Opinion

Parliamentary support required for recovery

Jehan Perera: WITH less than a year and half to the presidential elections, president Ranil Wickremesinghe has a tight deadline to meet if he is to attain his aspirations for

Boom and bust, and hybrid regime

Imtiaz Alam: THE sporadic violent attacks against the armed forces installations in Pakistan on May 9, mainly in the dominant province of Punjab, which is the backbone of the Army,

Visits of justice: Stella Assange’s plea to Australia

Binoy Kampmark IT CERTAINLY got the tongues wagging, the keyboards pressed, and the intellectually dead aroused — at least for a time. Given how many of those in the Australian

Dream team for Lanka reconciliation

by Jehan Perera: Sri Lanka’s president has recently been involved in a process of dialogue with the Tamil political parties to find a solution to the problem as has taken

Politics of reimagination: Shakespeare now

by Michael Dobson: Michael Dobson, a professor of Shakespeare studies, speaks with Shahman Moishan about the meaning of global Shakespearean appropriation through the performance, literature and other cultural productions Shahman

Forecast of ‘One-Eleven’ storm in politics

Syed Borhan Kabir Sometimes I really like BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s comments. He often reveals the truth unintentionally or his face says it all. For example, last

Assessing the Turkish elections

BY THE narrowest of margins, the Turkish elections remain formally inconclusive after the votes were counted on the early morning of May 15, with the prospect of a runoff election

What Congress win in Karnataka means

Afsan Chowdhury: JUST as the Congress was being written off as a party that was slowly fading away from the political space, it won in Karnataka. This is a big