er National League for Democracy (NLD), a remarkable turnaround in a country that until recently ranked among the world’s most repressive. Voters in Sri Lanka ousted their increasingly author- itarian and divisive president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in favor of Maithripala Sirisena. Upon taking office, Sirisena

declining to reach beyond its own narrowly defined core national interests as we have often seen in the past. China has also developed naval bases in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and now Djibouti (the latter with some 5,000 troops based there), as well as participating in naval exercises with the Russians in the Sea

his footsteps and be an academic. He was a professor, too, of cardiology. So I worked hard. India wasn't encouraging people to leave. I had to go to Sri Lanka to pass my exams, I had to borrow money to get a flight to the United States, I passed all that, I had to spend a year in New Jersey at a very ordina