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

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit Colombo this week for the first high-level engagement with newly elected ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake rode a wave of anger to power. But any Sri Lankan leader’s position is precarious today.

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 ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory in the presidential election signals the people’s desire for systemic change. While his ...

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

New Delhi will be watching how Dissanayake and his party’s close ties with China impact the regional power balance ...

Given the economic and geopolitical scenario, pragmatism is likely to take precedence — Sri Lanka will continue to balance between India and China.

The Aragalaya sweeps a bearded, 55-year-old son of a labourer into power.

The heading of this article is inspired by the title of Edgar Snow’s , “Red Star Over China”. Snow’s book first published in 1937 was a vivid account of his interaction with the Chinese communist ...