Chandrika Kumaratunga - Himal Southasian (Page 2)

Wishing for a Hung Parliament

Can a hung Parliament that is widely predicted in the run-up to Sri Lanka's 10 October general elections, be the troubled country's great opportunity to abandon

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Oct 2000

Bye Bye Mrs. B

Like the Nehrus in India, ruling Sri Lanka has been the family business of the Bandaranaikes. It was curtains for Sri Lanka´s mother-daughter political act when Sirima Bandaranaike who

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Sep 2000

War and pain

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga´s "war for peace" has gone awry in recent weeks. Stark reality dawned on Colombo only after the 23 April fall of the Elephant

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Long view from new Delhi

However earnest her intention to end the 17-year-old ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga´s strategy of "war for peace" has backfired. Armed with a huge

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Jun 2000

NO STOPPING THE TIGERS

The peace initiative in Sri Lanka was dealt a deathly blow on 10 March, when the Tamil Tigers launched an explosive attack on the ceremonial state drive leading to Parliament

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 2000

ANYTHING FOR PEACE

A glimmer of hope has broken through the gloom that clouded hope for a political resolution of Sri Lanka´s bloody ethnic crisis, which has cost an estimated 50,000

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 2000

SHE’S EARLY

Political circles in Colombo couldn't resist the joke. "This time she's early," they chuckled when Sri Lanka's notoriously unpunctual president, Chandrika Bandaranaike

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1999

The ‘late’ president

Chatting to a journalist at a recent National Day party in Colombo, a newly arrived high commissioner mentioned that she had not yet presented her credentials. "You'd

By Manik de Silva

/ 1 Mar 1999