2025: The good, the bad and the farcical View(s):The year 2025 of the Gregorian calendar ends next week—a year of mixed happenings and emotions for the people swept asunder by a devastating natural disaster, over and above a delicate economy. Last year, we separated the mixed bag of events of that year, and so we will summarise it for 2025. The Bad: Seven major MoUs were signed with India and were asked to be kept secret from Sri Lankans. Despite ‘Clean Sri Lanka’ and ‘system change’, the Government has also shown signs of increasing intolerance, confronting even the Constitutional Council intended to act as a check on executive power. Such are the complexities Lanka’s foreign policy will have to grapple with as major powers prioritise the Indo-Pacific region for their own global objectives and the inevitable geopolitics of humanitarianism behind the altruistic post-Ditwah solidarity.

Source: Sunday Times December 27, 2025 20:04 UTC