You can only have a foreign exchange shortage if you're trying to fix the price of that foreign exchange. A government that doesn't know this … well, perhaps we shouldn't be all that surprised that they're also having problems with debt.
Sri Lanka’s president has named a veteran anti-Muslim agitator to head a legal reform task force. Critics have called the move “incomprehensible”, but it is readily understood as a way to divert discontent among the government’s Sinhala Buddhist base toward an embattled minority.
Expecting India to bail Sri Lanka out every time there is a crisis may work for some time, but it's a recipe for disaster.
Sri Lankan children sit on tree branches as they access their online lessons from a forest reserve in their village in Bibila, Sri Lanka. Photo: Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo
A Leaked Special Report from December 2019
Sri Lanka's decision to move to organic farming is not behind its food shortage given that a majority of the farmers have not even started the transition process.
By Vineet Kumar
By Basil Fernando
A guy enters into two prisons with a gang of his friends. In one of the prisons he threatens a group of prisoners undergoing trial by placing his pistol on the forehead of one.
The role of a professional Foreign Secretary– public servant as opposed to a politician – is traditionally associated with being measured and articulate.
