What's changed and what hasn't: Sri Lanka PM's India trip provides insights

In other words, Sri Lanka continues to deny it has a problem with its minority Tamils. India continues to insist it does and advises Colombo to do something about it

Some things don’t change. Maybe they can’t. During the current ongoing India visit of Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Lankan, especially the Tamil language, media noted that in his media statement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was “confident that the Sri Lankan government will realise the expectations of equality, justice, peace and respect of the Tamil people within a united Sri Lanka”. But the Sri Lankan prime minister did not mention the Tamil question in his media statement at all. Instead, he spoke of bilateral cooperation in economic, educational and skills developme­nt, and defence and intelligence gathering.