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Nirupama Subramanian is the Resident Editor of The Indian Express, Chandigarh, and National Affairs Editor (North). Before this, she worked at The Hindu. She was a foreign correspondent for The Hindu in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. She began working as a journalist in the Times of India over 30 years ago, and has also worked at Sunday Observer and India Today. She won the Prem Bhatia award in 2008 and the Chameli Devi award in 2009.

For 5th time Lanka PM, political, economic challenge like no other

Nirupama Subramanian May 13, 2022

This is Wickremesinghe’s fifth time in the office. Each of his earlier terms was truncated, and on two of those occasions he was dismissed by the President — by Chandrika Kumaratunga in 2004, and by Maithripala Sirisena in 2018.

Sri Lanka’s former PM has a message for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Quit or explain why you won’t

Nirupama Subramanian Apr 12, 2022

Speaking to The Indian Express, Wickremesinghe also said that to tide over the current food shortage, Sri Lanka must tap its friends in South Asia — India, Pakistan and Bangladesh — to “borrow” foodgrains that could be returned after two or…

Anger in Mahinda Rajapaksa stronghold: Voted for them, see what they did

Nirupama Subramanian Apr 12, 2022

In 2015, after Mahinda’s shock defeat in the presidential elections, tearful supporters greeted him in this village and pledged to bring him back to power. But it seems that even here, people have run out of patience.

Express in Sri Lanka | Ethnic fault-lines blur as nation unites in one cry: Go Gota Go

Nirupama Subramanian Apr 12, 2022

In Colombo, Saturday saw tens of thousands converge at Galle Face, the capital's main ocean front.

To India from angry street: Thank you, help us, not our government

Nirupama Subramanian Apr 12, 2022

Stores empty, despair grows: ‘You messed with wrong generation’

Why did the government really initiate J&K talks?

Nirupama Subramanian Jun 28, 2021

Nirupama Subramanian writes: They could have more to do with BJP’s electoral calculations, than giving signals of assurance.

Counter ‘one-sided’ world media narrative on govt’s pandemic ‘failure’, Jaishankar tells Indian…

Nirupama Subramanian Apr 30, 2021

International TV channels have run visuals of waiting ambulances and patients outside hospitals, and cremations to underline India's lack of preparedness.

Dealing with Covid-19: Lessons from the experience of Sri Lanka

Nirupama Subramanian Jun 30, 2020

India’s small southern neighbour has kept its Covid numbers extremely low, and the number of deaths from the disease to only 11. How did Sri Lanka do it? The country’s Director General of Health Services, Dr Anil Jasinghe, explained the…

Explained: Going back 1300 years, the story of Mahabalipuram’s China connection

Nirupama Subramanian Oct 23, 2019

SAWM India member Nirupama Subramanian wrote about the fascinating history of the place called Mahabalipuram or Mammalapuram and its centuries old connection with Buddhism and China just before the informal summit between India's Prime…

India’s actions over the status of J&K provide an opportunity to revisit four-point plan for…

Nirupama Subramanian Sep 24, 2019 0

Nirupama Subramanian, journalist & SAWM member writes why right now India should roll back all its restrictions on Jammu & Kashmir. She writes why India has now given the four point plan for Kashmir another chance while taking the…

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