Shenali D Waduge The British Empire was built largely on the back of Indian Sepoys who slaved and died for a pittance from their colonial masters. The term ‘sepoy’ was used for Indian soldiers who worked for the British East India Company and later the British Imperial Army. Nearly ninety-six percent of the British East India Company’s army of […]

By Bandu de Silva “You have met our opponents” That is what the Swiss President told me when I went to present Credentials as Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in the Swiss capital in 1984. The President actually used was “enemies” but I have sanitized it thinking that in a democracy like Switzerland they could not be […]

C. Wijeyawickrema                  Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke is writing to Colombo Telegraph as if his rear-end is on fire. On Jan 28, he wrote about his friend Lalith W’s wrong strategy in Geneva and America. On Jan 30, he is warning Wigneswaran (W) for trying to divide Sri Lanka (by passing a resolution asking for a […]

Shenali D Waduge The premeditated murder of innocent civilians was planned by LTTE on 31st January 1996. The time 10:45a.m. Premeditated murder is one of the most serious forms of homicide. The attack on Sri Lanka’s Central Bank was carefully planned, well thought out in advance and wilfully carried out on civilian targets unprepared and […]

වෛද්”à¶º චන්න ජයසුමන අදින් වසර 4කට පමණ එපිට සමාජයේ එතරම් කතා බහට ලක්”Œ නො වූ, වැඩි දෙනකු නො දැන සිටි වකුගඩු රෝගයක්”Œ ගැන අද බොහෝ දෙනකු කතා කරනු දක්”Œà¶±à¶§ ලැබේ. එපමණක්”Œ නො à·€ එක෠රෝගය සහ ඊට හේතු කාරණා වන දේ ගැන සංවාදය දලු ලා වැඩ෠නැ`ග෠යනු දක්”Œà¶±à¶§ ලැබේ. මෙක෠ප්”à¶»à·ƒà·Š”Œà¶­à·–ත වකුගඩු රෝගය ගැන […]

Chaminda Perera Courtesy The Daily News UN, other organizations accept LLRC as a credible process Govt not concerned about individual views Petroleum Industries Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa yesterday lashed out at British Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Hugo Swire for making a statement devaluing the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission […]

Nava Thakuria, Secretary, Journalists’ Forum Assam, Guwahati Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) and Arunachal Press Club (APC) have appealed to the media to exercise restrain while covering the border conflicts between the two neighbouring States in northeast India. The appeal was issued jointly after the incident of firing by armed miscreants at Bihali reserve forest […]

විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්”à¶ºà¶‚ශය නොරොච්චෝල ගල් අඟරු විදුලි බලාගාරය යථා තත්ත්වයට පත්කිරà·à¶¸ සඳහා සියලු විධිවිධාන යොදන බව, චà·à¶±à¶ºà·š CMEC (China Machinery Engineering Corporation) සමාගම, විදුලිබල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්”à¶º නà·à¶­à·’ඥ පවිත්”à¶»à· වන්නිආරච්චි මැතිනිය හමුවේ   à·ƒà·„තික වෙයි. නොරොච්චෝල ගල් අඟරු විදුලි බලාගාරය ඉදිකළ චà·à¶±à¶ºà·š China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) සමාගමේ ප්”à¶»à¶°à·à¶±à·à¶±à·Š හා එහි ඉදිකිරà·à¶¸à·Š සඳහා දායක වූ […]

Dr Hector Perera     London There are many kinds of sugars but we often come across mainly two kinds of sugars that are table sugar and fructose. There are good and bad sides of these kinds of sugars and sometimes people just eat them without due care.  The table or granulated sugar most customarily used as […]

Dr Marcus Waters It was more than two decades ago when I saw John Pilger’s 1986 documentary The Secret Country for the first time. I was a 17-year-old Aboriginal male suffering the indignity of public housing Australia. My identity came with a sense of collective oppression that turned my indignity into both resistance and motivation. […]