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Nilantha Ilangamuwa

(He/Him)
Colombo
As seen in: Flipboard, The Pioneer (India), CounterPunch, The Island (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka Guardian, HT Syndication
Covers:  Foreign Affairs, South Asia, Defence, Politics, History, Human Rights,
Doesn't Cover: Sports
Believe in change or stay complacent. 🌍🔥Byline in CounterPunch, Daily Pioneer, Daily FT, Sunday Island, Daily Star, Beijing Review, News Int, Geopolitics

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Nilantha Ilangamuwa’s Biography

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Nilantha Ilangamuwa is a distinguished Sri Lankan-born author and journalist with over two decades of experience in the field of journalism. Throughout his career, he has made significant contributions to the media landscape by establishing several non-profit media entities, including Sri Lanka Guardian, Lanka Courier, and Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives. A prominent figure in the realms of defence and foreign affairs analysis, Ilangamuwa's insights have been sought after by both local a…

Nilantha Ilangamuwa’s Journalist Portfolio

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Nilantha Ilangamuwa is a Sri Lankan born author. He was the-editor of Sri Lanka Guardian, an online daily new…

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Challenging Times and Intellectual Pleasures: My Talk with Slavoj Žižek

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China’s law of one identity

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By Nilantha Ilangamuwa
| The Pioneer (India) Verified
The new law places strong emphasis on promoting standard Chinese language while stating that minority languages remain protected. The conflict lies in priority Six days before the Dalai Lama celebrated his 91st birthday on July 6, China marked another anniversary that carries enormous symbolic weight for the Communist Party, July 1, the founding anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party and the date Hong Kong was handed back to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
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America celebrates the 250 years of freedom

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By Nilantha Ilangamuwa
| The Pioneer (India) Verified
At 250 years, the United States appears less like a completed political project and more like a continuing argument that has never settled its own meaning, where universal ideals and uneven outcomes persist within the same institutional framework and shape one another over time What has happened to Thomas Paine remains unresolved, and that uncertainty matters when trying to understand the United States at its present stage.
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America at 250

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By Thilina Walpola, Nilantha Ilangamuwa
| The Island (Sri Lanka) Verified
What has happened to Thomas Paine remains unresolved, and that uncertainty matters when trying to understand the United States at its present stage. The United States of America yesterday (July 4) marked its 250th birthday, a moment when one of the world’s leading liberal democracies appeared less as a coherent model and more as a divided system, a family business struggling to awaken from its long slumber.
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