Dilrook Kannangara Australia is desperate. Driven by US hegemony, Australia is on a mission to get anyone it can get to confront China. For this reason, the Australian Defence Minister was in Sri Lanka. The two countries agreed to strengthen defence cooperation and dialog but fell short of any concrete agreement. Sri Lanka has no […]

Dilrook Kannangara Influenced by China, Sri Lanka joined China’s attempts to push the trilingual inscription to be recognized by UNESCO. This is part of China’s soft power projection and also part of a plan to link the modern One Belt One Road to a historic parallel. The inscription found in Galle, Sri Lanka, contains Chinese, […]

Dilrook Kannangara There are 90 million Tamils globally and their population grows by more than 1 million each year. Those are massive numbers and don’t in anyway indicate suffering genocide”. Therefore, Canada’s Tamil genocide monument is a joke. It ridicules actual victims of genocide including original Canadians killed in their millions. In the case of […]

Dilrook Kannangara JVP won power in 265 LG bodies and the closest rival SJB only managed 14. ITAK and other minority parties are no challengers to the JVP. This is an astronomical election victory. UNP, SLPP, SLFP and others were essentially wiped out unable to win a single LG body! They lost the country and […]

Dilrook Kannangara Anura Kumara and Modi signed a number of agreements and the most significant is their defense pact which is shrouded in mystery. However, nothing remains under wraps in Sri Lanka as news travels fast. Indian media also published its contents in point form. Sri Lanka is now an aligned military partner of India […]

Dilrook Kannangara Voters are unforgiving. Sri Lankan voters can be quite nasty, merciless and even violent if they realize they have been taken for fools. If a political party wins power by deceiving people through lies and false promises, depending on the severity of those lies its lifespan will be cut short. The biggest public […]

Dilrook Kannangara Talks of a land bridge between India and Sri Lanka are buzzing once again. Those who feel nostalgic about the time when there was some kind of connectivity miss the point that it was built by the British to bring down slaves from India to Sri Lanka cheaply. While it served a colonial […]

Dilrook Kannangara Buddhists in India are protesting against Hindu occupation and management (rather mismanagement) of Bodh Gaya. Bodh Gaya is to Buddhists what Mecca is to Muslims and Jerusalem is to Christians and Jews. Buddhists are not appointed to the management of Hindu shrines; then why appoint Hindus to manage a Buddhist shrine? Only Buddhists […]

Dilrook Kannangara The world is heading into WW3. It is a matter of when. The only way it can be avoided is if the debt trap trounces them first. It is not the fault of an individual, a nation or a few of them. It is a clash of competing priorities, access to scarce resources, […]

Dilrook Kannangara Namal Rajapaksa and an SLPP delegation met US ambassador Julie Chung they previously despised openly. Although they stated that USAID was discussed, it is common knowledge that USAID is handled by a separate office of the US government with a separate office in Sri Lanka. Julie Chung is not associated with USAID projects […]

Dilrook Kannangara All of Sri Lanka’s miseries and problems boil down to its multiethnic nature which has led to conflicting policy priorities. One avenue of approach which may benefit one group, is not very beneficial to the other two groups. As a result, Sri Lanka is stuck in this trijunction unable to move. This is […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka had at least four (4) petroleum ministers since 2010 and people voted all of them out. It is obviously telling. It is also important to put facts right and not be fooled by political sob stories said by these rejects. What really happened to the 99 tanks in Trinco tank farm? […]

Dilrook Kannangara Forced by India, successive governments since 2012 have invested disproportionate amounts of money in schools in estate communities. From a layman’s point of view, it is a good” thing and it will bring good” outcomes. In reality, that’s not how things work. In fact, the outcome of it will be disastrous for Sri […]

Dilrook Kannangara It was reported that over one hundred Rohingyas are in a military-run camp in the north of the island. However, there may be others who have already made it to Sri Lanka and have become citizens. They must be sent back to their homeland – Burma or Bangladesh. Sri Lanka has a very […]

– දිල්රූක් කන්නන්ගර ජාතිකවාදය (nationalism) යනු උතුර, දකුණ, නැගෙනහිර සහ බටහිර යන සතර දිග්භාගයම එක්සේසත් කිරීමයි. මෙය 2024 මහා චන්දේදී මනාවට සිදුවුනා. අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන්ට එරෙහි ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය මෙන්ම 2024 චන්දය ජයගත් පක්ෂය සිංහල, දෙමළ සහ මුස්ලිම් ජන එකමුතුවෙන් රාජ්‍ය පාලනය දිනා ගත්තා. ඊට වැඩි ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයක් 15 වන සියවසේ සිට තිබී නැත. දැනට ඇත්තේ  ජාතිකවාදී (රටේම […]

Dilrook Kannangara The most decorated military officer of the Sri Lanka army has retired from all military posts after 41 years of service to the nation. These years saw most violence in the island nation. He was also one of only two four-star Generals of the army. He commanded not only the 58th Offensive Division […]

Dilrook Kannangara The island cannot sustain the entire human and animal population it currently has. It is an undeniable fact. The only solution is to cull the most damaging animals to its food security and economic activity. There isn’t enough food to go around for all. Unless humans are protected from hunger, malnutrition, under development […]

Dilrook Kannangara Economics was known as the dark science until the 19th century. When the demand and supply curve was presented to non-economics academics and others, they asked what happens to people who cannot meet the price demanded by suppliers? They simply cannot afford it came the answer which horrified them. What if suppliers were […]

Dilrook Kannangara NPP government received the largest percentage of votes in any parliamentary election in South Asia. What is more important is its mandate came from all ethnic and religious groups. It won all except one district. With 159 seats in parliament, it is the only party ever to rule Sri Lanka without a coalition. […]

Dilrook Kannangara LTTE commemorations once again highlighted the undeniable fact that all its organizers and essentially all Tamil Eelmists are Sri Lankan born. While Cyclone Fengal disrupted the planned large LTTE commemoration since 2009 the organizers have said they will hold it on another day. Indian born Tamils around the world are not keen in […]

Dilrook Kannangara Provincial council and local government elections are overdue. They must be held as soon as possible. Most government powers that matter to the people including healthcare, education, agriculture, etc. are provincial powers. Central government cannot deliver on any promise without these powers vested in provincial councils. Local government bodies are the grassroots level […]

Dilrook Kannangara Though the 2024 election outcome in the north, east and other areas of high minority population density seems promising of a united Sri Lanka, it has happened before. Yes; we have been through it before and the end was a disaster. When basic needs of minorities are challenged, they turn towards Sinhala political […]

Dilrook Kannangara The 2024 General Election is a watershed moment in Lankan history. Interestingly the total number of votes won by NPP still falls short of the number of votes Gotabaya won in 2019. It is not the quantity but the quality. NPP won around the country from all communities and creeds. No party has […]

Dilrook Kannangara All ruling parties since 1947 have been coalitions. While there were instances where a single party could form the ruling party, they still opted for coalitions (e.g. 1977). This was to gain as much support from the grassroots levels which helps in Local Government and later Provincial Council elections. 2024 has been a […]

Dilrook Kannangara The electorate is fractionalized as never before. SJB shares a disproportionately large chunk of the Muslim vote. It is so large comparatively that a large portion of SJB’s elected MPs will be Muslims. It is also supported by strong Muslim support for the SJB at the presidential election where Sajith won all Muslim […]

Dilrook Kannangara The year 2024 is shaping up to be the most important year in Sri Lanka’s history. It already had unprecedented political changes and more are on the way. Over 100 once powerful politicians have been reduced to zero; most of them have given up politics and elections. This is indeed the May-2009 moment […]

Dilrook Kannangara NPP scored a stellar election victory bagging the entire Christian Belt – Wattala, Ja-Ela, Katana, Negombo, Wennappuwa, Naththandiya and Chilaw.  In addition, electorates with a significant Christian population including Moratuwa, Dehiwala and Colombo West also went the NPP way.  Colombo North was once a Christian majority electorate but it is now a Hindu […]

Dilrook Kannangara When a new government is elected, doomsayers and losers say nothing will succeed. That is to vent their very own personal defeatist thoughts. That is not where I’m coming from. While wishing every success to the AKD government I wish to bring to the attention the challenges that are too steep for any […]

Dilrook Kannangara Anura Kumara won the most keenly contested Sri Lankan election with a large margin. He transformed the JVP into a modern and realistic political party. As a result, he won Colombo-7 along with other affluent Colombo suburbs (3,4,5,6). Same goes for suburbs with professionals including Homagama, Moratuwa, etc. His dramatic wins in former […]

Dilrook Kannangara සියලු පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ IMF වැඩපිළිවෙල ඉදිරියට ගෙන යාමට තීරණය කර ඇත. එය අගය කල යුතුය. එහෙත් එක කණ්ඩායමක් පමණක් ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අන්තගාමී වී ඇත. එම කණ්ඩායම හිතන්නේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ ලාංකිකයන් ජීවත් විය යුත්තේ සහ මියයා යුත්තේ IMF හාමු වහන්සේ සඳහාම බවයි. මෙය වැරදි ආකල්පයකි. සියලු IMF වැඩපිළිවෙලවල් තිබු රටවල් IMF වැඩපිළිවෙල රටේ […]