Beckoning the devilish anarchy
Victor Ivan sets out his own position plainly: he opposed Gotabaya’s candidacy, took him a reform plan anyway, and asks now whether the country can survive until the next government without one.
Earning a system change
The World Bank, the IMF and the EU all say the political crisis must be solved alongside the economic one. Victor Ivan says the opposition parties are the obstacle, and calls this a golden opportunity being wasted.
Downfall of Sri Lanka: The root cause
Not corruption but ignorance, Victor Ivan argues — a literate society that never learned to think. He traces it through the colonial historians, through Dharmapala, and through a constitution violated since 1948 without protest.
Neglect of essential reforms
The Aragalaya put system change at the centre of the argument and then the moment passed. Victor Ivan asks why the Opposition and the JVP both want no part of a reform programme.
Putting the country on right track
Victor Ivan answers the anger his defence of Ranil Wickremesinghe provoked, describes how the man’s public image was manufactured against him, and states plainly what his own role in all this has been.
Making expectations realistic
The Aragalaya had a sensitive heart and no mature brain. Victor Ivan sets out what it achieved, why it failed, and what compromise the country would now have to reach.
Limitations inherent in July uprising
Victor Ivan measures the July uprising against Magna Carta, the American and French revolutions and the Indian independence movement, and locates the limitation that decided its outcome.
Overcoming ideological anarchy
Mao on falling into pits. Victor Ivan argues that neither the protesters nor the opposition parties who borrowed their slogan have worked out whether it can actually be done.
A way out of the crisis?
An all-party consensus, and quickly. Victor Ivan offers his reform proposals as a specimen of the scale required rather than a text to be adopted, and warns of the stage below the present one.
Opening doors for reforms
With the President and Prime Minister apparently willing, Victor Ivan sets out the reform plan itself — numbered, sequenced, and to be finished with a referendum inside three years.