Sri Lanka, March 12 -- Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's opus, 'The Conspiracy to Oust Me from the Presidency', published in English and Sinhala, was launched without much fanfare last week. Intimation of the launch was a media release issued ahead of copies of the 179-page tome being sent directly to several big-name booksellers across the country.

Close on the heels of the release of 'The Conspiracy.' came an announcement from the chairman of the United National Party (UNP), Vajira Abeywardena MP, that he would shortly be launching his book, the inside story of how incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghebecame the Head of the State with a solitary seat in Parliament after the 2022 'aragalaya' uprising. He released a compilation of...