By Janaka Alahapperuma President Mahinda Rajapaksa has vested in the public the modernized ‘Old Dutch Hospital’ which is a world heritage site, as a sophisticated shopping complex. The landmark Dutch Hospital building within the Galle Fort, refurbished as an exclusive modern shopping complex by the Government. The President graced the opening ceremony as the Chief […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.  There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of […]

Sudath Gnasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 22.8. 2014.  This is a latest news item reported in the Colombo Gazette of 12th Sept 2014  UK holds talks with TNA in Batticaloa Sept 12 (CG) British Deputy High Commissioner Laura Davies had talks with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in Batticaloa today, the TNA said. The […]

By Afshain Afzal Much ahead of commencement of referendum campaigns for the independence of Scotland, US President Barack Hussain Obama along with group of European Union leaders made it very clear that they wanted the United Kingdom (UK) to stay together. Aftermath referendum, in a statement issued at Brussels, the European Commission said the Scottish […]

Shenali D Waduge Tamil Diaspora’s bid to mislead us will not succeed’ said S P Thamilselvan’s wife, Shashirekha in 2011. The statement is self-revealing and conclusively states that the Tamil Diaspora has been misleading the Tamil people. It also means the Tamil Diaspora has been misleading the Tamil people. The interview itself is noteworthy to […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: It was a memorial meeting with  intense emotion about an extremely talented cinematographer, who died young after facing an accident a decade back. Mrinal Kanti Das, who continues to be the first of many achievers from northeast India including the national award for best cinematography, met with the fatal road accident […]

Lakshmi A. Perera July 28, 2012, The Founder of the Mallika Nivasa Samithiya Mrs. Mallika Hewavitharne the mother of Anagarika Dharmapala, founder of the Mallika Niwasa Samithiya, daughter of Muhandiram Andiris Perera Dharma Gunawardena. It was one of the foremost Women’s Buddhist Societies in colonial Ceylon, in an age when rigid sectarianism of class, caste […]

 Shenali D Waduge The UN Human Rights Council sessions are in progress. The US, the world’s champion of human rights, rule of law and the living example of righteousness has through its delegation noted with concern the failure by the international community to act in Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, Syria and Sri Lanka. Leaving aside the […]

Shenali D Waduge There is a saying that what is not good for the goose cannot be good for the gander. In other words, why are all those promoting genetically modified foods for the rest of the world not eating GMOs but eating organic? There is a list of politicians that support and promote GE […]

Shenali D Waduge The head of the Catholic Church and head of the sovereign nation known as Vatican City is to arrive in Sri Lanka in January 2015. It will be the 2nd visit of a Pope to a majority Buddhist nation wherein Catholics comprise just over 1million of a 20million population of which 14million […]

Dr.Tilak Fernando (Interaction With The God’s Men Of The Cloth – Part IV) At the height of the LTTE terrorism in Sri Lanka, a delegation from the Council of Churches in the UK visited home on a peace promoting exercise. Upon their return, Sinhala expatriates in London had an interaction meeting with the team that […]

Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Monthly Public Lecture “The Urban Landscape: Should We Ape the West?” by Mr. Ashley de Vos, Dip. (Arch.) FIA (SL) on Monday 29th September 2014 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07  ALL ARE WELCOME Ashley de Vos is a Fellow of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, and […]

ALI SUKHANVER To the handful unlucky Pakistanis who dream of a very cordial rather brotherly relationship with India, the news of arrest of Arun Selvarajan, a Lankan national, would not be very much pleasing. The Indian media says this Lankan national is a spy working for Pakistan. Selvarajan was carrying two passports when he was […]

Shenali D Waduge In September 2009 Channel 4 claimed we are unable to vouch for the independence of her testimony’ but there was no disclaimer and Vany Kumar was the star witness for C4’s ‘Killing Fields’ film. We soon discovered she was no witness but a member of the LTTE. Another lie caught red-handed. The […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC Sri Lanka’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded by 7.8 percent in the second quarter of 2014 compared to same period last year, Department of Census and Statistics said in its Quarterly Estimates of Gross Domestic Product report released Monday. The total economic output in Sri Lanka, measured by the GDP […]

 Shenali D Waduge September 17th marks the 150th birth anniversary of a great son of Sri Lanka. The name of Anagarika Dharmpala should not just be etched in stone and commemorated ceremoniously annually. The people must be aware of all that he stood for and all that he promoted. How many of today’s youth or […]

Pathfinder Economic Flash Akin to figures painted on a wall Friends do not dodge at all May he be in joy or grief Hedge of genuine friends no brief (Salalihini Sandeshaya- Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thero) Sri Lanka has utilized its newly found freedom from 30 years of terrorism and bloodshed for the promotion of several […]

Shenali D Waduge  We dont know who they are but the ‘Made in US/UK’ signs are hard to miss. ISIS are the born again” of the Al Qaeda. The doubt is intensified because the enemies of the ISIS happen to be the very enemies of the West but to downplay that a few Western heads […]

Shenali D Waduge LTTE or its fund raisers and supporters overseas and at home cannot argue collateral damage. The 15th June 2006 massacre was planned, well thought out, cadres designated for roles, type of murder to be committed decided, necessary arms and equipment made ready, the LTTE leader going through all stages of the planned […]

Shenali D Waduge  Everyone will agree that we cannot do without email. How many of us know who invented it. Yet, even when the inventor, an Indian Hindu was honored recently by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi why did the Christian press keep a lid on the news. We must wonder if this was an […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග​  අනගාරික ධර්මපාලතුමාගේ ජීවිතය කැපවන්නේ සමාජය යහපත් කිරීමේ අරමුණින් කරන ලද අරගල නිසාය​.  එසේම මේ අරගල හිංසනයෙන් සහ බලහත්කාරයන් තොර වීමත්  අරගලය ස්වාර්ථය සඳහා යොදා නොගැනීමේ සාධකය නිසාත් කැපී පෙනෙයි.    ධර්මපාලතුමා සමාජ අසධාරනයන් අත් විඳින්නේ පාසල් කාලයේදීමය​. වෙසක් දිනයේදී පාසල් නොගොස් ආගමික වතාවත් වල යෙදීම නිසා ඔහුව සාන්ත තෝමස් විද්‍යාලයෙන් නෙරපා […]

Shenali D Waduge  There is a very well planned concerted effort, well funded and with the same think tanks involved compiling report using ‘unknown’ witnesses or witnesses who have ‘escaped’ and awaiting asylum or refugee status to depict the notion that Sri Lanka needs to be divided and the North liberated. The reports are giveaways […]

Shenali D Waduge There are plenty of laws and conventions on how wars are to be fought, but those laws were for wars that did not have cowards manipulating them. Today’s wars are all proxy wars as state armies fight asymmetrical wars where from some corner or corners of the world, groups of people with […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග​  වනයේ සැරිසරන ධවල ඇතෙකු පිලිබඳ ප්රිලාපය දඩයක්කාරයාගේ කනටද වැටුනු නමුත් ඔහු එය මායිමකටවත් ගත්තේ නැත. දඩයක්කාරයා වනයේ සෑම අස්සක් මුල්ලක් නෑර කරක් ගසා තිබේ. අලින් සිටින ගල්තලායාය , බෙරලියවැව ආදී පෙදෙස් ඔහු හොඳින් දනියි. වනයේ සිටින අලි ඇතුන් පවා ඔහු දන්නේය. අලි රංචුවේ නායකයා සද්ධන්ත ගෝමර ඇතෙකි. කන් කබරයා තනිව වනයේ […]

Shenali D Waduge Anna Neistat Senior Research of the Human Rights Watch was interviewed by Steve Paikin through the tv program ‘The Agenda with Steve Paikin” in 2009. The allegations by Anna Neistat re-establishes and reiterates as well as reconfirms of LTTE war crimes in forcibly keeping civilians without allowing them to escape to safety, […]

By Afshain Afzal The cease fire violations along Line of Control (LoC) on Jammu and Kashmir state as well working boundary between Indian and Pakistan led to renewed tension. During the weekly talks on telephone, Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan’s agreed on 26 August 2014, to reduce tension. They also […]

Dr Hector Perera        London I was attending Harischandra Vidyalaya at Temple road Negombo then I had a chance to sit for an entrance exam at Kandy Dharmaraja College. I went there with a helper then I met the headmaster Mr Wimalachandra of the junior school when I was near the playground. He spoke to me […]

Shenali D Waduge  Ever since winning the Northern Provincial elections in 2013, the TNA and its Chief Minister has been doing nothing but complain. Complaining, crying to foreign nations and leaders, going on sponsored visits round the globe, gallivanting to India to complain and now asking Tamil youth to act as spies is all that […]

 ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ඉතිහාසය  ඉගැන්වීම නතර කල එකම රට  මේ ලංකාව විය හැක  . අනිවාර්යයෙන්  ම සාම පුරවැසියෙකුටම  ඉගැන්විය යුතු වූ ඉතිහාසය නුගැ න්වීම නිසා  2009 වනතුරුත්  සිංහලයට තම රට බේරාගැනීමට ඉදිරිපත් වීමට තරම් කොන්දක් නැතිවිය  සීයට හත අටක ප්‍රමාණයකට බියවී  75% ක් සිටි එකම කාලකන්නි රට ලංකාව විය 9% පමණ දැන් සිටින ලංකාවේ මුස්ලිම් වරු  […]

Shenali D Waduge  The ITAK has a new leader. He is Mavai Senathirajah. It is a perfect time to bring questions out into the open and seek answers to satisfy our doubts. Top on that list is the question is the ITAK constitution Federal or Confederal? We will not accept claims of being federal while […]