ƒ”š‚ Byƒ”š‚ Gomin Dayasriƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ In the foreseeable future a government with a 2/3 majority is unlikely. The people returned the present government for another term with a 2/3 majority for making the country secure. ƒ”š‚ But the country will never be safe with a constitution that vest police and land powers in the Provincial Councils and hold a […]

by Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada I wish to comment on an interesting article by Leelanada De Silva (Sunday Island of Jan. 28), from a scientist’s perspective.ƒ”š‚ Articles by Usvatta-aratchi and Carlo Fonseka (The Island Oct. 19), and by Gunadasa Amarasekera et al treated related topics. When my article entitled `Some lessons from China’ (The Island of […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. ƒ”š‚ “All human progress has depended on “ƒ”¹…”new questions’ rather than on “ƒ”¹…”new answers’ to the old questions.”Alfred North White “ƒ¢¢”š¬‚ Science and the Modern World, 1925 ƒ”š‚ Four blind men and the (devolution) elephant ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  The reactions to the LLRC report, on the subject of institutional, administrative and legislative measures need to […]

Ira de Silva London, Ontario, Canada Theƒ”š‚ Editor Ottawa Citizen Ottawa, Ontario ƒ”š‚  Dear Sir: ƒ”š‚  It is interesting to note that these Tamils went by ship to India first. It is logical as Tamil Nadu, India is their homeland. There areƒ”š‚ sixty oneƒ”š‚ million Tamils living there, the State Government is all Tamil, regularly lectures Sri Lanka […]

By Senaka Weeraratna As we celebrate our freedom from colonial rule on its 64th anniversary nothing is more conspicuous in our literature and written records as the absence of a White Paper and a Report of a Commission of Inquiry on the period of Western Colonial presence in Sri Lanka commencing from the landing of […]

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Malin Abeyatunge ƒ”š‚ Now the next session of the UNHRC in Geneva is around the corner, Amnesty International has already started its campaign against Sri Lanka who coughs for LTTE dollars with other humanitarian Organizations like Human Rights Watch (HRW) and International Crisis Group (ICG) to revive the demand to bring charges against Sri Lanka for […]

John Swinton, the doyen of the New York press corps, upon his recent retirement, made the following speech: “There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history inAmerica, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and […]

R Chandrasoma In a zero-sum game, the winner takes all and the loser is left high and dry to rue his losses. The native card-game of booruwa is a classic example of a zero-sum game. In the great game of politics, parties joust for success but the presumption that it is a kind of zero-sum […]

By Charles.S.Perera The infamous anti Sri Lanka DBS Jeyaraj introducesƒ”š‚  his latest Sri Lanka Basher , Louise Arbour,ƒ”š‚  describing her as, ƒ”š‚«ƒ”š‚  the distinguished Canadian whose name is not unknown to many in Sri Lanka”ƒ”š‚. Of course Sri Lanka has not forgotten theƒ”š‚  dubious roleƒ”š‚  she played as the UNHigh Commissioner for Human Rights, in […]

Janaka Wansapura, Ph.D. In 1807, Thomas Young demonstrated that light had wave properties by using a simple experiment now famously known as the Young’s double slit experiment. Young showed that the pattern of bright and dark fringes that forms on a screen when light passes through two narrow slits can be explained using the wave […]