Month: August 2025

Here’s my latest piece of Sri Lankan political commentary for the DailyFT.  It addresses the recent arrest of former president Ranil Wickremesinghe on alleged corruption charges – an issue that has brought sharp divisions in public opinion to the fore. https://www.ft.lk/opinion/The-Great-Divide/14-780952

Here’s my review, published today in Sri Lanka’s DailyFT, of a new documentary about the life – and death – of  the courageous and farsighted Tamil intellectual cum politician Neelan Tiruchelvam, assassinated by the LTTE in summer 1999. https://www.ft.lk/opinion/Unsilenced-Neelan-Tiruchelvam-revisited/14-780059