Sri Lanka News
Sri Lanka has received another nod as a top travel destination. National Geographic has listed Sri Lanka 2nd in its “25 Best New Trips for 2010.”
Ranked 20 in the list, Sri Lanka was one of only three other South Asian nations to make the list. Bhutan clinched the number one spot while Nepal [...]

Vajeera Warnakulasuriya
Hon.Mr.Stephen Smith,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Federal Government of Australia
Canberra
Dear Sir,
Ministerial Statement on the 17th March in Federal Parliament
It was encouraging to see that the foreign minister of Australia reading a balanced report on Sri Lanka at the recent Parliamentary sitting. All over the Globe we hear, read, biased reports “prepared by anti Sri Lankan agents” [...]

Press Release   Media Secretary- 18/03/2010
Kharithathu Ththareeq, a Road Map to address issues affecting the Muslim community in Sri Lanka was presented to the President of the All Ceylon Jammayathul Ulama, AlHaj M.I.M. Rizwe Mufthi, by Minister Milinda Moragoda, Leader of the Sri Lanka National Congress (SLNC) amidst a large gathering of Muslim community leaders at Marine [...]

ALI SUKHANVER
It is not the gun but the gunner that hits the target. A very sophisticated weapon becomes useless when it comes to unskilled and inexperienced hands. Skill and experience joined together with wisdom can do miracles. Wisdom is the only element which is always important from beginning till the end, in all problematic matters [...]

By Stanley Perera
My dear Mr. Abeykone,
A Sri Lankan living in Italy in the past 25 years arrived at Katunayake Air Port by UL563 on 06.03.2007 at 0500. W.M.Luxman Cyril Wickremaratne was the first passenger to arrive at the immigration counter. The immigration officer at the first glance at the passport said that there is no [...]

 Island Editorial -Courtesy The Island  
 The UN is behaving like a jackal at the beck and call of the West bent on removing from its path strong leaders of the global south, who refuse to fall in line. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon seems to be having sleepless nights trying to figure out how to [...]

Nihal Perera Toronto, Canada
Attention: Mr. Joe Fiorito–
The Toronto Star
One Young Street
Toronto, ON
M5E 1E6
 Dear Mr. Fiorito,
 I am amazed at the degree of gullibility and naivety you have shown in the following article….. As a Toronto Star Columnist, you seem to have been taken for a ride by the Tamil Tiger (LTTE) supporters in Canada, to publish [...]

Gamini Sarath Godakanda
As part of his no-frills campaign to put the focus of the elections back on the community, the Leader of the Sri Lanka National Congress (SLNC), Milinda Moragoda today presented a donation to the Hindu College, Bambalapitiya. The donation, which will be used towards the restoration and extension of the roof of the [...]

Tehran, Iran
Culture: Diversity or Integrity

Multiculturalism and Global Peace
Asia: Diversity or Unity in Cultures
Intercultural Dialogue: Approaches and Outcomes
Media, Communication and Common Good
Globalization, Religion and Common Good

Islam: New Challenges, New Perspectives

Islam and the Crisis of Modern Man
Islam and Other Faiths: Truth or Salvation
Islam and Woman: Rights and Commitments
Islam: Traditionalism [...]

Dr Hector Perera
I am delighted to say that I had a successful live demonstration of these scientific cooking thanks for ITN channel in Sri Lanka. It was broadcasted live on Sunday the 1st of November 2009 around 7.00 am to 7.30 am. During the interview, I mentioned that rice will be cooked in a given [...]

Dr. Ifthikhar Ahmad Ayaz, OBE
1.(Officer of the Excellent Order of the British Empire)
2. Consul General of Tuvalu Island in the United Kingdom
3. Senator World Nations Congress
4. Ambassador of Peace appointed Universal Peace Foundation
5. Recipient of International Peace Prize
6. Member UN Human Rights Council Committee in the Rights of
    Minorities – Rights of Woman / Rights [...]

RANJIT WICKREMERATNE
This is a story of two similar individuals starting by the name Sarath. One was a retired army officer and the the other one was a retired chief justice. Both were heros once a upon a times when they were living like lords of the jungle. They were both greedy for power and wealth. They [...]

Nadira GUNATILLEKE -courtesy Daily News
The NAM has very strongly condemned the announced intention of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to appoint a Panel of Experts to advise on accountability issues relating to Sri Lanka, said Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe.
Speaking at a press conference at the Government Information Department yesterday, Samarasinghe [...]

SUSANTHA  WIJESINGHE
Dear  Your  Excellency The President,  MAHINDA RAJAPAKSHA  !
 
It is with a lot of hope and anxiety, that I make this suggestion to you. Perhaps, there would be many, whose thoughts would be symbolic of mine.
 
I would love to see the day, that YOU will initiate the formation of the SOUTH EAST ASIA NATIONS. Your Excellency [...]

by Lt Col.(Retd.) Anil Amarasekera
Considering the history of warfare be it a war between two nations, or an internal civil war within a nation, ninety percent of all such wars have been fought for the acquisition of land. Here in Sri Lanka too the separatist war that ended on 19th of May 2009 with the [...]

Vajeera Warnakulasuriya, Melbourne, Australia
International Monetary Fund,
700 19th Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.
20431, USA
The Director,
 
Dear Sir,
 Post Sri Lanka with the Eradication of World’s most brutal Terrorist movement! 
 Sri Lanka, which should be an insignificant tiny country for the powerful Western countries, has been interfered in their internal matters, just to satisfy a disgruntled block merely to grab the vote [...]

By Gamini Gunawardne Retd. Snr. DIG Courtesy The Island 
 This is in connection with the article by Dr. Dayan Jayatillke in ” The Island” of 15th Feb, titled “The Fonseka affair: A perfect blunder?”The purpose of my exercise here is not really to contradict or confirm the views expressed therein by Dr. Jayatilleke, but with a [...]

Anura Seneviratna, Dr MB Ranatunga, Sumith de Silva, Asanka Haradasa, Sapumal Watteaarachchige, Ira Mediwake, Ranjith Wijetunge, Dhanapala Godagangdeni, Sam Samararatne (for expat Hela team). 
Graceless reduction to egotistical psyche from wholesome and potent national cohesion is indeed a tragedy. But we cannot be blamed for it if causality is thoroughly examined, which is mainly the sinister [...]

Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya,Melbourne, Australia
To the Attention of Damien Carrick,
Law Report,
ABC Australia

This is to correct an erroneous presentation of a Bodhisattva story by you during the discussion you had with Charles DiSalvo, under the topic “Mahatma Gandhi: from lawyer to national liberator” on the 9th of March, ABC
Excerpt from the discussion
 Damien Carrick*: Charles, I know that Gandhi [...]

Ananda w. P. Guruge
BUDDHISM TODAY AND AESTHETIC CREATIVITY – A MISCELLANY OF RECENT ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND SPEECHES covers many areas of my personal interests in the field of Buddhist studies and action. I have shared these views, opinions, observations and concerns with many audiences in all parts of the world over the last decade. The [...]

By James Jayalath from Melbourne
http://cjpcbrisbane.wordpress.com
Dear Mr. Arndt,
I have read your article published in Catholic Justice and Peace Commission website on 02/03/10 and the Catholic Leader on 07/03/10.
As a Catholic I am ashamed to read articles like this because you attract an audience on the Internet to read utter rubbish, and you want people to believe [...]

Reflections by comrade Fidel
It is not an ideological issue related to the definitive hope that a better world is, and should be, possible.
It is a known fact that the homo sapiens has existed for about 200 thousand years, which is no more than a tiny span of the time passed since the emergence of the [...]

By Malinda Seneviratne
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has advocated, alternatively, and how! This was in a piece published in a daily newspaper (‘Rajapaksa regime in grip of “missing enemy” syndrome’). He has for a long time operated like an authority of international relations, advocating an alarmist don’t-upset-the-West line (in June, 2009 he wrote: ‘Sri Lanka’s foreign policy: missing [...]

L Peiris
Sri Lanka does not care damn if India does or does not welcome the restrictions that had been imposed on the displaced Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. Certain restrictions had to be imposed on Sri Lankans of Tamil origin as they were rescued from LTTE terrorist lairs and until circumstances are conducive to [...]

Lanka peiris
India wants to set up a Consul-General’s office in Jaffna to create further mischief for the Sri  Lanbkan people and restore connectivity of separatist ideology and Indian Foreign Secretary, Nirupama Rao is not a babe in the woods in these activities.
Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata are  the capitals of separate states and each of [...]

by DEMOS, Courtesy The Island 
Navaneetham Pillay, the UN Human Rights Commissioner, has started her all too familiar, ‘War Crimes Investigation’ refrain once again, to coincide this time, quite ‘accidentally’, with the upcoming parliamentary election. She has been going for Sri Lanka’s jagular ever since the Government crushed her fond band of LTTE terrorists.It has almost [...]

by Kath Noble , Courtesy The Island 
Nearly a year after the Security Forces killed Prabhakaran and finished the decades long conflict, the Government continues to be haunted by allegations of war crimes. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has called for an international investigation on many occasions. Last week, as she repeated [...]

Gamini Godakanda
In the case of political representation in Sri Lanka, we cannot even refer to a ‘glass-ceiling’ – as women have been kept in the ‘basement’ of politics. This was one of the opinions stated by Leader of the Sri Lanka National Congress, Milinda Moragoda at a meeting held on Saturday in Maradana, which included [...]

Sarath W
The recent article by Peter Arndt on Sri Lanka is just another attempt by some ignorent Australian playing god just because he works for the Catholic Justice Commission. It is strange to hear a Australian talking about human rights. One has to  only look to the Australian abroginies to see what human rights they [...]

ALI SUKHANVER-The writer is a Pakistan based bilingual analyst on national and international strategic and defense affairs.
According to all dictionaries of English language, ‘raw ‘means crude and coarse, unprocessed and untreated ; these meanings  seem very much close to reality  when we look at the working of the world famous  intelligence agency RAW. The name [...]