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A collection of 3 posts

Sri Lanka Parliament building at dusk reflected in the waters of Diyawanna Oya under a dramatic evening sky.

institutional memory

The Memory of a State: What Sri Lanka Keeps Forgetting

Sri Lanka’s deepest crisis is not economic, political, or even security-driven — it is structural forgetting. From insurrections and war to tsunami, terror, and collapse, this essay examines why institutions fail to retain memory, protect competence, and reform by design.

Sri Lankan security forces clearing a landslide and debris from a transport route after Cyclone Ditwa.

After Ditwa: What a Cyclone Quietly Revealed About Governance, Trust, and Sri Lanka’s Changing State

Cyclone Ditwa tested more than Sri Lanka’s infrastructure. It tested the State itself. From international confidence to calm military deployment and rapid institutional correction, the response revealed early, tangible signs of functional good governance under real pressure.

Independence Memorial Hall at dusk in Colombo with the Lotus Tower and modern high-rise buildings in the background.

The Silence Between Signals: A Counterintelligence Reading of Sri Lanka’s Easter Attacks

A counterintelligence reading of Sri Lanka’s Easter attacks that moves beyond failure and conspiracy to examine how signals moved, where authority collapsed, and how state architecture itself became the silent vulnerability.