Senaka Weeraratna With India currently in the throes of a General Election with a probable result likely to have a far reaching impact on India’s relations with the rest of the world particularly Sri Lanka it is in our interest in Sri Lanka to have as great an understanding of India as possible particularly its […]

 Shenali D Waduge Is the Christian dominated press, often accused of functioning as a 5th column, attempting to create new nomenclatures or simply upto usual mischief as directed by their sponsors in attempting to throw a new phrase to what has been traditionally used? There is no Sinhala-Hindu New Year, in Sri Lanka we celebrate […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma  The traditional Oil Anointing State Ceremony for the Sinhala and Hindu New Year was held this morning (16 April) at the Yatawatta Raja Maha Viharaya premises in Kossinna, Ganemulla at Gampaha under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Chief Sangha Nayake of Siyane Korale Venerable Thorapitiye Ananda Nayaka Thero. The […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: All Assam Media Employees’ Federation (AAMEF) has welcome the recent verdict of the Supreme Court to implement the Majithia Wage Board recommendations for journalists & non-journalists newspaper & news agency employees from this month onwards and urged the media house owners to follow the ruling of the apex court of India. […]

Shenali D Waduge  The Government of Sri Lanka on 1st April 2014 banned the LTTE and 16 LTTE fronts and named 424 individuals and organizations to be investigated for links to terror. These entities are all operating from overseas with leaders having ties with foreign politicians and parliamentarians as well as tied to various charities […]

Sunny Sunil’s Column Of Critical Analysis Of Matters Involving Sri Lanka. April 16th. 2014 Ir seems compellingly obvious that the present Canadian Administration of PM. Stephen Harper has made a Faux Pas by suspending Canada’s voluntary contribution towards the Commonwealth Secretariat chaired by Sri Lanka  through circumventing the responsibility of allocations to the Commonwealth Secretariat  where Sri […]

Herold Leelawardena John Baird, Foreign Affairs Minister of Canada says, he has withdrawn Canada’s $10-million annual voluntary contribution to Commonwealth. It is obvious that Baird has joined his neo con gang to force Sri Lanka to agree to their witch-hunt. He tells us that there is no ‘principles of freedom, democracy and respect for human dignity’ in […]

Dilrook Kannangara Parag Khanna’s article in CNN titled “How Strategic is Sri Lanka” is both refreshing and deceiving. While it contains a number of factual observations, it also contained a number of inaccuracies and miscalculations of geopolitical issues.  http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/09/opinion/sri-lanka-strategic-value-parag-khanna/ Inaccuracy 1: ‘Ceylon was known under Portuguese rule; the Dutch deepened and expanded their colonial rule […]

Sunny Sunil’s Column Of Critical Analysis Of Matters Involving Sri Lanka. April 16th. 2014 It may be premature to assume that the current electoral process ongoing in neighbouring India would result in a New Order of political leadership but as the polls seem to suggest there is every likelihood of a regime change where hopefully […]

By Bandu de Silva The article presented below was written last year just before I went to Australia for a few months and consequently, it remained unpublished. Mr.Hakeem’s forty-page Report given to UNHRC Human Rights Commissioner, Navi Pillai, which has now surfaced in the public domain, has created new interest in what Mr.Hakeem says. It […]

Shenali D Waduge  When the country that had been occupying Sri Lanka, plundering its wealth and advocating policies to exterminate the majority populace and dividing the people continues to harp on inquiries against Sri Lanka and now declares a travel advisory against Sri Lanka, we need to next question exactly how safe Britain is. Having […]

Vijitha Tennekoon Courtesy The Daily News In 2005, when the Rajapaksa government was elected to power, a small coterie of the International community(SCIC) had, through the vehicle of Tamil Nationalism (powered by motors of terrorism), through Wickremesinghe’s CFA, through Kumaranatunga’s PTOM, then again through Kumaranatunga’s Norwegian funded Sudu Nelum ‘Kolama’, and through the Foundations and […]

George Rupesinghe Sydney, Australia Where is the sound and the fury from the vocal human rights campaigners to the travesty of justice in Egypt where 529 people have been sentenced to death after a two-day trial and without any opportunity to defend themselves? And where Australian journalist Peter Greste is being put through a farcical […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar April 15th. 2014 Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the UNHCR Summit in Geneva with respect to the passing of US led resolution for an international investigation into human rights violations during the Tamil Tiger insurgency passed by simple majority albeit the requirement of a two third majority in the opinion of […]

by Bandu de Silva With reference to Shenali Waduge’s article, I find that my article (two parts) published in 2007 s not accessible on the Internet though the title is present. Therefore, I am repeating it below. A look at an Insider’s Challenge to History   – Brown Sahibs and Cultural definitions Reading the last part […]

Shenali D Waduge There was a sigh of relief throughout Sri Lanka when the announcement that fugitive Gobi and accomplices were shot dead in the jungles of Padaviya on Friday 11th April 2014. The incident coming 5 years after the end of the elimination of ground force of the LTTE draws attention to some key […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Assn. Lower Hutt. The Editor , The DomPost. Dear Editor, More facets to American  Hypocrisy raised by Peter Dyer bear highlighting. In the 70’s US ensured the relocation of  the entire population of the island of  Diego Garcia against their wishes to establish a  base and prevented […]

By Manjula Fernando– Courtesy The Daily News The recent arrest of key LTTEer Nanthagopan while attempting to flee to UK and his repatriation by Malaysian authorities for questioning in Colombo, is claimed to be a turning point in Sri Lanka’s second war with the LTTE on the diplomatic front. Prof. Rohan Gunaratne International Terrorism Expert […]

Dr.Tilak Fernando   (Nicky Karunarathna continues…….) One ‘Faqi Hussain’ wrote to me after reading Life Abroad Pt.73 stating thus: “What relevance has this week’s article got to do with Life Abroad? In any case, who is this guy Nicky Karunarathna, you talk so much about”…? Obviously the respondent had not followed the earlier episodes! Had […]

Observer -Courtesy: Sunday Times “Ordering by the beat of the drum that no animals should be killed within a radius of seven gau from the city, he gave security to animals. He also gave security to the fish in the twelve great tanks, and bestowing on (the region’s people) gold and cloth and whatever other […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala One clear parallel that runs in the secessionist wars of Sri Lanka and American is that both wars were fought within a democratic frame work, however flawed both may have been. Abraham Lincoln had to curtail civil liberties and even imprison newspaper editors during the Civil War. Sri Lanka too fought […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala “I’ll keep them in prison for a while to keep them from killing  the Government” – Abraham Lincoln, the greatest maker of American history, commenting on the imprisoned Coles County rioters (not to mention 13,000 other dissenters) during the American Civil War (1861 -1865). The American Ambassadress, Michele Sisson, has come […]

Janaka Perera  “The biggest threat to the Asian region is how the US is wooing the Indian government and its corporate sector, and promoting the idea – in a very subtle way –  that Indian and Chinese civilizations are different. Indians seem to be falling into this trap at the moment.”  Kalinga Seneviratne, Adjunct Lecturer […]

Jayantha Gunasekera Courtesy:  Daily News At the UNHRC sessions in March 2014, India’s advisors saw through the move by USA, UK, EU and Canada on the one side, and TNA, LTTE diaspora and TN Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on the other side, to destabilize India, using the Sri Lankan issue. Quoting the Editorial of the Sunday […]

Rasika Somarathna -Courtesy The Daily News Three wanted criminals and hardcore LTTE cadres, including Kajeeban Ponniah Selvanayagam alias Gobi, who were leading attempts to revive the now essentially defunct LTTE with the support of the overseas based pro-Tiger Tamil diaspora were killed during a confrontation with the security forces in the jungles off Padaviya yesterday. […]

Shenali D. Waduge  The news of Dr. Sudarshan Seneviratne being nominated to represent Sri Lanka in India was reported in a Sunday newspaper http://www.sundaytimes.lk/140406/news/top-diplomatic-posts-to-be-filled-soon-91892.html . Superceding Dr. Seneviratne’s lack of diplomatic experience as envoy to India is the fact that his ‘multicultural’ mindset will not harmonize with the nationalist views of the future Narendra Modi’s […]

Mal Munasinha Orleans, ON April 9, 2014 Hon. John Baired Minister of Foreign Affairs House of Commons Parliament Hill Ottawa, ON Honourable Mr. Baired, WHY ARE YOU COVERING FOR THE TAMIL TERRORISM?   I found out the debate that took place in Parliament on Monday the 7th of April, 2014 about the Tamil individuals and […]

Shenali D Waduge Those in the Indian-basket were quick to shower merit upon India for deciding to be on the fence in a decision that had nothing to do with Sri Lanka and everything to do with India beginning to realize that India’s balkanization was not far off. India’s decision also had influence of the […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Ongoing investigation into an abortive bid to smuggle in 36 kgs of heroin with a street value of Rs: 360 mn has taken an unexpected turn with British authorities claiming one of those who had been taken into custody following the detection was an undercover agent, working for them. Police […]

LANKA FASTEST NEXT TO CHINA – UK FT – Courtesy The Daily News No extraneous factors deterred investors Sri Lanka’s economy grew at a rate of 7.2 per cent over the past financial year, making the island one of Asia’s fastest-growing markets after China, states the Financial Times of London in an article. The successful […]