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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The 2022 people’s uprising reverberates in the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. The prospects for progressive change in Sri Lanka rest on the political and social dynamics of the next few ...

Voters backed Marxist coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, rejecting an old guard accused of leading the country into ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president, promising to bolster the economy and fight corruption.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, was declared the winner of the Sri Lankan ...

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