Amit Baruah

New Delhi

Independent journalist. Author of Dateline Islamabad. Reported from Delhi, Srinagar, Colombo, Islamabad & Southeast Asia. Free bird.

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Articles

Insight South Asia | 'Trump Sending People Back in Shackles is a Political Message'

Feb 21, 2025 | thewire.in | Amit Baruah

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Insight South Asia | 'Indians Don't Get That Sri Lanka is a Sovereign Country'

Jan 28, 2025 | thewire.in | Amit Baruah

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Insight South Asia | National Security Driving Indian Contact With Taliban

Jan 14, 2025 | thewire.in | Amit Baruah

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Sri Lanka Is the Only Country in South Asia That Has Some Political Hope

Nov 26, 2024 | znetwork.org | Jayadeva Uyangoda |Amit Baruah

Jayadeva Uyangoda, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Colombo, spoke to Amit Baruah about the groundbreaking November 14 election results and their implications for Sri Lanka’s future. He discusses South Asian politics, democratic movements, and social transformation. What do the results of November 14 mean for Sri Lanka? The November 14 results essentially reconfirm the outcome of the presidential election held on September 21.
In Sri Lanka, mandate for continuing change

Nov 17, 2024 | htsyndication.com | Amit Baruah

India, Nov. 18 -- If more emphasis was needed from the Sri Lankans to underline that they wanted change in the country, the results of the November 14 parliamentary elections provided it in ample measure. After electing the candidate of the National People's Power (NPP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake as President on September 23, the people spoke again on November 14 by presenting a two-thirds majority and 159 seats to the NPP....
In Sri Lanka, mandate for continuing change

Nov 17, 2024 | hindustantimes.com | Amit Baruah

For the first time in living memory, many Tamils and Muslims trusted their future to a majority Sinhala party – the NPP -- to represent their interests in both parliament and government. Such a prospect was not considered to be in the realm of the possible even when Dissanayake was elected President less than two months earlier.
In Sri Lanka, mandate for continuing change

Nov 16, 2024 | htsyndication.com | Amit Baruah

Posted On: 2024-11-17 Posted By: Amit Baruah Health & Lifestyle National Education Politics Hindustan Times India, Nov. 17 -- If more emphasis was needed from the Sri Lankans to underline that they wanted change in the country, the results of the November 14 parliamentary elections provided it in ample measure.
Economic Struggles Push Anura Dissanayake’s NPP Alliance to Victory in Sri Lanka Parliamentary Polls

Nov 14, 2024 | thewire.in | Amit Baruah

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Sri Lanka Parliamentary Elections 2024: Dissanayake Brings Hope for Tamil Community

Nov 12, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Amit Baruah |Talmiz Ahmad |Vaishna Roy

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is selling hope ahead of the November 14 Parliamentary elections. Not just for the Sinhalese in the south, but for the Tamils in the north. The election of Dissanayake in late September this year as President was a breath of fresh air for a country long dominated by a set of influential political families. Many voters this reporter spoke to—both in Colombo and Jaffna—said they would vote for “AKD” as the President is popularly known.
Donald Trump Defeats Kamala Harris in 2024 Presidential Election, Wins Popular Vote

Nov 7, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Amit Baruah |Talmiz Ahmad |Vaishna Roy

Spectacular, stunning, momentous. Any of these adjectives would describe the staggering comeback pulled off by Donald Trump, a convicted felon, who never stopped believing in himself as he trounced his Democratic Party rival, Kamala Harris, in the race to become the 47th President of the United States.