By Shelton A. Gunaratne ©2009  Professor of mass communications emeritus Minnesota State University Moorhead
The Journey of a Journalist (Part 1) – FROM VILLAGE BOY TO GLOBAL CITIZEN
Monday, September 14th, 2009
By Shelton A. Gunaratne ©2009
My great ambition as a 15-year-old child was to become “one of the outstanding statesmen of the world” and to go overseas [...]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario.Canada
December 5, 2009
The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Sir:
The cruel and insane side of international Human Rights activism was revealed in the very words that you had quoted (Dec.5), ‘Tens of thousands of Tamil detainees freed in Sri Lanka, many have nowhere to turn.’  I am not surprised.
After 27 [...]

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Malin Abeyatunge
Religious statues, images and any other material relating to various religions are sacred to each faith. The Buddha Statues and Images are the most sacred objects to all Buddhists in the world. I, myself a Buddhist and have placed the Buddha’s statue in my home at a very
appropriate place in keeping with the highest [...]

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Piyal Samarakone
The political twist which is being taken place perhaps never contemplated by anyone even in their wildest dreams, yet all set to unfold the biggest political drama of our time and it’s not about color of the factions but mere characters.
Which one? And why? The questions will be answered by the mass-jury in a [...]

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