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  Heading to Gadarene Slope on COVID-19 cremation

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on December 18, 2020

  FEAR when combined with falsehood and insular inward-looking nationalism make a potent combination that can lead to the brutalisation of society in the short term...

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  Coping with multiple crises in Sri Lanka

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on December 10, 2020

  THE initial optimism that accompanied president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ascension to the presidency is wearing thin in the face of the seemingly insurmountable problems he has...

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  Gotabaya can achieve where other leaders failed

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on December 03, 2020

  DESPITE its small size Sri Lanka has occasionally been prominent on the world scene for both good reasons and bad. Sri Lanka gained much positive...

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  People’s continued trust requires equitable governance

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on November 25, 2020

  THE budget debate taking place at this time is when the country has suffered a setback in its efforts to keep the COVID-19 pandemic at...

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  Govt alone can’t win war against COVID-19

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on November 19, 2020

  THE sudden spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus has caught both the government and larger society by surprise and generated collective alarm. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has...

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  Healing divisions post-election is the challenge

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on November 12, 2020

  IN 1961, shortly after his election victory, president-elect John F Kennedy quoted one of the first colonists of the US, John Winthrop who, in the...

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  Lanka govt needs be more inclusive, humane

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on November 06, 2020

  THE rapid spread of the coronavirus has become the focus of national attention. The extension of the three-day lockdown and 24-hour curfew that was imposed...

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  Instrument of modernising government

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on October 21, 2020

  THE ongoing investigation into the Easter bombing in 2019 which created hundreds of victims and brought the country’s economy to its knees, reveals more and...

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  Civic, political pressure mounts against 20th amendment

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on October 16, 2020

  IT HAS taken more than a month for the concerns regarding the proposed 20th amendment that have been expressed by a wide swathe of opposition...

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  Lanka: strong govt is disciplined govt

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on September 23, 2020

  THE government has announced that the draft 20th amendment bill will be presented to parliament on Tuesday. It will be the same version that caught...