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Monday, February 12th, 2024
Top Spin by Sunny for LankaWeb Feb.9th 2024 As the cricket world turns in Sri Lanka there is another misconceived choice which has surfaced where the Sports Minister Harin Fernando has promoted the entry of another unknown entity in international cricket who has never played for his country which is not only eyebrow-raising but mind-boggling. […]
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Saturday, January 27th, 2024
Insight By Sunil Kumar Jan 26th 2024 There is an unwritten law that suggests:” Religious leaders should never dabble in politics” as it is not their call. Yes! there is that case of a certain Archbishop Desmond Tutu in S Africa where he too was accused of dabbling in politics with no right to do […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
Insight By Sunil Kumar (with news info – courtesy of an Info Lanka report)) Jan.24th 2024 When Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that the Government would be deploying a Navy vessel to the Red Sea. Wickremesinghe pointing out that the disruption of shipping lanes in the region would lead to increased freight charges and […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Insight by Sunil Kumar Jan.23rd. 2024 Alas ! our peaceful and tranquil Motherland Sri Lanka is suddenly being torn apart by gun violence. Yes! there are guns both legal and illegal everywhere, some in hands that have no compunction to use them readily and others who do have trepidations but still use them on various […]
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Monday, January 15th, 2024
Insight By Sunil Kumar Jan15th 2024 The President’s vision for Sri Lanka has certainly been recognized by the IMF and augurs well towards the future of Sri Lanka with Ranil Wickremasinghe at the helm with all his political savvy as the Nation emerges from the travails of the past with no thanks to past leaders […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
Top Spin By Suni Nov.11th 2023 It has finally happened and the axe has fallen on Sri Lanka Cricket confirming everyone’s fears including the President’s that the ICC will suspend Sri Lanka’s membership. What an ignominious shame and what an insult to a country renowned for her cricketing prowess and flair that goes back decades […]
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Sunday, October 29th, 2023
Top Spin by Suni (courtesy of cricinfo) Top Spin by Suni With thanks to: Shashank Kishore who is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo Oct. 27th 2023 “The entire Sri Lankan team stood together, their collective gaze fixed on the giant screen. The next moment, as the magic word “out” flashed, euphoria broke out. Sadeera Samarawickrama […]
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar While President Ranil Wickremasinghe insists that the Nation will maintain good relations with all countries and will take no sides he should also curb his Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Sabry from direct involvement in the ongoing conflict between India and Canada before it becomes an embarrassment to Sri Lanka straddled with […]
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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar It seems rather high handed and irresponsible for Former SupremeCourt Judge and MP CV Wigneshwaran of no mean repute as a troublemaker relative to Sinhala Tamil matters to make what appears to be alatent threat to the Government of Sri Lanka based on the fullimplementation of the 13th Amendment and needs […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar for LankaWeb The realities and perils of a Land Bridge are explained for the benefit of Sri Lanka’s President and her people who can ill afford any situation as posted here. This dangerous and frightening proposal needs to be discontinued permanently. ROAD LINK BETWEEN INDIA AND SRI LANKA A BRIDGE TOO […]
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Sunday, July 30th, 2023
Top Spin By Suni for LankaWeb It is sad and disgusting to watch our National Cricket Team get beaten to a pulp by a team of Pakistanis who are pretty good players nonetheless but not that powerful albeit with many new players who have beaten the Sri Lankans comprehensively on their own turf which is […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar For LankaWeb If anyone is wondering how Canada’s Prime Minister Mr. Justin Trudeau suddenly became very sympathetic towards Sri Lanka Tamils and even emphasized the term ‘Genocide’ towards his parlance and coined it with what he termed the massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka which is a downright misrepresentation of facts, […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar 25thJuly 2023 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has every right to protest incongruous statements by those without the real knowledge of what truly transpired in Sri Lanka during the three and a half decade long terrorist insurrection eventually put down by the Government Armed Forces in defense of her people and […]
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Monday, July 24th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar The recent proposal by President Wickremasinghe to approve a land bridge between Sri Lanka and India may not be beneficial to Sri Lanka from many perspectives.It could open the floodgates to many issues that have been contentious towards Sri Lanka’s National Security in the past and have been conscientiously kept secure […]
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Thursday, July 20th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar The events of the not too distant past relative to regime change seems to be of little or no avail relative to Law Enforcement when it comes to the circumstances which forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country. Rajapaksa, long implicated in corruption and draconian measures when he was defense […]
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Monday, July 17th, 2023
By Sunil Kumar The name Anandasagaree certainly does not get a stamp of approval from the Government of Sri Lanka with very valid reason hence the recent denial of an entry Visa to Sri Lanka by the Government of Sri Lanka to Gary Anandasagaree. Canadian MP Gary Anandasagaree inasmuch as his father V Anandasagaree of […]
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Friday, June 30th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar (with courtesy and acknowledgements to Colombo Page News Desk) A pointer towards those sources especially certain Tamil Organizations who from time continue to insist that Sri Lanka’s history has no authentication relative to the Sinhala Race has surfaced.They have often attributed the history of Sri Lanka to myth and folklore towards […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2023
Sunimal Perera Montreal, Canada 14th June 20 Alas! What conventional wisdom do we see of five men in a boat all a glee for a boat ride costing a million and quarter but ignoring warnings, they’ve gone to their slaughter in a cramped up space as adventurers full of spirit and such wanderers. The pressure […]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2023
Sunimal Perera Montreal, Canada In retrospect, the sad and sudden demise of the OceanGate Titan submersible in the dangerous swells of the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia, Canada has shaken the world and left many wondering after reading the intricate details of preparation and the safety factors which do appear to have been left wanting […]
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar Travelers have suddenly become aware of a painful reality that the “Pearl of the Indian Ocean,” also known as Sri Lanka has a sad reputation as a terror haven in the past four decades, a sinister cohort of despots, bloodthirsty separatists known as Tamil tigers, Che Guevarists and crooked and power-drunk […]
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
Lankaweb Poetry Corner by Sunil Kumar In the shadows of my weary soul, A haunting presence takes its toll. A weight upon my fragile heart, As sadness weaves its sublime art. Like an Autumn’s fading light, emotions dimmed and veiled from sight. A somber melody softly plays, as tears now dance in silent haze. A […]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
INSIGHT BY SUNIL KUMAR The aggravating news from Canada is that the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada has raised objections to the erection of a monument to commemorate what the Tamil community living there calls “genocide” of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka during the Tamil Tiger insurrection This follows in the heels of the […]
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Monday, May 22nd, 2023
By Sunil Kumar When the President of Sri Lanka urges all Sri Lankans to work together to build a prosperous country free of bankruptcy and all the ills of the recent past it is an assertive call to the nation which needs to be responded to beyond conjecture or speculation. The protocols surrounding his call […]
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Sunday, May 21st, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar Surprisingly Canadian Prime Minister Mr.Justin Trudeau seems to have taken a path which his World Respected father Mr. Pierre Elliot Trudeau who was once closely associated with Sri Lanka would never have taken by virtue of how well informed of world affairs he was and never once dipping into the till […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar May 15th 2023 Sri Lanka’s Political, Social and Economic issues on a daily basis continue to a degree unabated with little emphasis on the basic rights of her citizens relative to the Constitution which is circumvented in a subtle manner despite the rhetoric from the hierarchy where state intimidation and aggression […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2023
Top Spin By Sunny Yes the signs are quite visible that Sri Lanka may not make it to the next Cricket World Cup which some analyst and more perceptive observers see possible after the latest loss against what could be termed a second string New Zealand team where the big names of Angelo Mathews, Kusal […]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
Top Spin By Sunny Each day is a struggle for the players and a heartache for the adoring fans who continue to hope for a sudden surge that will stabilize the ship and sustain the momentum needed to correct all ills in a team floundering in a sea of uncertainty who once basked in the […]
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Friday, March 17th, 2023
Insight By Sunil Kumar March16.2023 ” Political, social and economic issues have suddenly sprung up alarmingly” says a popular and credible Watchdog reporting to the Media which despite their negative sounding nature needs to be heeded in this expected” Era of Progress ” since the woeful troubles of the past due mainly to a wayward, […]
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Friday, August 5th, 2022
Insight by Sunil Kumar Is this some kind if joke that Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) General Secretary MP Sagara Kariyawasam has said that if former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is willing to engage in politics with the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) after his return to Sri Lanka, the SLPP will gladly accept him? Or […]
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2022
INSIGHT BY SUNIL KUMAR July 19th 2022 The objective of this posting is not to cause alarm but to warn the Sri Lanka authorities to take preventive action before the Nation already imperiled by the Rajapaksa debacle takes another unexpected hit from an unlikely source which in all probabilities has been planning for exactly such […]
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