Prof. Hudson McLean Although I have remained silent for three years, I have followed the goings-on in Sri Lanka with interest. First of all, may I comment that the Sri Lankan politics could also be written as a Shakespearen play.  The latest event symbolises Julius Ceaser. “Et tu, Brute!” cried Julius Ceaser, as he spilt […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම දකුණේ සිංහල දේශපාලකයින්  සමග එක්ව වැඩකරන දෙමල ජාතිකයින්, දෙමල ද්‍රෝහීන් කියා හංවඩු ගැසීම 1930ස් ගණන්වල සිටම ක්‍රිස්තියානි දෙමල බෙදුම්වාදීන් අතලොස්සකගේ පහත් දේශපාලන උපක්‍රමයක් විය. ජේන් රසල් නම් ඇමෙරිකන් නෝනා ඩොනමෝර් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රමය ගැන ඇයකල ආචාර්ය උපාධි පර්යේෂණ පොතෙන් මේ පිළිඹද උදාහරණ කිහිපයක්ම ගත හැකිය. මට ඒ අයගේ නම් දැන් මතකයට නොේ.  එක නමක් නම් […]

Chanaka Bandarage The writer had worked numerous times with the Great SL Gunasekera, and takes pride identifying himself as a close friend of SL. For over 30 years SL was engaged in the struggle against Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka. Many times he was the lone voice against Tamil terrorism, especially in the legal scene. […]

 By Gomin Dayasri  Initials S.L surpassed surname Gunasekera. Branded to blend with the land of his birth – his name attracted shades of love and despair. Reciprocally, he loved those who made the country proud and despised those that discredited his cherished land. His countrymen to their inclinations called him a patriot or racist: he […]

Hot News Confirming his mud-slinging website created story,  Mangala Samaraweera, the spokesman for new President Maithripala Sirisena, said Sunday that the Cabinet would investigate the alleged coup attempt by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stay in power when results showed he was losing last week’s election. Samaraweera said: “People think it was a peaceful transition. […]

By Dean Nelson, New Delhi Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) Tamil vote fuelled Maithripala Sirisena to victory despite his pledge to shield the Rajapaksa family from war crime investigations The noisiest celebrations for the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa, were not in the capital Colombo but in the Tamil North and over Adam’s Bridge, the ancient causeway which […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala The post-January 8 euphoria of the winners is inevitable and predictable. The effusive triumphalism is a natural expression of embracing the electoral victory of Maithripala Sirisena. Winners, of course, are entitled to their glorious moment of triumph, however ephemeral it may be. Not even Paki” Saravanamuttu can object to the triumphalism […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න   එජාප ය ,    දෙමල පක්ෂ මුස්ලිම් පක්ෂ  හා හෙළ උරුමය  යන අපි දන්නා  තාත්තලා ත්  නොදන්නා තවත් තාත්තලාටත්  ජාතක වී  දරුවෙක් ඉපදී ඇත . මේ සියලු තාත්තලා  එක එක ජාතියේ ය.  දන්නා හැටියට  දෙන්නෙක් ත්‍රස්ත්යන්ය  දේපල අයිති උරුමක්කාරයන්ගෙන් දේපල කඩා ගැනීමට මේ ත්‍රස්තයන් උත්සාහ කරන විට  උරුමක්කාරයෝ  තමන් නියම උරුමක්කාරයන් නම්   විරුද්ධ […]

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 […]

 Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.”So said John Greenleaf Whittier.  Watching Mahinda Rajapakse leaving, one marvels at the fact that  we have absolutely  no control of what tomorrow holds for us.  One day you are king, and the next […]

P.Ariyasinghe Presidential Elections have come and gone. People wanted a change. The new President won by 51.28 per cent of the votes and took oaths as President. And everyone is waiting for the implementation of the proposed 100 day Program and hopes that it brings good for the country. But there are concerns with regard […]

Dilrook Kannangara  In 2010 Mahinda won with an astounding lead of close to two million. But within just five (5) years, he lost 2.3 million votes to a hitherto unknown contestant. How did that happen? It is important to get it right. Otherwise the UPFA and the Rajapaksa clan will be condemned to nothingness for […]

Badulla District Parliamentarian Nimal Siripala de Silva said today UPFA assured its support in carrying out  the common opposition’s 100-day programme . We will not obstruct the common opposition’s 100-day programme. We hope they will carry out it as promised. People voted for Maithripala Sirisena because they approved their programme. We also expect to help […]

January 2015 Sunday January 11 A Cabinet of not more than 25 members, including members of all political parties represented in Parliament, will be appointed with Leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister Monday January 12 In order to strengthen democracy, a National Advisory Council will be set up inclusive of representatives of […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE  “IT’S THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE” VAIKO We wish to thank the vast  majority of Sri Lankan Theravada Sinhala Buddhists for providing  the Happiest Day in his life to MDMK General Secretary Vaiko.  The Hindu newspaper reported on 9 January that  Vaiko  has said “Today is the happiest day […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ පොදු පෙරමුණට එකතුවූ සියළුම දෙනාමවාගේ බොදු බල සේනාවට විරුද්ධවූ අයය. එකම මීට වෙනස් කොටස වූයේ ජාතික හෙළ උරුමය (රතන හිමියන් හා චම්පික රණවක) ය. බොදු බල සේනාව හා මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා අතර සාකච්චාවක් ඔවුන් මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට පක්‍ෂව කතා කිරීමට තීරණය කිරීමට පෙර පැවැත්‌විණ. මෙම හමුවේදී දෙපාර්‍ශවය මොනවා කතාකලාදැයි රට […]

 Anjalika Silva (USA)  The Election is over. All the mudslinging and propaganda stunts that were visible and annoying are over.  The loud call for a regime change has happened and many promises have been made both visible and invisible to voters.  The two sides are almost equally divided with the majority being a thin sliver […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai/ Coordinator, Almuslimaath.  Dehiwela Almuslimaath, The Srilankan Association of Muslim women and Girls welcome you and wish you all the best Mr. President. Needless to say, just like those who wished you to come to power, we are overwhelmed by your magnificent victory. We feel it is the victory of the voice […]

By Afshain Afzal Since long Foreign Recruitment Centres” have been established in Afghanistan and Pakistan, through which Asians and Arabs are being offered foreign citizenships. The aim of such a recruitment is that foreign citizens, having dual nationalities will be sent back to the countries of their origin to serve as mercenaries to achieve US’ […]

The White House Office of the Press Secretary On behalf of the American people, I congratulate the people of Sri Lanka on the successful and peaceful conclusion of Sri Lanka’s presidential election and incoming President Maithripala Sirisena on his victory. I also commend the outgoing administration of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for facilitating a swift and […]

P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne Maithripala Sirisena has taken oaths as President. He made pacts with everyone opposed to Mahinda. Mahinda failed to recognise that those who were around him were corrupt . Most Ministers were arrogant and corrupt to the core and were basking in the glory of former President’s victory over the terrorists. Some alleged that […]

SUHASINI HAIDAR Courtesy The Hindu He had highlighted the foreign debt trap” in manifesto Sri Lanka watchers in India believe that with Maithripala Sirisena coming to power in Sri Lanka, the island nation’s tilt towards China will be reduced considerably. They have been critical of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for his tilt towards China” […]

Hot News Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal  submitted his resignation from the post of Central Bank Governor to pave the way for the new President to appoint a person of his choice a news report said. It’s a good thing for a new president to have a new governor, so I have paved the way […]

Hot News President Maithripala Sirisena sworn in as the 6th Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka before Supreme Court Judge K. Sri Pawan at the Independence Square in Colombo, a short while ago. Taking oaths President Maithripala Sirisena  vowed not to contest for a second term in future signalling abolition of executive […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa phoned Maithripala Sirisena early this morning and congratulated him on his impending victory and inquired from the Common Candidate when he would assume duties, Presidential Spokesman Mohan Samaranayake said. President Mahinda Rajapaksa left Temple Trees, after a discussing with Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Cabinet assuring a smooth transfer of power, […]

 ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න දේශප්‍රේමී  එස් එල් ගුණසේකර ගේ හදිසි  අභාවය  විසින්   සනිටුහන් කලේ   ජාතික  ඛේදවාචකයක්””  අ ත ””ළඟ  බවය් . මයිත්‍රී දිනුවේ මුස්ලිම් හා දෙමල අන්තවාදීන් චන්ද වලිනි  එනිසා දිනුවේ මයිත්ත්රී නොව අන්තවාදීන්ය  පැරදුනේ මහින්ද නොව සිංහල බෞධ්ධයන්ය . රටේ  උරුමක්කාරයෝ  පැ රදී පරදෙෂක්කාරයෝ  ජයගැනීම  මයිත්ත්රී  නාමයම කැළැල් කරය්  . එහෙත් මයිත්ත්රී මහතාණෙනි ඔබ ප්‍රමාද […]

ධනුෂ්ක රාමනායක පුලතිසිපුර ලක්ෂ උයන ගොවි ජනපදයේ ඉපිද ලොව දිනන්නට සමතෙකු ලෙස හැදී වැඩුණු මෛතී්‍රගේ දෙමාපියෝ සියනෑ කෝරළයේ ගණේමුල්ල ප්‍රදේශයෙන් රජරට ගොවි බිම් වෙත සංක්‍රමණය වූවෝ ය. දෛවෝපගත ලෙස, මෛත්‍රීගේ උපත සිදු වූයේ 1951 සැප්තැම්බර් 02 වැනි දින ශී්‍ර ලංකා නිදහස් පක‍ෂය නිල වශයෙන් ආරම්භ වී හෝරා කිහිපයක් ගෙවී ගිය තැන ය. ශී්‍ර ලංකා නිදහස් […]

By Sarath W  Financed by Ranil’s backers, the ‘regime change’ specialists and Chandrika’s backer the Indians, well supported by the minorities, Colombians and the Catholics Sirisena has become the president of Sri Lanka. The majority of just over 450,000 votes has made him the president of the ungrateful Tamils and Muslims. Does this means Sirisena […]

Courtesy dna Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaderSubramanian Swamy on Friday said the new Sri Lankan Government is going to be a hotchpotch of so many parties, as theBuddhist clergy and Islamic parties have also joined this new coalition. “What is to be watched is the new government that is going to be hotchpotch of so many […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න පරාජය බාරගෙන   මහින්ද ගෙදර යන විටම කැබිනට්  එ කේ ඇමැතිවරුත්  ඉල්ලා අස්වීම  ට  කටයුතු කර ගැන යන බව අලුත්ම ආරන්චියය්    ‘ යහපාලනයක්  ගෙනයන බව කියන යට එසේ කිරීමට ඉඩදී අපි සියලු දෙනාම අස්වෙමුයය් මහින්ද යෝජනා කර ඇත. මයිත්‍රී ශ්‍රී   ල නිපා යෙන් අස්වී නැත. ඔහු   අ ත ලකුණ යටතේ ම  ශ්‍රී ල නි […]