Dr. D. Chandraratna  It is rather distressing as a Sri Lankan to even think that a man from the rural hinterland has agreed to lead a Western sponsored Coup d’état. But his ignorance of world events and the machinations of hegemonic powers in a struggle for supremacy in the modern world after the collapse of […]

Photographs appear side by side in key Tamil Tiger haunts Sirisena, Ranil in Jaffna today to herald this ‘pact with Tamil Tigers’ With the TNA announcement yesterday that the Alliance has decided to support common candidate Maithripala Sirisena, photographs of Prabhakaran and Sirisena side by side appeared in key Tamil Tiger haunts in both Toronto […]

මහාචාර්ය කේ. කරුණාතිලක, කැළණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය මෙවර ජනාධිපතිවරණය මෙතෙක් පැවති ජනාධිපතිවරණයන්ට වඩා වෙනස් ස්වරූපයක් ගැනීමට වැදගත් වී ඇති එක් හේතුවක් වන්නේ එ් සඳහා ලැබුණු කාල සීමාවන්ය. එය බැලූ බැල්මට හදිසි ජනාධිපතිවරණයක් යැයි කීම නිවැරදිය. මැතිවරණ ප‍්‍රචාරණ කටයුතු සඳහා සති පහක පමණ කාලයක් ලැබීම ප‍්‍රධාන අපේක්‍ෂකයන් දෙදෙනාටම වාසි සහ අවාසි ඇති කරයි. ජනාධිපති අපේක්‍ෂක මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂට (මින් […]

Susantha Wijesinghe. Mr. Champaka Patali Ranawaka,  we had a lot of faith and confidence in you and Mr. Udaya Gamanpila,  as sri lankas true Patriots, who will someday take the whole country out of this Tamil Menace by Sambandung and his racist coterie, not forgetting the Tamil Diaspora. When you two left the Government, we […]

Chamikara Weerasinghe Daily News The wife of legendary artiste and doyen of Sri Lankan cinema, Dr. Lester James Peries, Sumithra Peries yesterday noted that responsible political leaders should avoid using doctored pictures just because they are available on websites. Jathika Hela Urulaya Leader Champika Ranwaka who publicised the picture concerned, had said that he had […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි වර්ෂ 2015 ජනවාරි මස 8 වෙනිදා මෙරට සුවිශේෂී ජනාධිපතිවරණයක් පවත්වයි. මේ ජනාධිපතිවරණය යනු ඉතා වැදගත් ජනාධිපතිවරණයක් වන අතර මෙහි ප්රතිඵල තුලින් මෙරට පාලනය සදහා ජනාධිපතිවරයකු තෝරන අතරම; මේ රට තුල පවතින ජීවමාණ මළකදන් වන්වූ නිවට නියාලු පුද්ගලයින්ගේ ජන සංඝණනයක්ද සිදුවේ. මේ වනවිට පවතින තත්වයන් හා ෂාධක විසින් වර්තමාන ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා […]

Mahinda Weerasinghe  The Author of ‘The Origin of Species According To the Buddha’ Part II Buddhist Sensory Becoming” principle contra Darwin’s Natural Selection” Extraordinarily enough, it is taken for granted that, it is through Darwin’s famous work ‘The Origin of Species’ that the world first stumbled upon the evolutionary process of species and its shadowy workings. Indeed […]

Ratanapala 5 Jan 2015 If Sirisena wins Eelam will not be a distant dream of the racist Tamils. It will become reality just like Kosovo with the intervention of the Western forces. Let the politicos and the powers that be too understand the implications if the unthinkable were to happen.  Marine and Oceanic Resources 200 […]

Ratanapala 5 Jan 2015 Eelam, water wars and a permanent state of war across an undefined and moving border!  Water wars and a permanent state of war! River systems that cross the 2008 Eelam Boundary     Potential flash points for war Majority of Sri Lankans living in the contested areas are peasant farmers, for […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala When Bishop Rayappu Joseph, one of the most rabid and committed  promoters and protectors of Tamil fascist tyranny, raised his hands that  blessed Velupillai Prabhakaran in the past and placed them on the head of Maithripala Sirisena the other day, he was signaling, in an unambiguous political act, that he was […]

Dilrook Kannangara  Sections of the Opposition may make an attempt on the life of Maithripala in the last few days leading up to the election and blame the government. Given the tide he has created, it is a good starting point for the ambitious Opposition politicians to field their own candidate who have been failing […]

By Chandrasiri Atukorale Mr. Maithreepala Sirisena is going around the country saying that he will abolish the present Executive Presidency in 100 days, if he is elected president at the forthcoming presidential election. At the same time he also says that he will appoint Mr. Ranil Wickremasignhe as his Prime Minister. What next is not […]

Ratanapala – 4 Jan 2015 With the formation of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in 1951, the majority Sinhalese became a near non-entity in Sri Lankan politics. Sinhala polity got bifurcated and each half went of separate ways in a manner suicidal to each other. This provided and opened up untold vistas for the minorities […]

The Island Editorial January 4, 2015, 9:13 pm There are only three more days to go for the presidential election and the indefatigable propagandists of the government and the Opposition are fighting the final battle with guns blazing. Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (CBK), who is leading the Opposition campaign from the front, has drawn […]

Dr. Kamal Wickremesinghe No one has ever accused Mangala Samaraweera of possessing appreciable amounts of common sense, decency or political integrity. His attempt to explain Chandrika Kumaratunga’s calling the murderous terrorist Pirapakaran Mr Prabhakaran” – as demonstrating her Sinhala Buddhist upbringing – however, was a low act even by his own standards. In the attempt, […]

Nadira Gunathilleke People who talk against the Executive Presidency do not have even an iota of knowledge about it. In my opinion, we should retain the Executive Presidency forever, not only for another five or 10 years. The Executive Presidency is the most modern and most popular system of government in the world at the […]

Country ruled with a clear people-friendly vision Ethnic and religious harmony safeguarded Dharma Sri Abeyratne in Kantale The government will never allow any force to destroy hard won peace and ethnic harmony and bring back the dark era again, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. He said the country is ruled with a clear people-friendly vision, safeguarding […]

Ratanapala  4 Jan 2015 The 13th Amendment in its various manifestations will be in for consideration with Eelamist Tamils if Sirisena wins. It is best if Sri Lankan electorate come to know the implications of giving into Eelam demands.  Let the politicos and the powers that be too understand the implications. Part 1.  Indefinite, non […]

Nimal Rajakaruna From two of my previous articles I pointed out how the true nature of Champika Ranawaka has been exposed as a pseudo nationalist and a traitor. From the news item on Lanka C news (link below), it is shown how a photo of President Mahinda Rajapakse taken with Veteran artist Dr Lester James […]

Jayantha Liyanage.Sinhala Jathika Peramuna (SJP) It is very sad News that Sinhala Nationalist expats are now divided into two camps similar to Sinhala people here in Sri Lanka. SJP was of the opinion that Sinhala Nationalist expats living in the western countries as well as in Australia are politically and intellectually above the ordinary voters […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE The total number of registered voters for the 2015 Presidential Election  will be 15,044,090.  In 2010  the registered voters stood at 14,088,500 and the valid votes obtained by all candidates reached 10,393,613  after allowing for the rejected votes.   Therefore, in  2010 the net participation rate of valid voters represented 74%. […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana. [ The author and his colleagues, during his days as the Head of the Dept. of Chemistry, Vidyodaya University, developed the fledgling food science diploma” into a well-grounded food technology course, constructed its course content, basic experiments, and hired its young staff in the early 1970s. Today it is a full-fledged university […]

LankaWeb Weekly Editorial Jan.6th 2015 President Mahinda Rajapaksa has done a great service to all the people of Sri Lanka.  Irrespective of ethnicity,  all the communities within this country as well as many other sources particularly in the field of investment, tourism and those who believe in the freedoms that need to be enjoyed by all with no […]

By Garvin Karunaratne There is many an indication that outside forces are at work within our shores with sinister ideas of controlling our country today. In our living memory many are the instances where outside forces did interfere with us. This has taken different forms. Denying us Aid is an indirect interference. The USA is […]

by Garvin Karunaratne  I have just read the news item that three LTTE cadres were caught making an atom bomb in Bangalore. I enclose a copy of that news item in the Rivira. This is supposed to have been a unit under Prabhakaran that was sent way to india on the eve of defeat. ඉන්දියාවේ […]

by Shenali D. Waduge There is an issue that has been overlooked. Firstly, it is the manner that Maithripala was parachuted to the role of Opposition Candidate ignoring the line-up UNP contenders including Ranil Wickremesinghe. Next, is the factor that emerges from numerous UNP crossovers to the possibilities of the UNP party diminishing into oblivion […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න හින්දු ඉන්දියාව විසින්  හිමාල  අඩවියෙන් සොයා  සපයන  ලද”” ‘ බෞද්ධ දේශ භංග ””’ ශාඛයේ පස්පංගුව  වනේ දමා කොටා  එංගලන්ත සභාවේ ආශීර්වාදය ලැබූ  ශුද්ධවූ ජලයෙන්  වසර තිහක් තිස්සේ කකාරා  ජීවන්කර ”’සර්වභේද වාදී කල්කය  ”’ ද  මුසු කර   නිපදවූ  ”’ ද්වේශාරිෂ්ටය ””  චන්ද්‍රිකා  තාක්ෂනය  උපයෝගී කරගෙන  රහසේ සිංහල දේශය  වෙත කන්ටේනර්  පිටින් නොමිලේ  ලබාදී  ඇති […]

P.Ariyasinghe, Melbourne TNA leader Sambandan, in an interview with the Daily Mirror had said that, ‘the LTTE has now been destroyed and in such a scenario how can the TNA be its proxy. The TNA has never been an LTTE proxy..’ But during the hey days of the LTTE, TNA had openly declared that the […]

By Charles.S.Perera At the meetings of  the President Mahinda Rajapakse, the speakers make very moving speeches  attacking the Opposition for its most unfounded accusations against the President and his government. The Opposition  accuses  the government  for the  absence of  good governance, corruption, and  nepotism.  But  they have forgotten that when  UNP, JR Jayawardhana, R.Premadasa, Ranil […]