LankaWeb Weekly Editorial 8th September 2014 In the seemingly never ending coercion of Sri Lanka by the United States and Britain over UN instigated calls for human rights violations during the three decade long internal armed insurrection by Tamil Tigers, only one thing seems to  stand out as logical. It is reminiscent of flogging a dead […]

Part II -H. L. D. Mahindapala An objective analysis of northern politics will reveal that internal peninsular forces were directed and manipulated by the ESJV’s not to liberate the Tamils en masse, irrespective of caste distinctions, but to retain their feudal, colonial and casteist powers. Caste in Jaffna was the most oppressive force that turned the […]

Part I  H.L. D. Mahindapala  Capturing the moral high ground in politics is a  necessary tactic to pose as superior and legitimate combatants who are blessed with the righteous power to exterminate the immoral enemies in the battlefield.  The chances are that those who occupy the high moral ground have already won half the battle. […]

Dr.Tilak Fernando 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 visited Sri Lanka, which turned out to be a vociferous incident. […]

By Charles.S.Perera, Sarath Silva the  retired Chief Justice puts forward convoluted arguments against a third term of office for the Prersident Mahinda Rajapakse to attract the attention of the Opposition  and  qualify  for  nomination by them  for the next Presidential election as  their common candidate. A third term  of office as the President of Sri […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva  Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva and Leader of the Sri Lanka delegation Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha addressing 27th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva today (8 September 2014), welcoming the new High Commissioner Zeid Bin Ra’ad Al-Hussein on his appointment, said, […]

Shenali D Waduge  Ban Ki Moon the UN Secretary General appointed an Advisory Panel to ADVISE HIM on the final phase of the war in Sri Lanka. That advisory panel was not an officially UN General Assembly or UN Security Council endorsed panel and that may explain why its report ended up being ‘leaked’ and […]

Senaka Weeraratna A new rooftop solar power system that has been installed at the new building complex situated at the entrance to the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya (Mitirigala Forest Hermitage) was declared open by Mr. Senaka Weeraratna, Hony. Secretary, German Dharmaduta Society on Sunday August 17, 2014 at the conclusion of a commemorative meeting held to mark the […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it; the other even more reasonable says that it is too painful […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම     යායුතු පාර හොඳට පෙනෙද්දී කැලෑවේ යන කෙනෙකුගේ ගනයට අතුරැලියේ රතන හාමුදුරුවන් ද ඇද වැටිය යුතුද? 1978 න් පසු ජේ ආර් හා ප්‍රේමදාස එකතුව ලංකාවට ඇටවූ මර උගුල් තුනක් නම් බහු භූත ව්‍යවස්තාව, විකාර චන්ද ක්‍රමය හා 13-ඒ කියන රට බෙදීමේ ඉනිමඟ යන තුන ය. රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ කල 2002 මහා ලෝක පාවාදීම 2009 […]

Janaka Perera Roopa Kavya (Photo Poetry) a collection of pictorial poems in Sinhala and English published in Lanka Viththi, the first Sinhala newspaper published in the United Kingdom, was launched at the Mahaweli Centre Auditorium, Colombo on Thursday September 4 amidst a large gathering including leading intellectuals, artists, authors, journalists  and cinema and TV personalities. […]

ALI SUKHANVER  The day is not very far away when you would not find any thing ‘Made in Japan’ in the Bangladeshi market. Sheikh Hasina’s government, under pressure from India has crafted a tax policy that increased the tax and surcharges levied against Japanese products particularly the Japanese cars while decreasing the tax for substandard […]

Chandrasena Pandithage අයිතීන් යනු කුමක්දැයි ඔබ දන්නේද? ඔබ කවරෙක්දැයි ඔබ දනනේද? ඇතතටම ඔබ කවුද? උපතේ සිටම යදම් වලින් බැදි වහලෙකි. ඔබ කිසිදා යදම් දුටුවේම නැත. ඔබට උපතක් ඇත. මරණයක්ද ඇත. ඔබ උපතවත් මරණයවත් තීරණය කරන්නා නොවේ. ඔබට උපතේ සිට මරණය දක්වා සිය කටයුතු කර ගැනීමට කාලයක් උරුම කරදී ඇත. ඒ කාලයේදී ඔබ කරන්නේ මොනවාද? විරෝධතා […]

 By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D.( Michigan State Univerity)  Economist  Dr Uswatte Aratchi,  has dubbed the current situation in Sri Lanka as a Warfare State.(The Island 19/8/2014)  Already the views held by Dr UswatteAratchi have been contested by Professor G.H.Peiris in The Island of 19/8.  Though I have been abroad since 1973, I lived in Sri Lanka […]

By Afshain Afzal Since decades, the Red Zone, which houses the Parliament House, Prime Minister House, President House, the Supreme Court building, Pak Secretariat, Foreign Embassies and other important installations, is restricted area and not open for general public. Smartly turned out Police personnel stop individuals and vehicles near the barriers to divert to other […]

Nalin de Silva  When one reads the opinions expressed by lawyers, experts in English and so called political analysts it is clear that everybody is rationalizing his/her (not many here have expressed their opinions) convictions. I am not anyone of the above by any stretch of imagination, though I contribute to newspapers on topics that […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ආර්ය චක්‍රවර්තීන් දෙමල නොවේ. කාලින්ගයෝය ආර්යයෝය.දෙමල අය  තම හ තුරන් වූ  ආර්ය යන්ගේනම ගන්නේ නැත .  ඊල  යනු සිංහල යන්නය. ඊල හා සිංහල යනු  එකම අර්ථය දෙන බව ”’පත්තුප්පට්ටු  වීර සොලියම්”   පොතෙන් ද පෙනේ.””” සින්හලම් එන්රැදු ඊල නාට්ටෙය්   යනු”’ සිංහල නම් ඊල දේශයය් ”  යනුවෙන්  නන්නුල් දෙමල වියරණය අනුව අර්ථ දක්වා ඇත.   ජටාවර්මන් […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න 1832 කොල්බ්රූක් කොමිසමේ ප්‍රශ්නවලට කලෙච්ටර් වරයා දුන් පිළිතුරු මෙසේය. 1   දිවයිනේ අනිකුත් ප්‍රදේශවලට අදාලවුවද කොමසාරිස් වරුන්ගේ ඉඩම් පිලිබඳ ප්‍රශ්නය යාපනය දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ඉඩම්වලට ගොවීන්ට  ද රාජ්‍ය ආදායමටද  බලපාන්නේ නැත. 2.යාපනයේ ධාන්‍ය හා ආහාර වගා වැදගත් නොවේ. ප්‍රධාන වගාව දුම්කොලය. වෙළඳ බදු සහ අපනයන තීරුබදු ප්‍රධාන ආදායම් මාර්ග වේ. 3. සංගණනයක් සිදුකලනොහක. ස්ථිර පදිංචියක් නැති […]

Courtesy communist-party.org.uk Gennady Zyuganov is Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which from the first days of the crisis in the Ukraine, has been organising political and material solidarity to the people of the east of the Ukraine. Read his in depth analysis of the crisis and its […]

MEDIA RELEASE – SEPTEMBER 5TH 2014 – The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka is very concerned about news reports that Al-Qaeda is setting up its South Asia front. Earlier, the violent terrorist group IS announced that it is targeting the Indian sub-continent. We have witnessed the terror and destruction that have been caused to our […]

By A. Abdul Aziz.  According to the media report, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, lamented the pitiful and sorry-state” of much of the Muslim countries.  Speaking recently at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in London, Ahmad highlighted the examples of war-torn Syria and of Pakistan, where […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න    මෙහි සදහන් වන්නේ 1992 දී මවිසින් ලියා පල කල පොතක සාරන්ශයකි. මගේ ලිපියට සටහන් තැබූ අයගේ ප්‍රයෝජනය සඳහාය.  යක්ෂ හා  නාග ගෝත්‍රිකයන් තමන් යයද  වසර 3000 කට  වැඩි ඉතිහාසයක් තමන්ට  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ තිබෙයයදා  මේ රටේ මුල් පදිංචි කාරයන් තමන් යයද කියමුන් ව්‍යාජ ඉතිහාසයක්  ලියා තම මිනීමරු ක්‍රියාදාමය  යුක්ති යුක්ත කර ගැනීමට  දෙමලු […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Journalist fraternity of Assam in northeast India continues demonstrating their angers against the State government for arresting a television journalist with the suspect of ‘maintaining unlawful relationship’ with banned armed outfits. The media persons under various forums in Assam also urged the police to release Jaikhlong Brahma, a Kokrajhar based journalist […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka showed how to win a War on Terror. Sri Lanka became the first and only country in the world to do so. Sri Lanka has also showed how to resettle, reconstruct demine and rehabilitate and even reintegrate former armed cadres another first of its kind. Sri Lanka offered a Presidential […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala  Our political pundits, black-coated coconut-crackos at Hulftsdorp, NGOs, academics, media commentators and frustrated politicos hanging around  in the opposition benches for decades, waiting to overthrow elected governments, have been announcing the death of Lady Democracy in Sri Lanka so many times and written so many obituary notices that the living can […]

Pathfinder Economic Flash The Prize on Offer. The Prime Minister Abe’s visit to Sri Lanka offers the chance to reflect upon the fact that Japan has been a steadfast and generous partner throughout Sri Lanka’s post-independence era. At the San Francisco conference Sri Lanka drew upon Lord Buddha’s teachings to plead for the magnanimous treatment […]

By Nalin de Silva Courtesy Island  The TNA leaders have met the Indian Prime Minister in Delhi and the news media quoting the delegates who went to India claimed that India wants the Sri Lankan government to implement the 13th Amendment. Whether Indian leaders have made this statement, we do not know as there is […]

(INTERACTION WITH THE GOD’S MEN IN CLOTH – PART- II Dr.Tilak Fernando  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 visited […]

SL Economy expanding at rapid rate-Courtesy The Daily News Sri Lanka’s Gross National Income (GNI) outpaced that of all other South Asian developing countries, NASDAQ the American stock exchange’s publication stated in an article. Today, Sri Lanka’s economy is expanding at a rapid rate. The textile industry is booming as a result of relatively cheap […]

By Madura Ranwala  Courtesy Island Retired army Sergeant (73) who set himself on fire in front of the Kollupitiya police station on Tuesday (September 02) died at the National Hospital, Colombo in the night. The police identified the victim as Thellambura Vithanage Piyasena of No. 164/2, Pannipitiya Road, Halagoda. The postmortem examination was to be […]