International Relations of Sri Lanka

    D oes it make sense to you Indians to devolve Gujarat State into thirty different self-administrative provinces? Or Tamil Nadu into eighteen different self-administrative provinces? If it does not make any sense to you, nine provinces in Sri Lanka does not make any sense to us, to majority Sri Lankans, either. Bugger off...    T he whole Indian landmass, except her water-body, is 46 times larger than Sri Lanka (64,630 sq km). For ex, the Gujarat province (196,244 sq km) alone, where the Indian Prime Minister Modi was born into, is more than three times the size of Sri Lanka.      I f Modi insists that we Sri Lankans need nine self-governing provinces to handle our economy, police, land, education, health, agriculture and housing issues in Sri Lanka; Gujarat ought to have about thirty some self-governing provinces. May be Gujarat’s nine percent of Muslim population (9%) will like that nonsense proposal; especially as how things are unfolding for Mus...

    B roadly speaking, with proposed 20 th amendment to the constitution, or narrowing it down by saying the repeal of item (xiii) of sub-paragraph in article 91 in the constitution, the issue of Basil Rajapaksha’s potential return to Sri Lankan Parliament as a dual citizenship holder is hotly debated. Will he be able to take stately decision without adversely affecting the sovereignty of Sri Lanka? Do we have to inertly question the moral integrity of a decision made by a dual citizenship holder in state affairs? The nature of man is such that motherly and earthly inheritance cannot be cheated upon. Moreover, when the President Gotabaya calls the shots regarding Basil Rajapaksha, we Sri Lankans have to trust his judgment. Regardless this citizenship issue, we have to elect visionary and missionary enough statespersons to navigate us through potential hostile waters of Adam’s and Malacca Straits.      T hese is no doubt that years of residing in a foreign cou...