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Coal, Cash and Ash: What is really Powering Sri Lanka?
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Coal, Cash and Ash: What is really Powering Sri Lanka?

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 24, 2026
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Sri Lanka’s coal story never travels alone. It travels with allegations. It travels with procurement questions. And now, it travels with ash. In recent weeks, […]

Cancelled at Oxford? or Afraid of the Questions?
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Cancelled at Oxford? or Afraid of the Questions?

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 24, 2026
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It appears that invitations extended to Namal Rajapaksa to speak at the Oxford Union and at Cambridge have been withdrawn following objections from sections of […]

SLAF Fleet Modernisation – Security need or Strategic signal?
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SLAF Fleet Modernisation – Security need or Strategic signal?

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 24, 2026
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The Sri Lanka Air Force has moved ahead with multi- billion-rupee fleet modernisation plans. On paper, this is routine: ageing aircraft require replacement; defence readiness […]

Sri Lankan Lawmakers Scrap Pensions – Reform or Populism?
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Sri Lankan Lawmakers Scrap Pensions – Reform or Populism?

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 24, 2026
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In a sweeping and unexpected parliamentary move, Sri Lankan legislators voted overwhelmingly to abolish their own pensions — a reform that seemed almost theatrical in […]

Buddhist Monks Rally in Colombo – A Quiet Movement with Loud Message
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Buddhist Monks Rally in Colombo – A Quiet Movement with Loud Message

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 24, 2026
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In Colombo last Friday, hundreds of Buddhist monks took to the streets — not with violence, not with slogans of upheaval, but with a calm, […]

SriLankan Airline – Real Reason Australia Route wasn’t Expanded
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SriLankan Airline – Real Reason Australia Route wasn’t Expanded

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 23, 2026
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Airline Profit was There, Capacity Wasn’t. Was this Mechanical Reality? For weeks, the public narrative has been simple and explosive: SriLankan Airlines was operating a […]

Why Aircraft Utilisation Can Make or Break a Long-Haul Airline
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Why Aircraft Utilisation Can Make or Break a Long-Haul Airline

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 23, 2026
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In commercial aviation, aircraft utilisation is one of the most critical performance indicators. It refers to the number of hours per day an aircraft is […]

Coal Fails. Lights at Risk
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Coal Fails. Lights at Risk

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 23, 2026
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Government Rushes to AG as Tender Scandal Deepens Sri Lanka may be staring at the possibility of another power crisis – not because of drought, […]

Ravi K demands ‘Reserve’ Truth
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Ravi K demands ‘Reserve’ Truth

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 23, 2026
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Government Asks for Two Weeks Sri Lanka’s Gross Official Reserves are back in the headlines — and this time the questions are technical, direct, and […]

SUPER 8 Reality Check: Talent is not Strategy
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SUPER 8 Reality Check: Talent is not Strategy

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 23, 2026
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Sri Lanka’s defeat to England at Pallekele was not dramatic. It was diagnostic. This was not a bad day. It was a revealing one. At […]

Singer, Starlink — and a Chairman Who Thinks in Decades
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Singer, Starlink — and a Chairman Who Thinks in Decades

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 21, 2026
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FROM DIGITAL DIVIDE TO DIGITAL SKY How a Vision for Equal Education Led Singer to Starlink. Big moves rarely begin with hardware.They begin with a […]

SriLankan Airlines – Profitable in the Air. Burdened on the Ground
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SriLankan Airlines – Profitable in the Air. Burdened on the Ground

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 21, 2026
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SriLankan Airlines is flying fuller aircraft. Load factors are up. Passenger numbers have recovered with tourism. Routes are stabilising. Operational discipline has improved compared to […]

Lead, Follow, – or Get out of the Way
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Lead, Follow, – or Get out of the Way

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 21, 2026
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There is a pattern forming. And patterns, if ignored, become warnings. Across sectors, we are seeing resignations — not routine retirements, not quiet exits — […]

When Privilege Meets Prosecution
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When Privilege Meets Prosecution

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 21, 2026
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Strip away the titles. Remove the deference. Ignore the choreography of palace language. The real question is brutally simple: Can a man born into monarchy […]

Harsha reminds IMF chief of previous government’s economic gains
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Harsha reminds IMF chief of previous government’s economic gains

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 21, 2026
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Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Harsha de Silva has called for recognition of the previous government’s economic achievements while commenting on Sri Lanka’s IMF programme. […]

Trump’s sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
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Trump’s sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 21, 2026
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The US Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking […]

TRUMP v BBC
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TRUMP v BBC

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 20, 2026
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$5 Billion, Jan 6, and the Battle Over Editing the Truth London. Miami. Washington. The battlefield is no longer the Capitol steps. It is the […]

Sri Lanka’s Affordability Crisis
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Sri Lanka’s Affordability Crisis

  • Faraz Shauketaly
  • February 19, 2026
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Stable, Yes. Affordable, No. Sri Lanka has stabilised. That much is true. The queues are gone. The IMF benchmarks are being ticked. The currency is […]

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