Voter disillusionment with the traditional political elite is behind the rise of the NPP. But to build an inclusive Sri Lanka ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake offered his broad leftist coalition as the best hope for a different political culture, one not ...

Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin has written to India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar to speak to the Lankan ...

Yet many Sri Lankans continue to demand fundamental change. It is not only swingeing austerity that angers them: they are ...

Dissanayake’s win dealt a blow to a political old guard that has been widely blamed for the unprecedented economic crisis ...

The growing support for Dissanayake, a center-left politician who ran on transparency and the working class, is a reflection ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake rose from a humble background to the pinnacle of leadership in Sri Lanka, presenting ...

Left-wing politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's 10th president on Sept. 22, marking the end of the ...

You voted for Maithripala Sirisena in 2015 while the Sourthen people voted for Mahinda Rajapaksa ... he told a public rally in Jaffna. "Anura Kumara Dissanayake should tender an apology to ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... demanding the resignation of the then-President Rajapaksa. Although he has been a leftist in the past, Dissanayake now professes economic freedom and promises welfare ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Anura Kumara Dissanayake ... of the then-President Rajapaksa. Although he has been a leftist in the past, Dissanayake now professes economic freedom ...