Prof. Hudson McLean This is history repeating itself, now in Sri Lanka. The story is not new. Similar events have occurred in every Continent in these two centuries. Will Sarath Fonseka become the Pervez Musharaff of Sri Lanka? Oh! Fonzy cannot be compared with other political leaders who did spend sometime eating “cold rice”! If […]

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Warnakulasuriyaƒ”š‚  Is Sarath Fonseka the war hero some like to him to be or is he a fake? Where does his loyalities are? To Sri Lanka or to the foreign powers who sponsor him? Sarath Fonseka claims full credit for defeting the LTTE terrorist scum. To do that he must have been in total control […]

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Shenali Waduge Too often political parties and politicians have made a mockery of democracy by forwarding attractive manifestos promising the people they have the answers to all the ills that prevails but no sooner they are elected the promises are broken leaving voters with no means to challenge these parties. A solution to ensuring that […]

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Asada M Erpinni A media report on 22 May mentions the leader of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) as saying that the military presence in the North should be reduced. Apparently it is his response to President Mahinda Rajapakse’s announcement at the May 19 Anniversary Celebrations of the victory over the LTTE. The TNA leader should […]

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S.Senanayake The Controller of Department of Immigration and Emigration, Mr Chulananda Perera has to be commended for bringing to public notice the problem of Indians masquerading as tourists and engaging in employment locally. Though belated one wonders why such eventuality was not for seen by the authorities when tourism was opened up in mass scale. […]

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Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Lecture “Out of Africa and the Significance of the South Asian Archaeological Record”ƒ”š‚ Byƒ”š‚ Prof. Michael D. Petraglia Professor of Human Evolution and Prehistory, University of Oxford 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‚  on Thursday 24thƒ”š‚ Mayƒ”š‚  2012ƒ”š‚ at 5.00 p.m.ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium, No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colomboƒ”š‚  07 ALL ARE WELCOME Thisƒ”š‚ lecture […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka’s main opposition the United National Party has appointed a committee chaired by Wijedasa Rajapaksa to draft a private member’s bill to win back the civic rightsƒ”š‚  of the former Commander of army Sarath Fonseka , said the party’s General Secretary, Tissa Attanayaka. The private member’s bill will seek to win […]

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