What is Mahinda Rajapaksa Doing in Tirupati?

The last time Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple was in February 2020, weeks -- nay days -- before the pandemic ravaged India and parts of South......

When Namal Met NaMo...

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was supposed to be on the first flight to land at Kushinagar airport on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 -- at least so the buzz went -- for an India-Sri Lanka......

Can India trust Gota and the Rajapaksas?

New Delhi is approaching Gota with an open mind, observes N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi greets Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at Hyderabad House in New......

Rajapaksa concedes battle again, but the war may still remain

Unlike in the presidential polls, victory might not have been complete, at least as yet, for Mahinda Rajapaksa’s electoral rivals. While his one-time aide and confidant, Maithripala Sirisena,......