Power struggle over messy CEB reforms Words by The Examiner Following further amendments to the law, long-awaited CEB reforms are underway. Implementation hiccups resulted in threats of a strike - unions are currently on a go-slow. What went wrong and what does it mean for power prices? Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," Bilbo warned. This weekend, it's worth the peril - if only for tonight’s LOTR quiz. Saturday is packed. Read more →
Spotlight Number two priority: How Colombo’s urban planners forgot toilets Words by The Examiner For Chamari, a lottery booth doubles as a changing room. Like her, thousands of women powering Colombo’s economy struggle for dignity in a city that forgets a basic need: toilets. Read more →
Congestion forces shipping lines to jump ship from Colombo Words by The Examiner Shipping lines are moving their cargo elsewhere. Earlier this year, Colombo lost the Himalaya service. That loop accounted for about six percent of its volume, and is operated by the world’s number one line, MSC. Colombo’s loss was India’s gain. Himalaya now docks at Kerala’s new deep-water port. Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Chitrasena dance troupe performs a tribute to Vajira Chitrasena, on her first death anniversary. It’s next weekend, but tickets are almost sold out. This week’s Chart reminds us that women’s work is Read more →
Spotlight The Malabar model: mapping economies across the Gulf of Mannar Words by The Examiner Marxists commanding a capitalist economy, sluggish growth supporting precocious human development, and rentiers relying on Gulf remittances. No, this isn’t Lanka. It’s Kerala, as sketched-out by Tirthankar Roy and K. Ravi Raman in their new economic history of Kerala. Read more →
On Sri Lanka’s road to justice, does Geneva still matter? Words by The Examiner It’s that time of year again. As they have for over a decade, ministers, diplomats, and activists from Colombo make their annual pilgrimage to the UN in Geneva. Sri Lanka has been on the HRC’s agenda since 2012. But, sixteen years after the end of the war, has the pilgrimage become a farce? Read more →