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  • Seminar Report
    Sri Lanka & Maldives: Internal Politics, External Relations & India’s Interests
    Sisir Devkota.    ·   21 Nov, 2013    ·    #4185    ·    Commentary    
    Sri Lanka Brigadier (Retd) K Srinivasan Establishment Director, Centre for Security Analysis, Chennai The Tamils in Sri Lanka expect the Prime Minister of India to make an appearance at CHOGM as it would be in their political and social int ...
  • CHOGM, India and Sri Lanka: New Delhi’s Missed Opportunities
    N Manoharan.    ·   14 Nov, 2013    ·    #4174    ·    Commentary    
    After a long suspense, India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has formally conveyed his decision not to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to the Sri Lankan president. Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid now heads the d ...
  • Sri Lanka: TNA in the Northern Province
    N Manoharan.    ·   17 Oct, 2013    ·    #4145    ·    Commentary    
    In the recently held Provincial Council elections, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) won 30 out of 38 seats (that included two bonus seats) and formed the government in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. As announced during the campaign, its chief ...
  • Sri Lanka: Should India Boycott the Commonwealth Meeting?
    V Suryanarayan.    ·   15 Oct, 2013    ·    #4143    ·    Commentary    
     As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo is fast approaching, questions are being raised in India, especially in Tamil Nadu, about the rationale of Indian participation. Some political groupings argue that Indian par ...
  • Sri Lanka: Canada's Decision to Boycott the Commonwealth
    Charles Aruliah.    ·   11 Oct, 2013    ·    #4138    ·    Commentary    
    After two years of speculation, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has officially announced that he would not be attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting scheduled for November 2013 in Sri Lanka. The government of Sri Lanka has been ...
  • Sri Lankan Claims to Kachchatheevu: A Rejoinder
    V Suryanarayan.    ·   30 Aug, 2013    ·    #4103    ·    Commentary    
    This commentary is in response to an article entitled 'Kachchatheevu: A Matter of Sri Lanka's Sovereignty' (27 August 2013) by C Vivekananthan, published in the Sri Lanka based Daily Mirror. Vivekananthan’s arguments can be summed u ...
  • Indian Ocean Region: Can New Delhi Guarantee Regional Stability?
    Barana Waidyatilake.    ·   23 Aug, 2013    ·    #4099    ·    Commentary    
    With the recent launch of its first indigenously-developed aircraft carrier, India has announced its entry into yet another elite club. Historically, developing naval power projection has been seen as a major indicator of ‘great power’ ...
  • Half Yearly Review
    India and the Peace Process in Sri Lanka: So Close, Yet So Far
    N Manoharan.    ·   11 Aug, 2013    ·    #4083    ·    Commentary    
    During the first half of 2013, there was no forward movement on the peace process front in Sri Lanka. Instead, some of the measures taken by the Sri Lankan government under Mahinda Rajapaksa have put things in the opposite direction. India was conc ...
  • Half Yearly Review
    Sri Lanka: Tough Questions, Slow Answers
    Thiranjala Weerasinghe.    ·   08 Aug, 2013    ·    #4077    ·    Commentary    
    Introduction All throughout the three decades of armed hostilities in Sri Lanka, many believed that the end of war will necessarily bring a lasting solution to the ethnic tension erupted specifically during the post-independence era. Basically it ...
  • IPCS Debate
    India, Sri Lanka & Maldives: Regaining India's Strategic Space
    T.C Karthikeyan.    ·   08 Aug, 2013    ·    #4076    ·    Commentary    
    The second Trilateral Maritime Security Cooperation meeting between India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka was held in Colombo last month. A roadmap for future cooperation was confirmed in the Outcome Document and some important aspects of the agreement ...
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