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Since the end of the war, Sri Lanka’s economy is being transformed through a rapid process of financialisation. Such widespread financialisation facilitated infrastructure development, a real estate boom linked to urbanisation and expansion of credit leading to increasing indebtedness of the (...)
Sri Lanka’s embassies have repeatedly warned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and other authorities of glaring shortcomings in the handling of local labour in West Asia–including an urgent need for Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) attachés in these missions to have minimum (...)
Following article is based on the presentation made by the writer at the 4th International Research Symposium titled ‘Sri Lanka in crisis: Search for a way out’ organised by the National Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Let me begin by providing a brief critique of (...)
2022 has seen the most dramatic uprising of people against the government’s tyrannical rule since independence. Amidst a devastating economic crisis, the people raised their voices against corruption, misrule and economic mismanagement, demanding greater democracy. Instead of heeding the (...)
Feminist Collective for Economic Justice Co-Founder, researcher, and activist Sarala Emmanuel says that the brunt of the economic crisis has been borne by women and the brunt of the recovery proposals will also be borne by women.
Following is an extract of the interview given to Channel News (...)
Countless images of women carers flitted through April-July 2022 on Sri Lankan television screens, social media, and newspapers. Carers with young children, mothers with new-borns leaving them with equally young children while they stood in queue for gas or kerosene, children doing their (...)
In his wisdom, President Wickremesinghe may think that provoking a violent rebellion is just the ticket to entrenching autocratic rule and driving an IMF-creditor program through. With a deepening and widening economic crisis, a 90% unpopularity rate, on an island which witnessed three major (...)
At the end of the 100-day protest staged by the North-East Co-ordinating Committee (NECC), a people’s declaration urging for a federal solution within a merged Northern and Eastern Province was delivered yesterday (8) in all eight districts of both provinces.
Speaking to The Morning, (...)
United Federation of Labour (UFL) is calling on the Central Bank to make public the steps it has taken for non-compliance of its regulations on foreign exchange transactions including repatriation of export proceeds.
It said the Section 9 (2) of the Monetary Law Act of 1949 (as amended) (...)
Academic, rights activist, and Member of Parliament Dr. Harini Amarasuriya delivered the keynote address at the Regional Conference on Equality and Equity in Recognising Unpaid Care Work and Women’s Labour in South Asia on 20-21 October, organised by the Women and Media Collective and Social (...)
The Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) and the Inter-University Bhikkhus’ Federation (IUBF) held a protest outside the Police Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) at Narahenpita against the TID’s failure to provide medical treatment to IUBF Convenor Ven. Galwewa Siridhamma Thera, who (...)
Activists of the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) and several other civil organisations – who travelled from Colombo Fort to Beliatta by train and from Beliatta to Tangalle by bus – staged a protest in Tangalle town yesterday (23), demanding the release of IUSF Convenor Wasantha (...)
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka was awarded the Booker Prize by Camilla, the Queen Consort this week, marking a proud moment for the whole country. The prestigious prize worth 50,000 pounds is presented to a work of fiction published in the United Kingdom in English.
Karunatilaka’s novel (...)
Red Cross’s 11-district survey reveals broad-ranging domino effects of the crisis on all social strata
A survey conducted across 11 districts of Sri Lanka has revealed that around 96% of people who were interviewed have been affected by the prevailing economic crisis in some material way, with (...)
A people’s “aragalaya” (struggle) has been organised by the Trade Union Co-ordination Centre (TUCC) with the participation of student unions, civil society organisations, social activists, teachers, principals, and trade unionists representing the Government, semi-Government, private, estate, and (...)
Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better
When Shehan Karunatilaka (...)
2022 has been a tumultuous year for Sri Lanka; a full blown economic, food, debt, energy and humanitarian crisis, resulting in a spectacular popular movement in March 2022 that succeeded in overthrowing an authoritarian and inept regime in a matter of months. But after the initial euphoria of a (...)
The question whether ‘the people’ of the North and East should or could protest in solidarity with the #GotaGoHome protest movement has been the subject of much debate (Pundir & Kanapathippillai 2022; Sandranathan 2022; Ellis-Petersen & Sandran 2022; De Soysa 2022; De Sayrah 2022). Since (...)
The energy crisis has hit both the producers and consumers of fish with a monstrous force. Fishers are out of sea: no fishing, no fish and no income!! Fish prices have reached unbelievingly high levels, some exceeding even Rs. 3,000/kg mark. Many families have neither physical nor economic (...)
Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown is worsening and it has pushed 2.7 million more people into the misery of poverty between last year and this year.
The rate of poverty has doubled to its highest level from more than a decade ago.
The Government revealed this week that an additional 867,696 Sri (...)
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