By H. L. D. Mahindapala ƒ”š‚ The East-West alliance that is designed to shape the global agenda in the 21st century was defined by Robert O. Blake Jr, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in his testimony given before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on April 5, 2011. He said categorically that America […]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1ƒ”š‚  Canada ƒ”š‚  April 18, 2011 ƒ”š‚  The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN ƒ”š‚  Sir: Peter Showler’s article “Detained Tamils case exposes Canada’s brutal refugee policy” also exposesƒ”š‚  how Canada was naive when we screamed and yelled at the Sri Lankan Governmentƒ”š‚  during the […]

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Malin Abeyatunge The three stooges have completed the report against Sri Lanka and handed over to UN Secretary General (UNSG) Ban-Ki-Moon. The Executive summary of the advisory panel appeared in the print media which gives various allegations against the Sri Lanka Government. Firstly, this is a panel arbitrarily appointed by current UNSG without the approval […]

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By Mario Perera, Kadawata People in glass house must not throw stones. What happens when they do? Well they break their window panes and become all the more scrutable and assailable. The axis of evil has done it again. First there were the World Wars, their dirty wars into which they dragged their colonies. Then […]

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Chandre Dharmawaradana The ” correct” usage of a word orƒ”š‚  a language is ultimately dictated by the majority usage prevalent in the language. However, even then one should look atƒ”š‚  what the learned have said to find out what is the “accepted way”.ƒ”š‚  This note is written in the hope that those interested in the […]

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Dr.Tilak Fernando Cricket is a “ƒ”¹…”team’ game that demands a great deal of concentration and physical energy. Any lapses will not only be costly but certain to give the opponents the advantage to dominate Mahela Jayawardene, in 2007 and Kumar Sangakkara’s captaincy during the 2011 ICC World Cup helped Sri Lanka to come up to […]

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Ratanapala Ben Silva claims he is a Buddhist. He goes on to say that Nirvana or Nibbana the ultimate goal of Buddhism is extinction. He says: ƒ”š‚ To be specific, this idea of seeking Nirvana, a hindu /Tao belief and is not attractive to me. I consider seeking Nirvana (extinction) to be an idea from a […]

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C.Seneviratne Kent Peace and tranquillity dawned on the country because of the supreme sacrifice of the fallen heroes. The country just finished a period of celebration and joy staging the cricket world cup without the fear of bombs and destruction. The cerebratory image thus created in the country was there to be seen worldwide . […]

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