Amit Baruah

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.

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.

Nov 14, 2024 | thewire.in | Amit Baruah

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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.

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.