While the world is riveted by the victory of a Sinhala supremacist with working-class Marxist leanings in Sri Lanka’s presidential elections, displacing the 70-year-old hold of the political elite, Anura Kumara Dissanayake may have created history. Sri Lanka electing a novice like AKD to such a powerful post, can he hold the Sri Lankan ship steady? As India and China put their powerful pawns in play.