Nalini Ratnarajah, Author at Inmathi

Nalini Ratnarajah

As Gotabaya Rajapaksa climbs down, will army take power?

By Nalini Ratnarajah | May 12, 2022 | 5 min read

On May 11, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa told his countrymen that he is ready to talk about removing the Presidential form of government. He promised to give more powers to Parliament and facilitate a national government this week. Once the new government is in place, steps will be taken and...

Opinion

Why Sri Lanka crisis is an opportunity for Tamils there

By Nalini Ratnarajah | May 10, 2022 | 7 min read

As the Sri Lanka crisis intensifies, the agitation against the Rajapaksas has started yielding results. The Rajapaksas are unable to digest that the people who backed them have lost faith in them. Dictators and those who don’t go by democratic norms use violence to retain power. But this is not...