Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge Gajaman Nona was a famous Sinhala poetess who lived during the Dutch and the British Colonial periods. She was born in 1746 in Kollupitiya. Her real name was Dona Isabella Cornelia. Her father Don Francisco Senaratna Kumara Perumal was a government servant and he predominantly worked in Matara District.  Therefore she […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග​ මාටින් වික්‍රමසිංහයන්  ගම්පෙරළිය ලියන්නේ 1944 වසරේදීය.  එම  කෘතියේ පවුල් දෙකක විස්තර සඳහන් වේ. නන්දා කොග්ගල ගමෙහි ඉතා පැරැණි පරපුරක් ඇති පවුලක තරුණියකි. පියල් පසුව තරමක් වත්පොහොසත් කමක් ඇතිකොට ගත් ධනපතියකුගේ පුතෙකි. ඉංග්‍රීසි උගතකු වූ පියල් නන්දාට ද ඇගේ සොහොයුරියට ද ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගැන්වීමට ඔවුන්ගේ ගෙදරට ආවේය. නන්දා කෙරෙහි ආලය කරන්නා වූ පියල් නන්දාට විවාහ යෝජනාව කළේය. […]

Prof. Rajiva Wijesingha I have refrained thus far from getting involved in the debate over the Geneva Resolution for a number of reasons. One is a commitment to finalize a few books, and in particular an account of what Sri Lanka did right, in winning the war, and then did wrong in losing the peace. […]

By Prof. G. L. Peiris Surveying the events of the last ten days, it seems to me that the need of the hour is to penetrate the fog of misinformation and fantasy with regard to the consequences of the Geneva Resolution on Sri Lanka, and to make a realistic appraisal of the situation. The point […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The report on the Second Mandate of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry Into Complaints of Abductions and Disappearances, aka the Paranagama Commission, highlighted the relevance of Wikileaks cables in assessing the accountability issues in Sri Lanka. The Norwegian government underlined the relevance of Wikileaks revelations, pertaining to Sri Lanka, […]

By Dr. Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island Examining the true intentions behind the US- UN imposition of the hybrid court mechanism to investigate the alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan armed forces is an onerous task indeed. But, the task becomes a fair deal easier when viewed against the context that gave rise to […]

Courtesy The Island Last week’s all-party conference on the Geneva resolution has been hailed as a success in some quarters. True, the best way to settle a vexed national issue is to adopt a collective approach and reach a consensus among all stakeholders. But, the question is why the government did not care to hold […]

October 27, 2015 at 12:01 am | lanka C news හිරු රූපවාහිනියේ අවසන් වරට පැවති ‘බලය’ දේශපාලන වැඩසටහනෙන් සාකච්චා වූයේ ජිනීවා යෝජනාවේ ගුණ දොස්ය. පේ‍්‍රක්‍ෂකයින්ට සාකච්චා මණ්ඩපයෙන් පැන විමසන්නට ඉඩ දුන් එක් අවස්ථාවන එක් මැදහත් පේ‍්‍රක්‍ෂකයෙකු විසින් අසන ලද ඉතා සාධාරණ පැනයකට විද්වත් මඩුල්ලේ සහ නිවේදකයාගේ පවා ප‍්‍රසාදය පල විය. හිරු රූපවාහිනියේ අවසන් වරට පැවති […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror Claiming that there are many dangerous operative paragraphs in theGeneva resolution on Sri Lanka, Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that all Sri Lankans should be vigilant about what some powerful forces are trying to achieve by jailing thewar heroes, sacking through an administrative process those who cannot be jailed, and breaking […]

EDITORIAL  The Daily Mirror t is taken as a fact that Lakshman Kadirgamar — Foreign Minister from 1994 to 2005 with a three-year break in-between — was Sri Lanka’s best diplomat who played a major role in getting the LTTE banned as a terrorist group in the United States and the European Union. His outstanding […]

by Chandre Dharmawardana (posted: October 2015)  The fear that what you eat is poisoned” and it is not good for you have produced a two-tier market with the top tier, made up of  organic foods”  catering to the rich, while the poor have to eat the food from the large warehouse sales centers, US examples […]

October 26, 2015 at 12:01 am | lanka C news ජිනීවා යෝජනාව නිසා රට ඉදිරියේ ඇති අනතුර (හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා 2015 ඔක්තෝබර් 25 ඉරිදා දින, කොළඹ අභයාරාම විහාරස්ථානයේ පවත්වන ලද දේශනයේ පිටපත.) ආයුබෝවන්, අති පූජනීය සංඝයාවහන්ස, සියලු ආගම්වල පූජකතුමනි,මිත්‍රවරුනි, මට මෙලෙස ඔබ ඇමතීමට ලැබීම ගැන සතුටට පත්වෙනවා. මම ඔබ සැම මෙලෙස අමතන්නේ මේ […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Meanwhile, ‘divided but in togetherness’, local leaders continue to play poker in the House and ordinary folk  keep seeing Yahapalanaya as a mirage he war against the LTTE ended several years ago when the armed forces of Sri Lanka crushed the Tigers that ran wild and free for almost thirty years. […]

Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror Last week saw a curious event of pomp and funfair-and political realism-that highlighted how far the States would go to maximize their benefits, even at the expense of their allies. Britain rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping, the Chinese President who rode in a gilded royal carriage […]

හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා විසින් ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයේ ඉදිකර තිබූ බව කියන භූගත මාලිගාව ගැන හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කථිකාචාර්ය මහින්ද පතිරණ මහතා සිය ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුමේ මෙසේ සටහනක් තබා ඇත. ජාතික ආරක්‍ෂාව සම්බන්ධ අතිශය සංවේදී තොරතුරු මහජන අවකාශයන් වෙත මුදා හැරීම මගින් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව අපේක්‍ෂා කරන්නේ ප්‍රචාරය නම් අප ඔවුන්ගේ තකතීරුකම් […]

Courtesy Adaderana The US-sponsored resolution that was adopted at the recently concluded UN Human Rights Council Sessions in Geneva includes several terms that could be a threat to the island nation, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (25). Rajapaksa pointed out that the […]

Shenali D. Waduge Bob Isaacson is an American human rights lawyer. He spent much of his professional life in defending and saving two legged people from the death penalty. For over 25 years he had been a vegetarian and vegan for more than eleven (11) years and then he came across the teachings of the […]

by Kumar David  Courtesy The Island The government has tabled estimates of expenditure for 2016, the first reading of the Budget, and a short summary dated 9 October is available on the Finance Ministry website (Appropriation Bill for year 2016 approved by the Cabinet of Ministers). A deficit of Rs 1.35 trillion (million-million) is expected; […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මහා මණ්ඩලය පිහිටවන ලද්දේ ලෝක සාමය ස්ථාපිත කිරීම උදෙසාය. එ් වර්ෂ 1945දීය. මේ වනවිට ඇයගේ වයස අවුරුදු 70 කි. ඇය විසින් ස්ථාපිත නොකල වැදගත්ම දේ වන්නේද සාමයයි. මේ අපි දකිණ, අපිට පෙනෙන තත්වයයි. අැයට අපේක්ෂිත සාමය ලබා දීමට නොහැකි වූයේ අැයි‍? මිනිස් සමාජය තුල යුද්ධය යනු ගංඟාවක් සේ ගලා යන […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Another middle-aged journalist, this time it is in poll-bound Bihar, has lost his life to the perpetuators. Mithilesh Pandey, 40, was shot dead on 25 October 2015 in his hometown under Gaya district. According to the family source, the miscreants (two masked persons) entered the victim’s house on Saturday evening and […]

Another certified moron bites the dust JOHN SIMPSON, BBC: Western countries almost universally now believe that there’s a new Cold War and that you, frankly, have decided to create that. We see, almost daily, Russian aircraft taking sometimes quite dangerous manoeuvres towards western airspace. That must be done on your orders; you’re the Commander-in-Chief. It […]

by Selvam Canagaratna Courtesy The Island “W[ith] extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.” – Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps, 1942. Thomas S. Harrington, a Professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a regular contributor to CounterPunch […]

Shenali D Waduge  One of the biggest fallacies in Sri Lanka is to get excited by false propaganda manipulated through print/electronic media that has misled public officials, government & opposition ministers including the general public. Let’s not get caught again to any further traps. Another mistake has been the lack of preparation by those representing […]

Courtesy The Island Former External Affairs Minister, Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday alleged that an attempt was being made to confuse the public regarding an opinion expressed by Sir Desmond de Silva on the issue of wartime accountability. Prof. Peiris said: “There is an opinion by Sir Desmond de Silva, QC which was submitted to […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Geneva Initiatives for migrants from the Asian region taken under Sri Lanka’s Chairmanship of the Colombo Process (CP) was commended at the Fifth Global Meeting of Chairs and Secretaries of Regional Consultative Processes on Migration (RCPs). The global meeting organized by the International Organization on Migration (IOM) in collaboration […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of Sri Lanka’s three-member probe commission says that certain isolated incidents that may have occurred outside the activities of the war should be investigated in depth to come to conclusion. He said that whether to permit foreign involvement in the mechanism, more than observing, is a political decision. Those are political […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a clinical syndrome that may develop following extreme traumatic stress (APA). It is an important, albeit relatively uncommon, consequence of exposure to traumatic events (Greenberg, Brooks & Dunn, 2015) presumably the result of life threats and conditioned fear (Ramage et al., 2015). According to the […]

ALI SUKHANVER The Article 370 of the Indian constitution gives a special status to Jammu and Kashmir and this privileged status is not acceptable to the Hindu extremists in any case. According to the India Today RSS had set four Hindutva conditions for supporting Modi before his selection as the Prime Minister of India. ‘Modi […]

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia Barack Obama has taken Australia’s most important ally further along the despised Bush-Cheney regime’s morally-bankrupt path of trashing international law, regime change, extra-judicial murder and war crimes. The most egregious and disturbing of Obama’s crimes has been exposed by investigative-reporting website The Intercept, founded by Glenn Greenwald and others, which […]