By Darini Rajasingham Senanayake* AI-generated image perceived by Nastranis. – Photo: 2025 InDepthNews2025-08-12 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 12 August 2025 (IDN) — Real and staged crises present opportunities to reorient, innovate and think outside the box. Trump’s tariff ‘shock’ presents Sri Lanka’s business sector and national policy makers an opportunity for short, intermediate and long-term […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Real and staged crises present opportunities to reorient, innovate and think outside the box.  Trump’s tariff ‘shock’ presents Sri Lanka’s business sector and national policy makers an opportunity for short, intermediate and long term economic and industrial policy shift out of the current neocolonial, services heavy, economic model. At this time, the focus […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake There are remarkable patterns of history, organized violence, and Disinformation between events leading to the pogrom and forced population displacements in Sri Lanka in 1983, and British occupied Palestine, 35 years earlier when the Nakba unfolded amid Cold War escalating in Europe. Both, Ceylon and Palestine were British occupied in 1948, and both […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Was the same Playbook to unmake Multiculturalism and stage the Palestine Nakba (catastrophe) for the violent birth of Israel in May 1948 used years later in the July 1983 pogrom and staged riots in Sri Lanka?  Moreover, were the same foreign institutional forces, clandestine actors and networks involved? Our Sri Lankan Nakba, which […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake There are remarkable patterns of history, organized violence, and Disinformation between events leading to the pogrom and forced population displacements in Sri Lanka in 1983, and British occupied Palestine 35 years earlier as the Nakba unfolded amid Cold War escalating in Europe between the Allies and Soviet Union or Axis Powers. Both, Ceylon […]

An Analysis by Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake with Pascal Lottaz at Neutrality Studies See full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkre0dQCJRw In a recent discussion, Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, a social and medical anthropologist with a focus on international development and political economy, provided an in-depth analysis of the current situation in Sri Lanka. She also discussed ongoing crises in […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The Iberian Peninsula including Spain, Portugal, and parts of France faced mysterious electricity outages last month. Spain had an extended countywide Blackout–the worst electricity failure in any developed country in modern times. London’s Heathrow Airport, one of the world’s business airports also experienced a power failure and a total shut down over a […]

by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Whither India’s Global Peace Making? In the cover image Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, abbreviated NSF Diego Garcia, is a British Ministry of Defence facility leased to the United States Navy, located on the atoll Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius. Africa), from which US Air Force can use to target Iran The […]

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake There have been several geopolitical developments in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region. These include United States Vice President J.D Vance’s visit with his Indian origin wife, Usha and their children to India in April and the staging of terror attacks on tourists in Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which were instantly blamed on […]

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake Ironically, Prime Minister Modi was in Saudi Arabia when the attacks happened in Pahalagam, Kashmir, and he cut short his visit to the Kingdom to return to Delhi. In the wake of the attacks, the global corporate media echo chamber seemed taken with the prospect of a war between nuclear armed India […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The Easter Attacks, Mossad’s Foot Prints and Britain’s Keenie Meenie Mercenaries in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province, and Ill Winds across the Indian Ocean Leaders of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka have called again for a new investigation into the Easter attacks staged six years ago. Meanwhile, a local political blame-game, starring Pillayan, […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Leaders of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka have again called for a proper investigation into the Easter attacks staged six years ago. Meanwhile, a local political blame-game, starring Pillayan, to conceal the foreign finger prints and geopolitical motives of the attacks has ramped up. Cover up investigations and copious Disinformation in the […]

By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake* InDepthNews2025-02-03 Of ‘GLADIO’ Operations, Raj Nostalgia History and Literary Festivals COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 3 February 2025 (IDN) — Independence has been a long mirage in Ceylon / Sri Lanka, where history seems to repeat itself as tragedy and farce in equal measure. This week, the geostrategic Indian Ocean island is set […]

Dr Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake With the wisdom of hindsight, as well as new research based on de-classified material and evidence from various archives, including the British Archives and the US Library of Congress, it is now clear that when the British crown colony of Ceylon morphed into a British Dominion with the spectacular Pageant of Ceylon […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Independence has been a long mirage in geostrategic Ceylon/ Sri Lanka where history seems to repeat itself as tragedy and farce in equal measure. This week, the geostrategic Indian Ocean island is set to mark 77 years of faux Independence from the British Raj. There will be much pomp and pageantry to mask […]

ධරණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක ණය යුක්තිය ඉටු කිරීමේ ප්‍රතිඥාව මත විශාල ජනවරමක් ලද නව ජාතික ජන බලවේග ආණ්ඩුවට මධුසමයක් හිමි නොවනු ඇත. වොෂින්ටනයේ සිට හමා එන කුණාටුව නැගෙනහිරෙන් චීනය ද, බටහිරෙන් ඉරානය ද, කේන්ද්‍රයෙන් ඉන්දියාවද ඉලක්කකරමින් ඉන්දියානු සාගර ලෝකය හරහා හමා යයි.  එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් මෙහෙයවන සම්බාධක යුද්ධයද රටවල් රැසක් මත බලපෑම් සිදු කරමින් පවතී. BRICS […]

By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Courtesy Eurasia Review There will be no honeymoon for the newly minted National People’s Power (NPP) Government that got a massive people’s mandate for debt justice. The storm blowing from Washington DC across the Indian Ocean World—targeting China to the East, Iran to the West, and now, India at the centre—is growing […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake There will be no honeymoon for the newly minted National People’s Power (NPP) Government in Colombo. The storm blowing from Washington across the Indian Ocean World–targeting China to the East, Iran to the West, and now it seems, India in the Middle is growing. Development projects that promised much needed foreign investment in […]

ආචාර්ය ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක ආචාර්ය ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක ණය ප්‍රතිව්‍යුහගතකරණයේ සාර්ථකත්වය පිළිබඳ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව හොඳ උදාහරණයක්[i] බව ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ ප්‍රධානියාවන ක්‍රිස්ටිනා ජෝර්ජියේවා පසුගිය මාසයේ වොෂින්ටනයේ පැවැති වාර්ෂික රැස්වීමේදී පවසා තිබේ. නමුත් ඇය විසින් නොපවසන ලද දෙය නම් මෙම උපායමාර්ගික වශයෙන් වැදගත් දිවයින බංකොළොත්” යැයි ප්‍රකාශයට පත්කරන විට තිබූ ණය ප්‍රමාණය වන ඩොලර් බිලියන 26 ජාත්‍යන්තර […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake At Annual Meetings in Washington last month International Monetary Fund head, Kristalina Georgieva claimed Sri Lanka as a debt restructuring ‘success’ story.[i]  Left unsaid by the IMF’s Managing Director was that Sri Lanka’s debt had apparently ballooned from $26 billion to a purported whopping $100 billion during two years of reforms’ under the […]

Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The list of recent IMF program successes is long. Barbados and Benin, Cabo Verde and Costa Rica, Moldova and Morocco, Suriname and Sri Lanka, to name but a few’, triumphantly declared the International Monetary Fund head, Kristalina Georgieva at Annual Meetings in Washington last month.[i]  Heedless of repeated calls for reform to give […]

Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake International Monetary Fund head, Kristalina Georgieva, claimed Sri Lanka as a debt restructuring ‘success’ story at the Annual Meetings in Washington last month.[i]  Left unsaid was the fact that the geostrategic county’s debt had ballooned from $ 26 billion to a purported whopping $100 billion during two years of debt restructuring under […]

 Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Oct 18, 2024 During his speech at the BRICS Business Forum, President Vladimir Putin, in particular, praised bilateral cooperation between BRICS members and the group’s growing global clout. Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed participants of the BRICS Business Forum ahead of the 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan, due to open early next […]

ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක Decolonizing History and Fiction in a Neo Colony මැයෙන් පළවූ ලිපියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක සාධාරණත්වය අපිරිසිදුය-අපිරිසිදුකම සාධාරණය.” විලියම් ෂේක්ස්පියර්ගේ මැක්බෙත් නාට්‍යයෙන් ලංකාව නැතහොත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ පොදු ආගම්, පොදු භාෂාවන් හෝ එකම ඉතිහාසයක් බෙදා හදාගෙන සාපේක්ෂ ලෙස සමගියෙන් ජීවත්වන අතර පරම්පරා ගණනාවක් තිස්සේ සහ අන්තර්- විවාහ සිදුකර ගත් ලෞකික බහු සංස්කෘතික […]

ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක (2024 සැප්තැම්බර් මස 14 වැනි දින Are the IMF and US Dollar fit for purpose? Beyond Election Puppet Shows and Economic Gaslighting in the Faux Anthropocene” ලංකා වෙබ් අඩවියේ පළ වූ ලිපියේ පරිවර්තනය) ධරිණි රාජසිංහම් සේනානායක ජනාධිපතිවරණ වේදිකාව තුළ ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ විසින් ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල සමග වන ඔහුගේ ආණ්ඩුවේ ණය තිරසාරකරණ […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake September 23, 2024 Update by Gospa News Editorial Staff The leader of the opposition alliance National People’s Power, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Lankan news portal Newsfirst reported. Dissanayake was supported by 5,740,179 voters after second ballot count. His closest rival, Sajith Premadasa, leader of United People’s Power, scored […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP and rival political parties alike had ignored wider geopolitical developments that may contribute to such a dawn given the globally networked nature of […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake In the run up to elections President Ranil Wickramasinghe has portrayed his government’s Debt Sustainability Agreement (DSA) with the International Monetary Fund as a panacea for Sri Lanka’s globally networked ‘polycrisis’. Minister of Finance, Shehan Semasinghe, meanwhile, claimed that ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA) to the lender of last resorts, the IMF. Amending […]

Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake* InDepthNews2024-08-07 Decolonizing History and Fiction in a Neo Colony Fair is foul and foul is fair”— William Shakespeare’s Macbeth COLOMBO | 7 August 2024 (IDN) — Why are there no Booker Prize-winning novels about mundane multicultural families that inter-married for generations, shared religion/s, language/s, histories, and co-existed for centuries, while living in […]

Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Fair is foul and foul is fair”— William Shakespeare, Macbeth Why are there no Booker Prize-winning novels about mundane multicultural families that inter-married for generations, shared religion/s, language/s, histories, and co-existed for centuries, while living in relative harmony in Ceylon/ Sri Lanka? Is the trope of ‘dark natives’ engaged in endless, chaotic […]