Dr. Tilak Fernando (Continuation from 104) With bags full of good, bad, productive actions and deeds during his term as the caretaker, Ranasinghe managed to complete his full term as a hard working and a dedicated employee at the Sri Lanka High Commission. When the late General Sepala Attygalle relinquished his duties as the High […]

by Bob Isaacson I am the President and co-founder of Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA), a non-profit organization, originating in San Diego, California, USA.  We have over 760 members worldwide in 40 countries.  Our mission is to give meaning to the Buddha’s teachings by being the voice for animals in Buddhist communities throughout the world.  The […]

Shenali D Waduge  A country is governed by a government. That government is chosen by the people. People chose the representatives based on various factors and that generally rotates from personal advantage to considering the national needs and in particular the national security dimension. Unlike other developing nations, Sri Lanka’s literacy being over 90% the […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම සිවුරු පොරවා ගත් කළුසුද්දෝ     විමල් වීරවංශ විසින් සංවිධානය කල ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුවට ආරාධනය කර සිටි කිරම විමලජෝති නාහිමියන් කළු සුද්දා කියන්නේ කවුද යන්න ගැන අදහසක් ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබේ (මොන චේතනාවෙන් ඔහු කිරම හාමුදුරුවන්ට ආරාධනා කලාදැයි සිතාගැනීම අපහසුය). මෙය මා දුටුවේ විමල් වීරවංශගේ යයි කියන ලංකාසීනිව්ස් නම් වෙබ් අඩවියේ නොවැම්බර් 18 දාය. උන්වහන්සේ […]

Dilrook Kannangara The circumstances of JHU’s past conduct must be considered before passing judgement. Had the JHU selected the easy path in 2004, 2005 and 2006, things would have turned much worse for the nation. It is also worthwhile to question why ruling coalition MPs from SLMC, CWC, EPDP and UNP don’t resign as JHU […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මහින්ද  දිනේෂ්  චම්පික    ෆොන්සේකා  ආදී සේරම නායක  පොලිටික්කෝ දහතුන   ගැන කතාව මගහරිති. ෆොන්සේකා  යුධ භටයෙක් ලෙස කිව්වේ රට සිංහල රටක් බවය.  අනෙක් අය  බලයට ඒමට පෙර  කිව්වේ 13 අහෝසි කලයුතු බවය.   දැන්  මේ සේරම ගලේ පහැ රූ  බළලුන්  මෙන්අසූචි ගොඩ වටේ හොරහින්බලමින්  වටේ  කැ  රකෙති.   හිතේ එකක් තියාගෙන අනෙකක්ම කියති  මාදුළුවාවේ සෝභිත හිමි […]

Lakshman Keerthisinghe ,LLB, LLM.MPhil, Attorney-at-Law-Courtesy The Daily News  Not that I loved Caesar less but I loved Rome more -William Shakespeare-Julius Caesar-Homeland In recent times, especially after the unanimous determination of the Supreme Court enabling President Mahinda Rajapaksa to contest for a third term in office, there has been a great deal of discussion in […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE With fewer  members in Parliament, the JHU’s decision to leave the government  will not cause major political drama.   However, the JHU’s constant inability to work in a coalition goverment in  a constructive manner was visible from the very early stages. Former Minister Patali Ranawaka was appointed as  the Minister of […]

Dilrook Kannangara There is a delicate difference between the desirability of executive presidency (EP) and clipping the EP powers that are not used for the betterment of the country. Sri Lanka had five (5) executive presidents and four (4) serious aspirants since the forcible enactment of 13A. None of them tried to remove 13A. In […]

Dhammasiri Ranwalage   Analysis of  the Current Situation Election mania has hit the country yet again barely after elapse of two months since provincial council elections and just a year after provincial council election in the Northern Province to show off to CHOGM participants. Even though the elections in the north created more problems and gave more […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Mahnuwara Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya In this essay I refer to all those people who lived and their descendants presently living within the territory known as the Kandyan Kingdom at the time of signing the Kandyan Convention in 1815. This area at present roughly constitutes about 1/3 of the territory of the […]

Shenali D Waduge   The new head of the UN Human Rights Council deems fit to insult a democratically elected UN Member country for bringing to the attention of the Human Rights world body the arrest of an unrehabilitated LTTE cadre collecting blank forms with signatures and handing them to a Tamil National Alliance member […]

By Noor Nizam, Peace and Political Activist and Political Communication Researcher. President Mahinda Rajapaksa demanded on Sunday, November 16th, 2014 that the Norwegian government must probe the funding of the LTTE during the island’s three-decade civil war, alleging that Norway financed the ethnic Tamil militant group while addressing a political gathering in the northwestern town […]

By A. Abdul Aziz.  According to our Press Department U.K., on 8 November 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at the 11th National Peace Symposium hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK. During his address, His Holiness categorically condemned […]

By Nalin de Silva Sri Lanka is not an Arab country and the west finds it difficult to impose its will on us. The western policy with respect to Asia, Africa and South America can be partially summarized in one sentence knowing very well that summaries do not often convey the meaning of the original. […]

By Dr. Ed Tick  In contrast to our modern situation, traditional and indigenous peoples had extensive spiritually and communally based warrior medicine, practices and lineages. They lived immersed in and part of nature and its processes, conceived of themselves not as independent agents but as members of interdependent communities, and stood in wonder before a […]

Shenali Waduge – LTTE CIVILIAN BRIGADE – Do we call them ‘Civilians’ or ‘Combatants’? They are not in LTTE uniforms. They are Tamils but not LTTE They are in civilian attire and they are civilians. They are holding weapons and have undergone weapons training by LTTE too. LTTE has held Graduation Ceremonies for these LTTE […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම හාමුදුරුවරුන්ට දහතුන්වන සංශොධනය අමතකවීම   රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහට හා ජනාධිපති රාජපක්‍ෂට 13-ඒ අමතකවීම පුදුමයට කරුණක් නොවේ. ඊට හේතුව මේ දෙන්නාම දැන් කාර්ඩිනල් ගේ න්‍යාය පත්‍රය අනුව යන බහු ජාතික හා සර්‍වාගමික බට්ටන් දෙන්නෙක් නිසාය. මීට අමතරව පල්ලි හා මුස්ලිම් නිකාය වලට අයත් සුළු පිරිසක්ද සිටී. එහෙත් යමෙතුට අදහා ගත නොහැක්කේ අද වනවිට බොදු බල […]

ආචාර්ය චන්දන ජයලත් ජන සමාජයක යහ පැවැත්ම උදෙසා හඳුනා ගත් හිඩැසක් පිරවීම වෙනුවෙන් කැපවන්නා යුග පුරුෂයෙක් වන්නේය. එය සමාජ මෙහෙවරක් ලෙස අපි දකිමු. එහෙත් යුග පුරුෂයින් බිහිවන්නේ කලාතූරකිිනි. නවසිය අසූව වන විට මමත් සාමාන්‍ය පෙළට සූදානම් වන ශිෂ්‍යයෙක් මි. උදෑසන 7.20 ට පමණ මරදාන සිට පොල්ගහවෙල දක්වා ධාවනය වන මන්දගාමී දුම්රියෙන් මීරිගමට එන ශිෂ්‍යයින් අතර […]

By Rohana R. Wasala At the time of Don David Hewavitharne (Anagarika Dharmapala)’s birth 150 years ago, there were no Buddhist places of worship in Colombo. Devout Buddhists had to go to the Kelaniya Viharaya 10 miles north of the city on full-moon poya days for their religious observances; the only other viharaya was at Ratmalana, […]

External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris met the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations yesterday and conveyed to him the government’s extreme discontent regarding the unprofessional manner in which the investigation on Sri Lanka is being conducted by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The minister’s protest to the UN […]

Courtesy: Buddhist Channel Free Press Journal Bureau, Nov 15, 2014 Kolkata, India — An exhibition of priceless Indian Buddhist Art that the Indian Museum in Kolkata has put together for display all over Asia is a reminder that Buddhism is becoming the new Communism – the ideology through which governments seek to make friends and […]

Shenali D Waduge In a documentary The World According to Dick Cheney,” Dick Cheney then Vice-President of the USA admits that it was he and not President Bush who ordered the shooting down of the plane that fell into a field in Pennsylvania in September 2001. He also admits that he falsely linked Iraq with […]

Hot News from Sri Lanka COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president has accused Norway of covertly financing the island’s separatist Tamil Tigers during peace talks ahead of a military campaign that crushed the rebels in 2009. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa demanded that the Norwegian government must probe the funding of the LTTE during the island’s three-decade civil […]

Shenali D Waduge UNHRC investigation on Sri Lanka : An organized fraudulent submission process favours Tamils and not Sinhalese or Muslim victims? Sri Lanka is accused by the UNHRC head himself of sabotaging an ‘impartial’ investigation. Why…because Sri Lanka revealed the arrest of a LTTE un-rehabilitated cadre who had in his possession 25 blank forms […]

සිද්ධස්ථාන යැයි නම් ලත් දේවල් දැකීම පිණිස ලක්දිව සැම පළාත් වලින් සමුහයා අවරුදු පතා අනුරාධපුරයට පැමිණෙයි. වර්ෂයකට වරක් රැස්වී දින ස්වල්පයක් නැවතී යන සමුහයාගේ සංඛ්‍යාව විසි දහසක් පමණ යැයි මම කල්පනා කරමි. ප්‍රධාන උත්සවය පවත්වන වේලෙහි භුමිය මනුෂ්‍යන් ගෙන් පිරී  පවතියි. මෑත වනතුරු ආණ්ඩුවේ කාසි තබන යකඩ පෙට්ටිය ස්වදේශී මුරකරුවන් බාරේ පැවති නමුත් එය මිනිස්සු […]

Dr Hector Perera            London Prof Graham Mac Gregor, of the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London, and chairman of Action on Sugar, said: It is a complete scandal that these drinks are marketed to children and parents as if they are healthy. This has to stop. We need to stop Britain’s childhood obesity epidemic […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න 13අ සහ පළාත් සභා  නම් වසවර්තිමාරයා පරාජය කිරීම පසෙක තබා අ නම් මනම් දොඩමින් කල් මරණ සිංහල බෞධයන්ට යන එන මන් නැතිවෙනු ඇත.රතන හාමුදුරුවොත් අතන මෙතනය. හෙළ උරුමය,  ම එපේ සහ ජාතික වාදී සංවිධාන  කතා කරන්නේ  මරු පරද වීම ගැන  කතා නැත.මාදුළුවාවේ හිමිට අවශ්‍ය මාරු පරද වීමට නොව  ” විරු” පැරදවීමට පමණි.  ගුණදාස […]

Shenali D Waduge The buzzword is reconciliation. It enters into every report, every public speech, every public statement and every communication. Yet, in real terms what does it mean and to whom should it apply? If there is any confusion it is primarily because people are finding it hard to differentiate Tamils from Tigers Terrorists. […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 14 November 2014 High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein UN Human Rights Council Palais Wilson, 52 rue des Paquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland. Dear Mr. High Commissioner Zeid: Five days ago I received  a nine page letter titled: Sri […]