By A.A.M.NIZAM (Former Sri Lanka Freedom Party Vice President–Matara Electorate Central Committee)  In the first part of this article readers were enlightened the carnage being carried out by the 100 days Sirisena’s” brothers mafia robbing and exercising a monopoly of natural resources , causing hardships and hazards to the people of the North Central Province. […]

by Dr D.Chandraratna In 44 BC The Roman General and Director Julius Caesar was murdered in broad daylight in the theatre of Pompey by assassins led by Junius Brutus, Caesar’s best friend. Hence the famous words, Et tu Brute, Even you Brute said Caesar before he died. Only part of this tale is applicable because […]

Rajanram B  Dear Chandrika Kumaratunga, Please remember that there are plenty of people who have got nice and healthy ideas for their community. They are good people. We need them. But not every one can achieve the good ideas and sustain them for long. This is very hard job. you need to have divine blessing, […]

P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne The TNA is for the division of the country. SLMC is asking for a separate Administrative District for Muslims, in another words a separate state for them. So the goals of the TNA and the SLMC  are the same. Then, this week the media reported that Sirisena had a meeting with  ‘Tiger Bishop’ […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  සිරිසේන හවුල දිනුවොත්  සම්බන්දන්  ඊලාම් ජනපති වෙන බව  ටක්කෙටම කියන්නේ   නල්ලය්යා තම්බිරායන්  නම් දෙමල ජාතිකයෙකි   ඔහු  ඒ ගැන සතුටු නැත. එනිසා අනෙකුත් යට ඔහු අනතුරු අන්ගවය්  මේ අනතුරු ඇඟවීම විශේෂයෙන් සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් විසින්  සැලකිල්ලට ගතයුතුය  අවලම්   ත්‍රස්තයින්ට උඩගෙඩි දුන් චන්ද්‍රිකාත් කොටි සමග හොර ගිවිසුම් ගසා උන් බලවත් කල රනිලුත්  බලයට ගෙන එන්නට  […]

ධර්මසිරි  සෙනෙවිරත්න චන්ද්‍රිකා  රනිල්  මයිත්‍රී  දෙමල ජාති වාදීන්     සමග   අත්සන්  කල ගිවිසුමක    පිටපතක්   තිස්ස විසින්  එලියට   දැම්මේය    උතුරේ  හමුදාව  අඩකින්  අඩුකර  ආරක්ෂක    කලාප  වසා  ඒ ඉඩම් දෙමළුන් ට ආපසු දීමට  ගිවිසුමේ  එකගත්වයක් ඇත  මයිත්ත්රී ලා    මේ   ගැන  කියන්නේ ලිපියේ  අත්සන් තමන්ගේ නොවන  බවය . අන්තර් ගතය  ගැන  නිහඬය.  අපට  අවශ්‍ය  මේ   කරුණු ගැන ඔවුන්ගේ   අදහස්ය. […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island In the modern society, education is meaningless without a good knowledge of at least one useful world language in addition to one’s mother tongue. For the majority of Sri Lankans, this means an indispensable knowledge of  Sinhala or Tamil plus English. (The government’s praiseworthy target of a trilingual Sri […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග   රෝහණ විජේවීර නිදහස් කර ගැනීම සඳහා පියතිලකගේ නායකත්වයෙන් 500ක පිරිසක් යාපන බන්ධනාගාරයට එවන ලෙස ලාල් සෝමරසිරි අත යැවූ පණිවඩය පිළිබඳව විවිධ මත ඇතත් බර්ටි රංජිත්ගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යාපනය සිර ගෙදරට එල්ල කළ ප‍්‍රහාරය පිලිබඳව විස්තර ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා මෙම ප‍්‍රහාරයට සම්බන්ධ වූ පුද්ගලයන් සොයා ගැනීමට මම උත්සුක වූයෙමි. එම ප‍්‍රහාරයෙන් වසර […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  බටහිර විද්‍යාව පට්ටපල් බොරුවක් යය්   නලින් කියය්  එසේ කියන්නේ බුදු දහමේ පරම සත්‍යය අනුවය්  සම්මුතියේ ඇති දේවල් එසේ ” ඇති”’ බව  .නලින් පිලිගනිය්  සම්මුතිය අනුව  තමන් ඉන්නා   බව නලින් නලින් දනිය්  දන්නා නිසා තමය් රට වෙනුවෙන්  කියන්නේ  පවුල් දිවි ගෙවන්නේ දරුවන් හදන්නේ  සම්මුතියේ ”’මම ”හිටියත්  පරම සත්‍යයේ මම නැත. බටහිර එක රේඛීය චින්තනයේ” […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Karl Marx must have instinctively anticipated characters like Ranil Wickremesinghe and Chandrika Bandaranaike to appear from time to time when he wrote that history repeat itself, first as a tragedy then as a comedy. If Don Juan Dharmapala and Dona Catherina of the Portuguese period were tragic figures their successors, Ranil […]

By A.A.M.NIZAM (Former Sri Lanka Freedom Party Vice President–Matara Electorate Central Committee)  The so-called common candidate, the ungrateful 100 days Sirisena” nourished by the Tiger terrorist diaspora and the anti Sri Lankan neo-colonialist western elements, and who has undertaken a contract jointly orchestrated by the prat-fallen politically discarded and revengeful old hag Chandrika Kumaratunge, the […]

Nimal Rajakaruna Melbourne Australia   From my yesterday’s article I pointed out how Dr Nalin De Silva’s comments on Champika Ranawaka and Ven Athureliye Rathana as pseudo nationalists have been proven true according to their current behaviours. Today I saw a news item in the Daily Mirror with the heading ‘Unity Govt. will look into alleged agreement between […]

P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne The TNA, yesterday had pledged support to Sirisena and asked the Tamils to vote for him. Obviously, they had taken instructions for a regime change from the west and the Tamil diaspora. During the 2010 Presidential elections the TNA supported Sarath Fonseka, after accusing him of Human Rights abuses and war crimes . […]

S. Akurugoda  Secret Pacts are not new to Sri Lanka politics, especially during elections .  Claims of having secret Pacts or secret understanding overrides those of open Pacts.  The well known Bandaranaike – Chelvanayakam Pact, JR – Rajiv Pact, Ranil – Prabhakaran Pact  were not considered as secret Pacts, since the contents were known to […]

 ධර්මසිරි  සෙනෙවිරත්න මහින්ද  ගෙන්  කිසිවක්  ලබාගන්න  අපට බැරිවුනා . ඒ හින්ද මයිත්රීට   දෙනවා . එයා විශ්වාස  කරන්න — පුළුවන් ———- ආනන්ද  සංගරී  කියය් . හකීම් ගේ  සහයත්  මයිත්රීට .එයාටත්  ඉල්ලන දේවල් මහින්ද දෙන්නේ  නැතිලු . මයිත්ත්රී  එක්ක  ගැසූ ගිවිසුම   සාර්ථක බව තවත් දෙමල  නායකයෙක්  කියය් . සිංහලබෞද්ධ විරෝධී සුලුවාර්ගිකයන්  මෙසේ  මහින්දගෙන්  ඉවත්   වී මයිත්‍රී පසුපස […]

Shenali D Waduge The US and Western Christian Nations have made clear their foreign policy objectives in Asia. The focus of Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic faith and the State of Vatican is also Asia. Asia is seen as having the greatest potential for the expansion of Catholicism. When the Church declares the […]

Ranjit Wickremeratne I would like to wish all Sri Lankans irrespective of their color or race a very good “HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015” A YEAR OF HEALTH & HAPPINESS A YEAR OF WEALTH & WISDOM A YEAR OF PEACE & PROSPERITY A YEAR OF GLEE & GLOW A YEAR OF LOVE & LAUGHTER To make […]

Hilmy Ahamed Pelawatte Battaramulla 30th December 2014 The Editor Ceylon Today No 101, Rosmead Place, Colombo 7 00100 Dear Sir/Madam I refer to your newspaper photograph and report in the Ceylon Today, 2014-12-30, of Hon. Faizer Musthapha meeting Maithripala Sirisena ten days ago. It also claims that an owner of a television station accompanied Hon. Musthapha to […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Paths, roads,, highways are everlasting  routes to the future. They connect people and bring them together for good or for bad. Generations will use them for their convenience. They will use the established routes to leave the past and explore and build new futures. Roads become the avenues to explore their […]

By Charles. S.Perera This is the Christmas Season. One cannot therefore while celebrating the birth of Jesus who was born  to liberate the people of their sins and bring happiness to the world, forget at the same time Judas Iscariot. Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples of  Jesus. He was a trusted friend […]

Shenali D Waduge All the talk on ‘inclusiveness’ ‘peaceful co-existence’ ‘reconciliation’ all need to be questioned given the discussions that reveal the demands being made by minority ethno-political parties in support for Presidential candidates. These ethno-political parties are demanding exclusive separate ethnic-districts for their people while having the right to live and own land throughout […]

Ganapathy Moorthy I would like to write it in first person as I want to express my views and feelings just as I happened to grasp them.  Therefore, whoever read it, agree or disagree with it, but I just want them to think about what I said before they make any conclusion. As a Sri […]

By Don Wijewardana Recent domestic and global developments clearly indicate LTTE-related issues are re-emerging as major influences impacting on Sri Lanka’s security and stability.  But the opposition Common candidate Maithripala Sirisena’s manifesto does not address any of the related issues of reconciliation, terrorism, or separation.  When asked, he has said his main focus is the […]

Nimal Rajakaruna Melbourne Australia I am one who is reluctant to write on Sri Lankan politics but as someone who had actively supported Sihala Urumaya and then Jathika Hela Urumaya especially during war times and when Sri Lanka was in the verge of being divided in to pieces, thought of highlighting some facts exposed during the last […]

– நடேசன் எதிர்வரும் ஜனாதிபதித் தேர்தலில் இலங்கையில் வாழும் தமிழர்கள் மிகவும் கவனமாக சிந்தித்து வாக்களிக்கவேண்டும் என்ற கட்டாயத்திற்குத் தள்ளப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்கள். இவர்களது வாக்குகள் சமூகத்தின் – நாட்டின் எதிர்காலத்தை திர்மானிப்பது மட்டுமல்ல தனிமனிதர்களின் எதிர்காலத்தையும் வரையறுப்பது. இலங்கைவாழ் தமிழர்களின் தவறுகளை சுட்டிக்காட்டுவதற்கு இது தருணமல்ல என்றாலும்; கடந்தகாலத்தை இலகுவில் கடந்து போக முடியாது. மறந்துவிடவும் முடியாது. 77இல் கொழும்புத் தமிழர்கள் மலையகத்தமிழர்கள் நூறு வீதமாக ஐக்கிய தேசியகட்சிக்கு வாக்களித்தார்கள் அதேவேளையில் வடகிழக்கில் தமிழர்கள் ஈழக்கோரிக்கையை ஆதரித்து பிரிவினை […]

By mahinda Assume if in a worst scenario my3 elected even with thin majority, the country being pushed in to a total chaos is unavoidable ending up with a total destruction and long standing quagmire to the entire country and public there onwards. First there will be conflict situations among themselves who will be the […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග විල්සන්ට වෘත්තියක් නැත. එහෙත් ඔහුට රැුකියාවක් තිබේ. ඔහු අනියම් මුරකරුවෙකි. රුකියාව ස්ථිර රැුකියාවක් නොවුවද දැන් වසර ගණනාවක් පුරා ඔහු රැුකියාවට යයි. ඔහුට දැන් එය ස්ථිර රැුකියාවක් බඳුය. එම නිසා රැුකියාව ස්ථිර කර ගැනීමට ආයාචනා, උද්ඝෝෂණ, මාරාන්තික උපවාස යනාදිය කිසිවක් කිරීම සඳහා ඔහු යොමු නොවීය. විල්සන්ගේ බිරිඳ පමණක් ඉඳහිට ”නරකද රස්සාව ස්ථිර […]

Sarojini Dutt Hardly had the government announced the forthcoming Presidential Election when the Evil twins, Horrible and Terrible, emerging from the cracks, met up with some of the international lowlifes they had consorted with during Sri Lanka’s terrorist conflict. Eric Solheim in his somewhat sleazy autobiography makes reference to another dubious Norwegian Arne Fjortoft, as […]

  Ven. Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, Ven. Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, the General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organization has accused former Justice Minister and Sri Lanka Muslin Congress (SLMC) Leader Rauff Hakeem of being a political prostitute” who stood up against the government at all the Presidential elections. Gnanasara Thera said that Rauff […]

By Matt Peppe | June 30, 2014 In this April 1, 2014, photo, a book street vendor passes the time on her smart phone as she waits for customers in Havana, Cuba. (AP/Ramon Espinosa) News from the AP about the U.S. government’s secret project to create a Cuban Twitter or ZunZuneo,” to be used for disseminating propaganda […]