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Arthashasthra

Sri Lanka state fails in the core business: administration of justice

Sri Lanka presents a façade of a functioning legal system

May 14, 2021 12 min read

Sri Lanka's misguided state priorities and how to reset them

In the previous Arthashasthra columns, I showed that the Sri Lankan state’s priorities were all wrong; it was not doin...

April 6, 2021 1 min read

What the Sri Lanka state should prioritize

Currently, the Sri Lankan state does many things, badly. Despite having a strong public health system and months to get...

March 22, 2021 2 min read

Core elements of a Sri Lanka state; public goods, national defence, justice: Arthashastra

Sri Lanka needs the state to provide public goods, including national defence, law and order and justice; to control mar...

February 8, 2021 9 min read
Arthashasthra, for new thinking on Sri Lanka statecraft

Arthashasthra is a treatise on statecraft, supposedly written by Kautilya, also known as Chanakya, in the time of Chandr...

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