H.L.D. Mahindapala In the history of coalitions formed in the post-independent era the latest one signed at Vihara Maha Devi Park on Monday is unique not for any distinguishing characteristics that give promise of better things to come but for the heap of bland platitudes that have been recycled time and time again at all […]

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ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මේ වන විට සාමාන්‍ය ජනතාවගෙන් කොටසකට මහින්ද එපාවී ඇති බව  අසත්‍යයක් නොවේ . එහෙත් ඒ හැමටම නොවේ .මහා ත්‍රස්තවාදියා මරාදමා රටට  සාමය උදාකරදීම නිසා  සාමාන්ය ජනතාවගෙන්  බොහොමයක්  තවමත් මහින්දට ආදරෙය. තවත් වසර කීපයක් යනතුරු  ඔවුහු මහින්ද ට කෘතවේදී වනු ඇත. එහෙත් මින් සමහර අයගේ හිත වල  හීන් කලකිරීමකුත් ඇත්තේ  වැඩිවන ජීවන බර  නොසලකා  […]

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Shenali D Waduge  Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, BJP Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs has declared that Sri Lanka should give equal rights to Tamils. Does this imply that Tamils do not enjoy equal rights, or perhaps that is the perception? If Sri Lanka’s closest neighbour thinks Tamils do not enjoy equal rights we […]

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 Mal Munasinha Office of the Hon. Steven Blaney House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A AO6   Honourable Steven Blaney, I was very happy to hear your rebuttal on Rathika Sensebastien’s speech in Parliament. I agree that the speech she did about the Tamil Tigers comparing them to the Remembrance Day, is nothing more than a […]

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By Rohana R. Wasala (This is the third of my quintuplet of essays on the subject of religion. I am only expressing a personal point of view as an interested layman who claims no academic knowledge of the subject. Readers need not buy my opinions offhand without examining them for themselves. Many educated religious people try […]

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 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: The failure of  Andhra Pradesh police in making any breakthrough regarding the brutal murder of a Telugu journalist a week back has prompted a northeast India based journalist body to express serious concern and annoyances. While condemning the vicious killing of MVN Shankar, a senior journalist working with Andhra Prabha, a […]

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