International Relations of Sri Lanka

W orldly attention receives from super powers makes Sri Lanka a big power in regional politics and beyond. Unlike in good old days, in modern information age has rendered traditional invaders are a dying bread – except may be regarding Taiwan, few pockets in Eastern Europe and in Africa. So, at the beginning of second quarter, into the twentieth century, we have no doubt that our fifty three times bigger neighbor will not set a foot in that direction regarding her southernmost neighbor due to this out of proportion attention her receives from super powers. With this sort of worldly attention, Sri Lanka needs to think worldly and big and act modestly, asserts Dr. Jayanath Colombage, a former Navy Commander and current Secretary to Foreign Ministry. I t has all being really a curst that Sri Lanka is a small island with small island mentality for all its known history. Legends of King Ravana and real events of King Parakramabahu, whom one went flying and other went sailing to neighboring ...

    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...