by Wijith DeChickera | Feb 13, 2025 | DailyFT
The GOSL introduced its fertiliser policy of 2021 to stave off severe forex outflows but did not anticipate the issues angry farmers of all types island-wide would face The primary reasons adduced by most expert observers are that the overnight fertiliser policy was...
by Wijith DeChickera | Feb 4, 2025 | DailyFT
Beatrice and Sidney Webb Virginia and Leonard Woolf On the 77th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence from colonial rule following foreign domination of some four and a half centuries, the focus may well be on liberty from oppression or tyranny, and...
by Wijith DeChickera | Feb 3, 2025 | DailyFT
The State Council was to consist of 58 members, of whom 50 would be elected by universal suffrage, and the remaining eight were to be appointed by the then Governor of British Ceylon On the 77th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence from colonial rule,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jan 11, 2025 | DailyFT
Despite having tenuous links with both nations, these Indian-origin Tamils of Ceylon/Sri Lanka found themselves as pawns in a game of chess played by the home country, India, and the country that played host to them under British colonial government, Sri Lanka ...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jan 10, 2025 | DailyFT
That this unfortunate community was criminally exploited for hundreds of years by British and then Ceylonese, as well as Sri Lankan plantation companies later, is a public secret; as is the fact that these Tamils were discriminated against by colonial and native...
