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Topic: Rajapaksa

Rajapaksa’s dark legacy looms large over Sri Lanka and won’t clear anytime soon

Taylor Dibbert -
Rajapaksa – alleged war criminal & autocrat – isn’t backing out from his claim to be Sri Lanka's prime minister.

‘We will uphold democracy’: Holed up in Colombo mansion, Ranil Wickremesinghe vows to fight

Iain Marlow -
While Wickremesinghe insists he holds a majority in parliament, former president Rajapaksa enjoys support for ending the country’s brutal 26-year civil war.

Sri Lanka’s speaker warns of bloodshed as political crisis deepens

Iain Marlow -
Sri Lankan parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya fears violence if leadership struggle isn't settled in the legislature.

US wants Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena to immediately reconvene parliament

PTI -
Sirisena sacked PM Ranil Wickremesinghe last week and appointed former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new prime minister.

As Rajapaksa, the man India helped oust in 2015 becomes Sri Lanka PM, New Delhi watches and waits

Jyoti Malhotra -
President Sirisena does his old political enemy Rajapaksa a favour by not letting the ousted PM prove his majority in Parliament.

In warm meetings with Prachanda & Rajapaksa, Modi’s veiled message to Kathmandu, Colombo

Ruhi Tewari -
Protocol did not demand Modi meet either leader. Yet, he met both, spent an hour with each, and almost treated them like serving heads of govt or state.

Sri Lanka’s widely acclaimed ‘democratic transition’ has fallen far short of expectations

Taylor Dibbert -
Reduced authoritarianism and a significant widening of the space for dissent constitute the Sri Lankan government’s greatest accomplishments.

To view developments in the neighbourhood simply as ‘pro-China’ or ‘pro-India’ is myopic

Akhil Deo -
Beijing is single-handedly blurring the age-old separation between South and East Asia, and New Delhi must prepare for this reality.
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How Nitish Kumar turned all rules of voter behaviour on their head

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The conventional wisdom is that if a govt fails to improve the lot of the voters, it is punished. Kumar presided over an economic disaster for 20 years and was re-elected by a landslide.

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Economy

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

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Defence

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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