Shenali D Waduge Ananthi Sasitharan is a TNA elected member of the Northern Provincial Council. She is also the wife of LTTE leader Elilan. Elilan was responsible for forcibly conscripting large numbers of Tamil children during the final stages of the war. Ananthi however, filed a court case and went global, crying over her ‘missing […]

Shenali D Waduge  This question needs to be asked and answered some time or the other and sooner the better. We are well aware that the LTTE ground leadership is no more including the LTTE leader – V. Prabakaran. However, over the years there have been a host of people living in Sri Lanka, living […]

BY  Gomin Dayasri   Landscape in the district of Badulla fits an archetypical UPFA groove. Yet, Ranil Wickremasinghe emerged a comfortable winner in 8 of the 9 constituencies in the Badulla district- [Mahiyanganaya, Passara, Badulla, Hali Ella, Uva Paranagama, Welimada, Bandarawela and Haputale] – at an election where Mahinda Rajapakse scaled the required barrier by […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) Retired Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike and President Senior Citizens Movement MAhanuwara. 22. 8. 2014. It is with much interest I read the article by my friend Ranjit Mulleriyawa in the Island of 8th August under the caption, ‘Preparing to meet future drought situations’. Though the heading as well as […]

RANJITH SOYSA The latest civil riots in Ferguson, Missouri underscored the fact that all is not well in the criminal justice system and police action in the USA. In a survey conducted recently around 75% of the Afro- Amercan and Hispanic people expressed that they do not have the confidence in the investigation process of […]

ALI SUKHANVER A few years back, I remember, I penned down an article, ‘Sri Lanka Thanks Pakistan’; the article was published in various national and international papers and magazines. The background of this write-up was Sri Lanka’s achievement in wiping off the LTTE terrorists and throwing them away from the Sri Lankan lands. In response […]

Prof. Suwanda H J Sugunasiri (writing from Canada)  Courtesy Island August 23, 2014, 6:21 pm     It was with a deep sense of loss that I read two emails the day following the passing away of Prof. Ananda W P Guruge. On the move always in the service of Buddha Dhamma, he died on […]

 මාධ්‍ය අංශය තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්‍යංශය    උණුසුම වැඩිවීම හා කාලගුණ විපර්යාස වලට පිළියම් යෙදිමට දැන් සිටම තිර ආයෝජනයක් සිදු නොවුනහොත් ජලය, ආහාර හිඟවීම හා ලෙඩරෝග ආදිය නිසා අද උපදින දරුවනට ආනාගතයේ මහත් විනාශයක් සිදුවීමට ඉඩ ඇතැයි තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්‍ය පාඨලි චම්පික රණවක මහතා ^ 23 & පැවසීය. ප්‍රෝෆුඩ් ප්‍රෝපැක් නමින් බණ්ඩාරනායක සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී […]

 By Charles.S.Perera The UN System is an organisation for a collective Member States.  Its actions should therefore be open and transparent as Member States are partners of its activities.  There cannot be hidden and secretive functions assigned to commissions appointed by the UN, its agencies, or organisations. All funds spent on activities undertaken by it […]

Chanaka Bandarage, Lawyer Establishment of OISL – first step towards creating the Eelam? As pointed out by us in previous articles, the final objective of the West, who are heavily indoctrinated with false accusations against Sri Lanka by the most powerful Tamil Diaspora and their allies, wishes to split Sri Lanka into two and create […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න 1883 දී  ලංකාව පළාත් 5 කට  සුද්දා විසින් බෙදුවේ  ඔවොන්ගේ පහසුව සැලසෙන පරිදි මිස රටට ගැලපෙනසේ නොවේ.===”’උඩරට රාජධානියේ සමගිය හා බලයද සම්බන්ධතා හා චාරිත්‍ර වාරිත්‍රද  කඩා බිඳ දැමීමේ අවශ්‍යතාව  නිසා රාජධානිය පරිපාලන කොටස් වලට කදීය යුතුය.”””1845දී  ටොරින්ටන් ආණ්ඩුකාරයා විසින් බ්‍රිතා න්න්ය නියෝජිත මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් කල  අංක 568xx v 1 සැසි පත්‍රිකාව — අපට […]

S. Akurugoda As per a news item appeared in The Island, in a letter addressed to outgoing UNHRC Chief Navanethem Pillay, 33 members of the North and East Provincial Councils (PC) consisting of ITAK, TULF, TELO, PLOTE and EPRLF (all representing TNA) have urged the UNHRC to expand its ongoing inquiry to investigate atrocities committed […]

Dr Hector Perera London Herbal, natural food flavouring are added in most of the Asian food such as in fish, meat and vegetable curries. Usually curry leaves, pandam leaves, lemon grass, cardamom, clove and cinnamon are some common herbal food flavourings. Apart from that cumin seeds, coriander, mustard, pepper and chillies are also added in […]

By Mike Whitney If you want to understand what is going on in Ukraine, then you need to watch this 15 minute video with Putin advisor and friend, Sergei Glaziev. Glaziev explains how structural changes in the global economy and a shift to Asia have precipitated a desperate attempt by US policymakers to maintain their […]

Dr D.Chandraratn Perth.  Recently in a National daily there was criticism of the President’s apparent trimming of the welfare budget and the increase in the public debt resulting from massive infrastructure projects undertaken, allegedly detrimental to public good aimed singularly at election victories. Obviously associated with these (or any other matter) two infamous issues were […]

SPUR (Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka Inc) To High Commissioner for Human Rights 21 August 2014 Extension of the mandate given by Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/25/1 OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka We notice with concern and alarm that the Time Frame referred to in the Terms of Reference for […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න අපට වෙච්ච දේ මොහොතකට නවතා  අපි කුමක් කල යුතු දය  බලමු.  දෙමල ත්‍ර ස්ත තවාදය විනාශ කලත් දෙමල ජාතිවාදය පරදවා  නැත. එය කරන පාටකුත් නැත. .මියෙම්වා රැකෙම්වා  කියා රට රැක්කේ එදා රජවරුය  අද එහෙව් අ ය නැත. ඉඟුරු දී මිරිස් ගන්නවාට වඩා  ප්‍රභා මැරූ  මහින්දට තව  තල්ලුවක් දී  හෝ ඒ වැඩ ය කර […]

Nalin de Silva The days when it was claimed that there was an ethnic problem in Sri Lanka are over. It appears that India is of the opinion that the problem in Sri Lanka is linguistic and not ethnic. There were others who said that there was a conspiracy (kumanthranaya) by the West and it […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The abduction and murder of a foreign journalist in Syria by the militants and later publicizing the crime through the online video have shocked the conscience of media world. Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) from the eastern part of India has also expressed shock at the incident and urged the media fraternity […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 “””. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]