Sri Lanka, Sept. 28 -- It's been a year since Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President of Sri Lanka. His electoral victory broke the seven-decade duopoly of Sri Lanka's two main parties, the United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) (the Rajapaksas' Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [SLPP] was but a splinter group of the SLFP).

Soon after Dissanayake's Presidential election victory, his National People's Power (NPP) swept to a two-thirds majority in Parliament-the first time that a political party secured a two-thirds majority in Parliament since Sri Lanka shifted to a Proportional Representation electoral system in the 1980s. President Dissanayake's and NPP's victories signalled not just a change of Government b...