Sri Lanka spotlight: From crisis to 2024 election

Panel discussion called Southasia's youthquakes on Gen Z protests in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Politics
Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka uprisings: Why and what next?
By
The Editors
A discussion on three Southasian youth-led uprisings in three years
Protest movements in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, largely led by youth, have toppled three governments in three years. All three movements were similar in their negation of the status quo but also in their lack of a blueprint for the future.
Politics
The overlapping factors behind Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’s uprisings
By
Anupam Debashis Roy
A youth bulge, economic failures, corruption and the perversion of democratic processes are shared causes behind the protest movements that have toppled governments in Southasia
An art performance of laying down handprints in red paint on a white sheet to remember Black January which remembers journalist killings in Sri Lanka.
Politics
Twenty years later, Tamil broadcaster Relangi Selvarajah’s killers still remain unknown
By
Ramkumar Ravichchandrasarma
Relangi Selvarajah’s killing in 2005 is a reminder of the risks faced by critics of Tamil militancy and the LTTE during Sri Lanka’s civil war – and of the persisting impunity around crimes against jou ...
Supporters of the former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo protest his arrest under corruption charges.
Podcast
Marlon Ariyasinghe on Ranil Wickremesinghe’s arrest and Sri Lanka’s political morass: State of Southasia #31
By
The Editors
The writer and researcher calls the opposition’s show of support for Wickremesinghe “farcical at best and infuriating at worst”
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