Archive for November, 2017

This country needs a strong patriotic Sinhala Buddhist visionary Leader to save it from the quagmire in to which it has been put by our post-Independent politicians.

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara   29.10.2017 This conclusion is based on three 4 premises, 1The inalienable and non-negotiable premise that ‘This country is the land of the Sinhala race and the Sinhala Buddhists culture continuously, as it had been for 2560 years from 543 BC and also for 2324 from 307 BC respectively and its unique […]

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50th Anniversary of the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

German Dharmaduta Society and Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya Sanrakshana Mandalaya The 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya (Mitirigala Forest Hermitage) will be commemorated at a public meeting to be held at the Nissarana Vanaya Aranya commencing at 2.00 p.m. on Sunday December 3, 2017 (Unduvap Poya Day). A Postage stamp together with […]

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පිංපොතෙන් පටන්ගනිමු!

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති මේක තමයි මේ ලිපි පෙළේ අවසාන ලිපිය. මේ ලිපියත් පොඩි කතාවක් කියලා ම පටන්ගන්නම්. ආණ්ඩුවේ රස්සා කරන කාලේ නොයෙක් විදිහේ සමීක්‍ෂණ වැඩවලට මේ ලේඛකයා දායකවෙලා තියෙනවා. සමීක්‍ෂණ වැඩවලට යනවා කියන්නේ හරි අපූරු අත්දැකීම් ලැබෙන වැඩක්. ඉතින් 2003 – 2004 අවුරුදු දෙක ම ආවරණය වෙන විදිහට අවුරුද්දක් පුරා කෙරිච්ච එක්තරා සමීක්‍ෂණ කටයුත්තක දී අත්දැකපු […]

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Commemorating LTTE dead is tantamount to celebrating every person killed by the LTTE

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

Mahinda Gunasekera Your Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena, Hon. Prime Minister, Hon. Cabinet Ministers and Hon. Members of Parliament , Please see the annexed article published By Ms. Shenali D. Waduge highlighting the absurd lengths to which the present government has been directly and knowingly acceded to the extremist demands made by the Tamil National Alliance (Proxy […]

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Misguided Tamils:  A Threat to National Unity

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane  History of the Tamil Community of Sri Lanka    The small communities of Tamils and Muslims living in Sri Lanka, amount to about 24% of the island’s total population with Tamils including Estate Tamils accounting for 15% and Muslims 09%. These communities are descendants of groups of individuals, exclusively males, who arrived […]

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Most prominent theft in SL history took place under this government – Rohitha (English)

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

Most prominent theft in SL history took place under this government – Rohitha (English)

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Several MPs trying to defend Bond Scam thieves in parliament – Handunnetti (English)

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

Ada Derana Published on Nov 25

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Did PM’s evidence clear your doubts or trigger more questions? – Face the Nation Part 1 and Part 2 Nov. 17, 2017

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

Did PM’s evidence clear your doubts or trigger more questions? (20.11.17) Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCTUouJabA4 Face the Nation: Can the funds lost in the bond scam be recovered? (20.11.17) Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tOL85wNXxA

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බල්ලාගේ වැඩේ බූරුවාට බාරදීම

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සුද්දන්ගෙන් නිදහස ලැබුණේ 1948දීය. එදා සිට මේ වන විට වසර 69ක් ගතවී ඇත. අපට පසු නිදහස ලැබූ බොහෝ ආසියාතික රටවල් අද ලෝකයේ දියුණුතම රටවල් අතරට එක්වී සිටියදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තවමත් දියුණු වෙමින් පවතින රටකි. මේ යන විදියට නම් තවත් අවුරුදු 50කටවත් මේ රට දියුණු රටක් වේ යැයි සිතිය නොහැක්කේ දියුණුව යනු […]

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Drop resolution on Lanka, Govt told Death toll inaccurate says JO

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

By Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today The Joint Opposition (JO) will press the Government this week to withdraw or annul the Resolution that it jointly signed and co-sponsored with the United States on Sri Lanka. “We will press the Government to withdraw the Resolution as it is based on the war crime charges where the numbers […]

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How Torrington who burdened the people with taxes was sent home

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

By Bandula Gunaratne Courtesy Ceylon Today Even today certain roads in Colombo are known by the names of some Governors who ruled this country during the British colonial era. Maitland Crescent, Maitland Place, Horton Place, Barnes Place, Ward Place, and Rosmead Place are some of these roads. Today, media institutions such as the Sri Lanka Rupavahini […]

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Final phase of SL’s war against LTTE Lord Naseby’s statement handy Will be utilized in appropriate forum

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

By Methmalie Dissanayake Courtesy Ceylon Today Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Assignments Tilak Marapana yesterday (25) said that the Government would use Lord Naseby’s statement, regarding the final phase of Sri Lanka’s war against the LTTE, in an appropriate forum. Marapana made this remark prior to the debate on Heads of Expenditure of Foreign Affairs […]

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The deadly ignorance of the Sinhala Alt-Right – I

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island November 26, 2017, 8:54 pm SIGNING OF THE INDO-LANKA ACCORD: Wasn’t the 13th Amendment forced upon us by India and therefore shouldn’t it be undone or at least ignored and not implemented “Ignorance never helped anyone yet!” — Karl Marx The crisis is escalating and proliferating daily. It is […]

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Prez and kite-flying

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

Editorial Courtesy The Island President Maithripala Sirisena, speaking at a gathering of North Western Province entrepreneurs in Kurunegala on Saturday, highlighted the all-pervasive ill-effects of unbridled economic liberalisation. Citing an example, he lamented that children no longer engaged in the pleasurable pursuit of making kites; instead, he said, they flew imported kites the local market […]

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Sri Lanka re-commits to accountability mechanism with special counsel

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island Following Sri Lanka’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held at the Human Rights Councils in Geneva on the 15th of November 2017, and the adoption of its Report on the 24th, a draft outcome document called “Draft report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review”, which includes recommendations […]

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හැබෑය. බිය ඇත්තේ අගමැති ලඟ නොව රටවැසියා ලඟය !

Saturday, November 25th, 2017

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමට සාක්ෂි ලබා දීමට අගමැතිවරයා කැඳවීම පිලිබඳ පුවත මේ දිනවල රටේ දේශපාලන කතාබහ අතර ප්‍රධාන තැනක් ගනී. නව ව්‍යවස්ථාව සම්බන්ධ කතිකාවන්ගෙන්ද අඩුවක් නැත. ඒ පිලිබඳව ජනතාව අතර විවිධ මත ගැටුම් ඇතිවෙත්දී, උතුරු පලාත් මහ ඇමතිවරයා විසින් පාසලක පැවති උත්සවයකදී ජාතික කොඩිය එසවීම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරීම, එම මත ගැටුම් තීව්‍ර කිරීමට හේතුවක් විය. නමුත් […]

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ජාතියේ සතුරන් හඳුනා ගනිමු

Saturday, November 25th, 2017

එස්. අකුරුගොඩ ඉතිහාසය පුරාම ආක්‍රමකයින් බලය ලබාගැනීම සහ පවත්වා ගැනීම සදහා අවිආයුධ වලට අමතරව ජනමතය විවිධාකාරයෙන් යොදවාගත් ආකාරය අපි අසා දැන ඇත්තෙමු.  ජාතිද්‍රෝහීන්ගේ ක්‍රියාකලාපයන් හේතුකොටගෙන අපි ශතවර්ෂ ගණනාවක් විදේශීන්ට යටත්ව සිටියෙමු.  1815 -1818 කාලය තුල බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය  ආක්‍රමකයින් රට තුලින්ම සොයාගත් බලලෝභී පුද්ගලයින් මගින් ජනමතය හසුරවමින් බලය ලබාගත් ආකාරයත් බලය තහවරු කරගැනීමට යොදන විවිද උපක්‍රම මේ […]

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ජනාධිපති තුමාට සාමාන්‍ය වැසියෙකු ගෙන් පිලිතුරු

Saturday, November 25th, 2017

සෝමපාල සෙනරත් ජනාධිපති තුමා දූෂණයට, වංචාවට එරෙහිව තීන්දු තීරණ ගන්නාවිට එයට විරුද්ධව තමාට චෝදනා එල්ල කරන්නේනම් තමන් සියලූ තනතුරු අතහැර ජනතාව සමග එක්ව එම සටන ඉදිරියටම ගෙන යාමට සූදානම් බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. සාමාන්‍ය වැසියා මේක පොඩිඑකාගේ ලිවුම වැනි බොලඳ කියමනකි.අපි ඔබතුමා පත්කලේ පාරට බැසීමට නොවේ. දූෂණයට, වංචාවට එරෙහිව  ඔබට ගතහැකි හොඳම […]

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Impending arrest of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa

Saturday, November 25th, 2017

by C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island * Prez. Sirisena desperately woos JO for his political survival * UNP in frantic moves to expedite elections to hobble Sirisena * JVP in bid to wash off its sins in voting for new elections laws November 25, 2017, 7:37 pm Virtually everything said in this column about the […]

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එක් දින පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණ ‘මිත්‍යාවකි‘.  නෛතික බාධාවක් නොමැති පළාත් පාලන ආයතන 93 හි ඡන්ද විමසීම පැවැත්විය යුතුය.

Saturday, November 25th, 2017

පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය   ඡන්දය කල් දමා ගැනීමේ දේශපාලන අරමුණ ඇති පෙත්සම්කරුවන් හරහා අධිකරණය මගින් ඡන්දය කල් දමා ගැනීමේ ගිලටීනයට හසුව නැති පළාත් පාලන ආයතන 93 ක ඡන්දය විමසීම සදහා මැතිවරණ කොමිසම කටයුතු කළ යුතු බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් නිකුත් කළ ගැසට් නිවේදනය පාදක කොට ගෙන පළාත් පාලන […]

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SRI LANKA’S SINHALA BUDDHIST CULTURAL IDENTITY

Saturday, November 25th, 2017

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane My motherland – whatever label you may wish to ascribe to it – Heladiva, Helabima, Sinhalay or Sri Lanka, has existed from ancient times, as a single political entity or an island nation, within the same natural oceanic borders. The boundaries of all ancient countries have undergone changes at different times in […]

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PM at the Commission: Questions that may or may never be answered

Saturday, November 25th, 2017

Rajan Philips The reactions to the Prime Ministers testimony and answers last week at the Commission of Inquiry have been as mixed as the varying opinions about the man himself and his politics. “Ranil resolute before Bond Commission” exulted one admiring headline in a financial daily. Being resolute means: admirably purposeful; determined; unwavering. The senior […]

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If the gift for freeing country is prison, so be it – Gotabaya -රට නිදහස් කලාට දෙන තෑග්ග හිරේ දාන එක නම් ඒක ප්‍රශ්නයක් නෑ

Saturday, November 25th, 2017

Ada Derana

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Go Faizer Go – Take your Aappayaa and Go

Friday, November 24th, 2017

by : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Faizer Mustapha is a blend of arrogance, bluffing, misleading, deception and cheating.  There has never been a parliamentarian possessing all these negative characteristics in Sri Lanka or may be anywhere in the world and I presume that this man, the son of a popular legal luminary of this country and […]

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Response to Kate Cronin-Furman’s article in the Washington Post

Friday, November 24th, 2017

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . CANADA. 23 November 2017 (KINDLY PASS THIS LETTER ON TO THE EDITOR) The Editor The Washington Post 1301 K.Street NW Washington DC 20071 US Dear Editor: The article that you published by Kate Cronin-Furman, Are Sri Lankan officers ordering soldiers to sexually […]

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Culture shock

Friday, November 24th, 2017

By Rohana R. Wasala In my opinion, two visiting British women were made to experience different forms of culture shock in Sri Lanka recently.  Both were subjected to discrimination and harassment, though in the later or the second case described here, these elements were almost totally concealed by melodrama. The reference here is to tourist […]

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Clinical Meditation

Friday, November 24th, 2017

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge  Clinical Meditation is a new form of therapy that can be used to treat a large number of physical / psychological / psychiatric ailments. For centuries meditation was considered as a type of religious practice forgetting its clinical aspect. A large body of research highlights the clinical value of meditation. Meditation […]

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POISONING WITH POISONED ARMS

Friday, November 24th, 2017

ALI SUKHANVER There is a worldwide ban on the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their precursors under the Chemical Weapons Convention 1993. International law has prohibited the use of chemical weapons since 1899, under the Hague Convention: Article 23 of the Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land adopted […]

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Views expressed by politicians regarding treasury bond scam-බැඳුම්කර සිද්ධිය ගැන පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ මත

Friday, November 24th, 2017

Views expressed by politicians regarding treasury bond scam බැඳුම්කර සිද්ධිය ගැන පක්ෂ විපක්ෂ මත

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SILENCE GIVES CONSENT

Friday, November 24th, 2017

Ranjith Soysa I intend to draw the attention of President Maithripala Sirisena through you esteemed website as his silence and refusal to nail the counter on at least three important issues raise a question whether he is only acting as a baby’s dummy. The three issues regarding which the President has still not taken any […]

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