THE EMERALD ISLAND IN RED: A SECURITY CHALLENGE FOR INDIA (First published in Financial Express) https://www.financialexpress.com/defence/the-emerald-island-in-red-security-challenge-for-india/2591323/ “ Sri Lanka, the Emerald Isle, is excruciatingly balanced on a razor’s edge of democracy and mobocracy, with seemingly only its security infrastructure preventing its plunge from fiscal red to blood soaked red of civil strife .” – Veteran Col RS Sidhu Relevant Demographic Profile of Sri Lanka The first interesting facet of Sri Lanka demography is that the dominant Sinhala ethnic group comprising just fewer than 75% of the population, and the larges...
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