Archive for August 21st, 2014
Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Shenali D Waduge Known for his candid demeanor and straight talk, Dr. Subramaniam Swamy did not mince his words during his eagerly awaited speech at the 4th consecutive Defense Seminar held at the Galadari Hotel from 18-20th August 2014. Encapsulating the gist of Dr. Swamy’s message was the need for minorities in particular the Sri […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
CHAMINDA PERERA Courtesy The Daily News India will not accept any inquiry against SL Sri Lanka’s issue not ethnic, but linguistic Chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Committee for Strategic Action and Leader of the Janatha Party Dr. Subramanian Swamy yesterday said Sri Lanka’s victory over terrorism helped ensure the security of India too. […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinhahas said, “while we have defeated the LTTE in Sri Lanka, the organization, its ideology and its operations are very much alive in a number of Western countries. Immediately, this remains a challenge to speeding up the pace of reconciliation in […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මහනුවර මඟුල් මඩුව ක්රිස්තියානි පල්ලියකට පරිවර්තනය කිරීමට හෝටන් ආණ්ඩුකාරයා එංගලන්තයෙන් අවසර ඉල්ලා සිටියේය –1826 02 26 ලිපිය.සිංහලයන් බල වත් ලෙස විරුධ්ධවේයය් බියෙ න් එය එංගලන්තයෙන් ප්රතික්ෂේප විය. —බෞද්ධ කොමිෂන් වාර්තාව්වේ 66 . පසුව ඒ වෙනුවට පන්සල් ඉඩමකම බෞද්ධ මුලින්ම ශාන්ත පෝල් පල්ලිය ඉදිකරන ලදී. එම් .f ප ගසන් ගේ “ලංකාව 1903 දී “””. […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Courtesy http://lankacnews.com පසුගිය සෙනසුරාදා වාරියපොල බස් නැවතුමේදී තරුණියක් විසින් තරුණයෙකුට පහු දෙන අයුරු අන්තර්ජාලය පුරා වේගයෙන් පැතිරී ගියේය. සිද්ධියට සම්බන්ද මධු නමින් හඳුන්වා ගත් තරුණිය තිලිණි ඉමල්කා, තරුණයා පී. චන්ද්රකුමාර නොහොත් සෙල්වා හා අසල සිටි පුද්ගලයා වූ බස් නැවතුමේ වේලා සටහන්කරුවෙකු වන ඩබ්. ජයසිංහ මාධ්ය වෙත අදහස් පල කරයි. සෙල්වම් අදහස් පල කරන්නේ මෙසේය. මම […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න හෙට්ටිආරචිචි විසින පෙන්වාදී ඇති ආදී හෙළ වචන වල ——– බද යන්න බඩ විය යුතුය ගෛගර් ලංකා ඉතිහාසය ගැන කල ප්රකාශය 1908 දී ආනන්ද කුමාරස්වාම්ය් මධ් ය කාලීන සිංහල කළා කෘතියේ පිටු අංක 2 දක්වා ඇත.උඩරට ගැමියාගේ අවංක භාවය ගැන 19 පිටුව බලන්න.අනුරපුර සුදු දිසාපති වාර්තාව—එහිම 19 පිටුවෙත් manual .north central province 43 පිටුව […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Shenali D Waduge There is a reason why there is constant reference to a supposed ‘joint statement’ issued between Sri Lanka and the UN signed by the Sri Lankan President and the UN Secretary General. The effort is to create a notion that a ‘contract’ prevails as a result of that ‘joint statement’ binding enough […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Many people interpret Buddhism as a religion and a philosophy (or a practical philosophy) known from antiquity. The Buddhism has a vast system of psychotherapy. The Buddhism offers mental healing allowing growth promotion. Buddhism is a method of mind training. Understanding of the function of mind has been recognized as the […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Monthly Public Lecture “Some Observations on Mudliyar David De Saram’s Pin Pota” by Prof. K. N. O. Dharmadasa Professor Emeritus, and the former Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya on Monday 25th August 2014 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Shenali Waduge Should the 3 powers of Asia combine to make a formidable global force? Its not a bad idea – in fact it’s an excellent idea and would provide Asia and inadvertently the world the balance of power and stability that is lacking. Against a declining West, Asia’s 3 formidable power houses are best […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
by Suwanda H J Sugunasiri (In honour of my Kalyana Mitta, the late Prof. Ananda W P Guruge) ————————– It was high-flying You decided to go, the Same way you Lived, for four score Plus years, seeking To pull everyone on your Path, to fuller heights, if Not to match yours, but To one’s own […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Pathfinderreform agenda to all political parties look for Presidential and Parliamentary election Manifestos Blueprint will be based on over 50 studies commissioned by the Pathfinder Foundation in the past with special emphasis on studies it has undertaken here some Sectorial Highlights Sanwada, Alert, Flash and Blast. – Growth momentum in Sri Lanka can only be […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Dr. Tilak Fernando James Emerson Tennent once described “Ceylon” as “an Island in the world that has attracted the attention of authors in so many distant ages and from so many different countries”. While I was a student in the UK, I made my first trip home after living in London for some years to […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Gunaseela Vitanage Bodhi Leaf No. 11 Buddhist Publication Society Kandy • Sri Lanka Buddhist Ideals of Government Our ancient kings considered hitherto the practice of virtue as their only duty; they knew how to rule without being severe and honoured the Three Jewels; they governed and helped the world, and were happy if men practised […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
siri Bandara සිංහල ගී කෙත සැරසූ ඔබ අප රසවිඳි අපූර්වතම හරවත් ගී සමුච්ඡයක රසය සහ ගීතයේ කතාව පිළිබඳව විවරණයක් සමඟින් ඔබට එම ගී තව තවත් සමීප කර වන්නට අපි ගන්න පුංචි උත්සාහයක් තමයි ගී සිළුමිණ. මේ සඳහා දායක වන්නේ හෙළ ගී කෙත පෝෂණය කරන්නට තම නිර්මාන දායකත්වය නිර්ලෝභීව පුදන ගේය පද රචක සහ කාව්යය […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
මාධ්ය අංශය තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්යාංශය පර්යේෂණ වලින් ආර්ථීකයට ලැබුණ ප්රතිදානය කුමක්ද යනුවෙන් අද සමහරුන් ප්රශ්න කරති. මෙයට පිළිතුරක් ලෙස තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ ක්ෂේත්රයේ ඉදිරි ගමන් මඟ පිළිබඳව පස් අවුරුදු සැලැස්ම සකස් කර තිබේ. මෙය ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමෙන් ආර්ථීකයට දක්වන දායකත්වය කොපමණද යන්න වසරින් වසර මැන බැලීමට කටයුතු කරන බව අමාත්ය චම්පික රණවක මහතා විශ්වවිද්යාල ආචාර්යවරුන් […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
By Nalin de Silva What is the most important function of a government of any country? The governments whether elected according to western democracy or not have to look after the security of the state and maintain the sovereignty of the nation. The other functions of the governments include providing health, education, employment, food, childcare, […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
George Rupesinghe Sydney, Australia HE the Ambassador of the USA to Sri Lanka The United States Embassy Colombo Sri Lanka Excellency I have noted, with some outrage, your recent expressions of concern in the statements on incidents such as disruption of meetings, alleged lack of press freedom etc in Sri Lanka. Is it appropriate that […]
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