So you think politics in India is complicated? Go to Sri Lanka!
Sri Lanka's President Mithripala Sirisena addresses the nation at his party's office in Colombo. Photographs: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
July 20, 2015
The country has a fiendishly complicated electoral system that is a combination of population-based proportional representation and party-based national lists Aditi Phadnis
As Indian Parliament gets ready to convene the monsoon session -- and prepares itself for a washout -- it is worth considering what is happening in the parliament of its tiny neighbour, Sri Lanka.
A quick recap for those who haven't followed politics in Sri Lanka closely: In January this year, Mahinda Rajapaksa of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party was ousted from the post of president.
