Dilrook Kannangara Tamil Diaspora put up another rowdy and third class show of Tamil culture in London. Inability of sane sections of the Tamil community to counter these moves inevitably lands them into the same lot. It is this silence of good people that encourage the bad lot to carry on. Unfortunately for them, they […]

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Asada M Erpini It is only in Sri Lanka that a Member of Parliament, who receives a salary and all types of allowances and perks and is given security at tax payers’ expense, can refuse to hoist the National Flag of the country and still come out with lame excuses to justify the treasonous act. […]

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Courtesy Theƒ”š‚  Nation LTTE’s former arms procurer and international Financial Controller Kumaran Pathmanathan charged the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) of misleading the Tamil youth in the country, including former combatants. Speaking exclusively to The Nation Pathmanathan alias KP, who once supported the LTTE’s cause for a separate state, said the TNA and a section of […]

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Underpala -Courtesy Theƒ”š‚  Lakbima This surely is the absolute farce. Washington’s ambassador-designate to Colombo Michele Sison has said at her congressional hearing that her priority in Sri Lanka will be human rights. Perhaps the congressional gathering was hard of hearing, if you will pardon the pun, but I would have thought one of those elected […]

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Gamini Gunawardane Courtesy The Island Reading through the long speech made by Mr. R. Sampanthan, leader of the TNA at the recent party convention held in Batticaloa, which is really a policy statement, one gets the impression that there is hardly anything “ƒ”¹…”new’ in it in essence. It is only a veiled re-statement of the […]

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Part one of Vandana Shiva’s talk for Moravian College as their fifth Peace and Justice Scholar. Dr. Shiva, an internationally known scientist, environmental activist, ecofeminist philosopher, author, and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize), is speaking on the topic of “Human Freedom and a Fragile Planet.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJYZKd5iGg&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL802AE2161D17726F <iframe […]

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PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER ƒ”š‚ My younger son was depressingly disappointed when one day he was reading a headline in a western newspaper, “ƒ”¹…”Afridi Behind the Bars’. In a very dismal tone he said to me, “Baba! These western newspapers are simply damaging the repute of our national hero Shahid Afridi by such misguiding headlines.”ƒ”š‚ I said, […]

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Dr Hector Pereraƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  London I remember that some people took hours to cook then I thought that cooking is a real time consuming and a tedious job. Many years ago we had servants to cook at our home; they did everything to prepare our meals such as string hoppers for breakfast, rice and curry for […]

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by Walter Jayawardhana The rugby legend Jonny Wilkinson hit world headlines ƒ”š‚ due to his 2003 World Cup final heroics, when his drop goal in the last minute of extra-time delivered the trophy to England. He made another sensation when he told the London Times that he became a Buddhist by reading Quantum Physics. Wilkinson, a […]

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