The main reason for worrying about Mr Dissanayake is not that he is a zealot. It is that he has little experience in ...
The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most ...
Yet many Sri Lankans continue to demand fundamental change. It is not only swingeing austerity that angers them: they are ...
Marxist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters ...
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), now in power as the National People’s Power (NPP), has evolved, and the distinction ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory in the presidential election signals the people’s desire for systemic change. While his ...
New Delhi will be watching how Dissanayake and his party’s close ties with China impact the regional power balance ...
On September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi ...
The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s executive president is a major ...
Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s presidential election would have been ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake rode a wave of anger to power. But any Sri Lankan leader’s position is precarious today.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake has worried New Delhi because his party, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, made a name for itself in the 1980s with an anti-India terror ...