30:00 0
THE ECONOMY AS A SUBJECT, SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
If there is an economy worth talking about, there is no need to crow...
2020-02-15 18:30:00 0
A two-thirds is the people’s prerogative to restore order and a functioning democracy
The din against the Government’s request for a two-thirds majority at...
2020-02-08 18:30:00 0
Please be good to our great Chinese friends - out with the fake news!
It’s such a pity, what social media and media in general is doing to...
2020-02-01 18:30:00 0
Watch for the Most Valuable Player, as election looms
Picking the most valuable player in a cricket tournament may be a tad...
2020-01-25 18:30:00 0
A FIVE YEAR LEGACY: malice, far too much toxicity
So much malice has seeped into the innards of the system, that it’s...
2020-01-18 18:30:00 0
THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN:
Those voice recordings, they were no rama lama ding dong. Everybody...
2020-01-11 18:00:00 0
NO CLICHé: The old order changeth
The United National Party is in a vegetative state, on virtual life...
2020-01-04 18:30:00 0
With a passing decade, the ‘national’ in nationalization
For ten years without war, there should have been something better to...
2019-12-28 18:30:00 0
Mending the national psyche: Restoring military pride, the first order of business
It is peacetime, but the armed forces have had to recover from a...
2019-12-21 18:30:00 0
Work, cults and pushback: The politics of the unusual
When an iconoclastic new journey is embarked upon, there is one thing...
2019-12-14 18:30:00 0
It’s all in the wall: the art of nation building
If it’s just art, valid question is why the novel wall art tendency...
2019-12-07 18:30:00 0
A complete reset, and a belief that nothing is impossible
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says that he wants to renegotiate the...
2019-11-30 18:30:00 0
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and the woke reality of a landslide
The 11 percentage point, 14 lakh lead by which Gotabaya Rajapaksa won...
2019-11-23 18:30:00 0
No alternative but to hear the people’s voice
If the people’s voice is not heard, the country would be rife for...
2018-12-15 18:30:00 0
‘Tin pot’ doesn’t begin to describe damage done to our democracy
Democracies work when constitutions are drafted to ensure that the...
2018-12-08 18:30:00 0
If Razak was arrested in Malaysia, why not Ranil?
Single issues have caused governments to collapse, and memorably such...
2018-12-01 18:30:00 0
The fixed term excuse, a fiction, when UNP can face polls
Britain’s Fixed Term Parliament has decidedly become a Not So Fixed...
2018-11-24 18:30:00 0
Ranil’s mentality pushed country into current impasse
Ranil Wickremesinghe would not be the UNP leader for an eternity, but...
2018-11-17 18:30:00 0
Dissolution the only way out
When Parliament was dissolved with effect from midnight on Friday...
2018-11-10 18:30:00 0
IGNORE THE PEOPLE’S VOICE AT YOUR OWN PERIL
It takes a strange sort of political animal to forget the vox populi...
2018-11-03 18:30:00 0

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