Between April and June 2024, the Sri Lankan economy grew faster than anticipated, giving a positive hue to the process which the country has undertaken
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At a time when China is jostling with India for influence in its South Asian neighbourhood, New Delhi hopes that whoever comes to power in Colombo will not act against India’s interests
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The concern of the majority Sinhala-Buddhist voter is who can get the economy to rebound and rebuild the shattered political and administrative system of the country
The disillusionment with traditional political parties may have opened the door for the JVP candidate to race ahead in this election but polls show no clear winner unless there is a last-minute surge for a candidate ahead of election day. Stability is paramount for the island nation and the public realises that need to vote wisely for the country’s future.
Sri Lankan politics was largely dominated by one family since 2005. However, this seems to have changed after the economic and national crisis of 2022 and in the current presidential election, there are 38 candidates in the fray.
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How different are the stories from those days of Emergency compared to the ones now?
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Gandhi’s principal legacy remains the systematic replacement of institutional governance with the vicious precedents of personalised rule
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Bhindranwale was able to get away with wrongdoings because ‘in the eyes of the Congress leadership in Delhi, Punjab had a Sikh problem since Independence’
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Indira Gandhi is dead and she cannot defend herself. But that doesn’t mean others can’t
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For many journalists, reporting in the volatile decade of the 1970s was both exciting and challenging
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Despite being under scrutiny during the Emergency, small journals like Himmat Weekly got around censorship by taking calculated risks
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Was the Emergency just a forerunner of what an authoritarian state could achieve?
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Bollywood has churned out a slew of biopics in the last decade, most of them formulaic. The latest among them, Kangana Ranaut-starrer Emergency, is yet to find a release date
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Political actors invoking the Emergency today would do well to remember the inheritance of Independence and the idea of India as a secular democratic republic, says Qurban Ali, son of former freedom fighter and Socialist leader Captain Abbas Ali
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Devotion to pure gratuitous shock renders the Nithari killings-inspired film coldly impersonal and questionable
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Comprising six plays and several open-air performances, the event — directed and performed by women — displayed stirring art and defiance
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Kangana Ranaut-led Emergency got embroiled in a massive controversy after Sikh organisations accused it of misrepresenting the community by distorting facts.
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