More about the solution for Sri Lanka’s current crisis
Radio frequencies are public property given away for nothing, and MPs are traders in the state they govern. Victor Ivan uses both to argue that a balance-of-payments fix alone will change nothing.
Sri Lanka on the brink of anarchy
Written weeks before the fuel queues turned into protests. Victor Ivan traces the fertiliser theory back to the two men who sold it, and says the country will soon be declared bankrupt.
The rough sea, sinking ship and the captain
A novice captain took the helm in the worst weather at sea. Victor Ivan reads Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidency that way, then turns to Geiger and the curse laid on kings in the chronicles.
Seeking a path to get out of the morass
A proposed way out of the trap: an interim constitution, a constituent assembly, and the observation — from Colvin R. de Silva — that removing even an insane president would take more than two years.
Some insights into the NMSJ’s proposed constitutional reforms
The National Movement for Social Justice publishes its reform proposals, and Victor Ivan finds the shadow of the 19th Amendment over them — another attempt, he argues, to tie down a president who remains above the law.
Transforming Gota to a Botha
Answering a critic in Anidda who called the People’s Constitution a myth, Victor Ivan turns to South Africa: P.W. Botha’s successor negotiated a transition from a position of strength, and Sri Lanka’s president could do the same.
Defeating the spurious constitution
Against the constitution being written by a committee the President appointed. Victor Ivan sets out what a participatory constitution would require and how a mass agitation could win one.
Presidential Polls and Constitution
Twenty-three numbered points on the 2025 election and the constitution being drafted for it — including Basil Fernando’s verdict that the document is spurious, and Victor Ivan’s proposal for a public-interest case against it.
Grand offer of Lanka to Kali Amma
First the fertiliser ban, then the ban on cattle slaughter. Victor Ivan argues the dairy herd is being destroyed to keep a vow, and that a president is a custodian of the country, not its owner.
Lawful public uprising: Theory and practice
Part three. Victor Ivan explains why leaders who call the presidency corrupt keep it anyway, revisits the common-candidate strategy of 2015, and argues reforms must be won before power is handed over, not after.