Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 04/10/2015 - 05:51
Paper No. 5911 Dated 10-Apr-2015
By Bhaskar Roy
When Sri Lanka’s new President Maithripala Sirisena recently visited China he was literally squeezed by the Chinese leaders not to review the Chinese investments and infrastructure projects in his country and secure Chinese interests.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 04/02/2015 - 07:08
Paper No. 5904 Dated 02-Apr-2015
Guest Column by Prof. Charles Sarvan
This is a difficult document to read. Speaking figuratively, Shakespeare’s Macbeth said that he had eaten too much of horrors. So it is with reading one testimony, one horror, after another: an emotional revulsion sets in; a wish to set a mental distance, if not escape.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 03/03/2015 - 07:30
Paper No. 5884 Dated 03-Mar-2015
By Col. R. Hariharan
(This is the text updated on March 2, 2015 of the presentation made at a national seminar on “Understanding China – Indian perspective” organised jointly by the Chennai Centre for China Studies, and Institute for China Studies and the Nelson Mandela chair for Afro-Asian Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University at Kottyam on February 27 and 28, 2015.)
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 05:43
Paper No. 5855 Dated 08-Jan-2015
Guest Column by Professor Ramu Manivannan
There is a systemic crisis in Sri Lanka and the advanced stage of the cancerous polity will climax in the near future. The post-independent polity in Sri Lanka was never allowed to form itself.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 12/24/2014 - 07:21
Paper No. 5850 Dated 24-Dec-2014
By Col. R. Hariharan
[Answers to questions raised by an international news agency on the subject in an e-mail interview on Dec 23rd.]
Any narrative on Sri Lanka would be incomplete if India's overwhelming influence in Sri Lanka is not considered. It comes from India's huge geographic size, economic strength and global political influence from times immemorial.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 07:08
Paper No. 5843 Dated 16-Dec-2014
By Col. R. Hariharan
After President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his surprise challenger Maithripala Sirisena, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), who quit his office as Minister, filed their nominations for the Presidential election on January 8, 2015 the contest has become exciting.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 12/05/2014 - 10:10
Paper No. 5839 Dated 05-Dec-2014
By Dr. Parasaran Rangarajan
The focus of this paper is to highlight the need for economic independence combined with political support of India when seeking autonomy in the context of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
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