Archive for February, 2015
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ජේ ආර් 13 ව්යවස්ථාව ගෙන එනතුරු මේ රට ”’ පිවිතුරු”” ඒකීය රාජ්ජයක් විය. පිවිතුරු හෙටක් ගැන කතාකරන ය මේ බව දනිති එහෙත් දැන් කතා නොකරති ,13 ට පෙර මුළු රටම පාලනය වුයේ ත් රටට නීති අනපනත් සම්පාදනය වුයේත් එකම ආන්ඩු වකිනි, එකම තැනිනි 13න් පසුව මහරජයේ බලතල හා පළාත් ආණ්ඩු බලතල යනුවෙන් දෙකට […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is let loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. And what rough beast, its hour come round […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
ALI SUKHANVER It is a difficult question to be answered whether we really enjoy being in a state of oblivion while making a list of our friends and foes? For the last many decades we, the Pakistanis, as a nation, have been trying our best to introduce us as a peace-loving rather cordial and friendly […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Yahapalanaya News The President, in his first address to the nation through a TV interview, revealed that in consultation with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, he cancelled an order placed by the previous government to acquire a special aircraft from the US for the exclusive use of his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa. The President claimed that Sri […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ආදියේ මේ රට හැදින්වුනේ ත්රිසින්හළේ නමිනි, ඒ එසේ වුයේ සිංහලයන්ගේ රට බැවිනි පරන්ගියාගේ කාලයෙන් පසුවඋඩරට රාජධානිය ට ගියඅ ය පවා නැගෙනහිර පදිංචි ගියේ ”’අපි සිංහලේ යනවා ;”’ කියමිනි ලන්දේසීන් හා ඉංග්රීසින් විසින් ලෙසින් මෙරටට ගෙන එන ලද ඉන්දියානුවන් දැන් ත්රිසින්හලයෙන් උතුරේ කොටසක් කඩාගෙන ය වෙළදාමට සිංහලේට පැමිණි මරක්කලයෝ පරංගින්ට බියෙන් ඉබාගාතේ දුවන විට […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Commenting on the controversial removal of Mohan Peiris from the post of Chief Justice and the reinstatement of Shirani Bandaranayake as CJ is null and void, former Chief Justice Sarath N Silva said yesterday. He said the proper procedure had not been followed even in the appointment of Ranil Wickremesinghe as […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Mrs Kumari Samarasinghe Dear Editor, Lankaweb I have been watching the 2015 Sri Lankan Presidential elections and how the previous President was defeated with a chain of lies and a coalition that never could work together. Now that the new man is in power, SL has become a comedy act. I think it is high […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
IS THIS THE YAHAPALANAYA PEOPLE VOTED FOR???? Sivanesan Memorial Hall declared open in Jaffna [TamilNet, Sunday, 01 February 2015, 18:40 GMT] A memorial hall has been declared open in Jaffna on Saturday in commemoration of Maamanithar K. Sivanesan, a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian who was assassinated in a targeted claymore explosion by the Deep […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
by Shenali D Waduge Slaughter every man, woman, and child (including babes suckling at the breast)” were the orders given by Governor Robert Brownrigg (3rd British Governor of Ceylon from 1813 – 1820) to Maj. Gen. Hay MacDowell in 1818. It is the edict that left the people in the agriculturally rich grain growing region […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Prof. Hudson McLean New York Times article – Humiliating Sri Lanka’s National Flag! This is an outrageous act by a nincompoop who should be taken to task according to American Law. President Sirisena should instruct the Sri Lankan Ambassador Washington to take appropriate action. As a predominantly Buddhist country, Sri Lanka will not act in […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
ඉහත සඳහන් චිත්රය පසුගිය ජනවාරි 20 වැනිදා ඇමරිකාවේ නිව්යෝක් ටයිම්ස් පුවත්පතෙහි රයන් ගුඩ්මන් නමැති මහාචාර්යවරයාගෙ ් ලපි ියක් සමග පළවූවකි. ලිපිය ශී ්ර ලංකාවේ නව ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයට උපකාර කිරීම සම්බන්ධවයි. මේ ඡායාරූපයෙන් ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය යනු කුමක් ද යන්න ද උපකාර කිරීම යන්නෙන් අදහස් කරන්නේ කුමක් ද යන්න ද ඉතා පැහැදිලිව නිරූපනය කෙරෙයි. අප බොහෝ අවස්ථාවල දී පෙන්වා […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Janaka Perera Before 1939 the British were in no great hurry to grant self-rule to their colonies, despite all the heroic freedom struggles, notably in India, and the campaigns for constitutional reforms in countries like Sri Lanka. It fact British leaders like Winston Churchill wanted to keep forever the empire on which the sun would […]
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම රුවන් වීරසිංහ මහතා පරිගණක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්යාලය ප්රිය මහත්මයාණනි, මෙම පිළිතුර ඔබතුමාගේ පෙබරවාරි 2 දිනැති ඊමේල් ලිපිය සම්බන්ධයෙනි. ප්රමාදවී හෝ ඔබ මට, ඔබ විසින් දූෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණට යැවූ ඊමේල් ලිපිය හා පී ඩී එෆ් ඇමුණුම නොෙවීමට ගත් අයහපත් තීරණය වෙනස් කිරීම ගැන සතුටු වෙමි. අවංකවම කියනවා නම් මේ ඔබේ ක්රියා තුන (මට […]
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha Being a Professor of Medicine and Law for many International Universities; and coming from the most noble Mudaliya Family of Louis Corneille Wijesinha; who being my great grandfather and the genius scholar who translated the great Mahavamsa from Pali to English; and thus of this aristocracy of the Nations Most Selective […]
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
C. Wijeyawickrema ලංකාවේ දුෂ්ඨ ත්රිකෝණය දේශපාලකයා-නිලධාරියා-ජාවාරම්කාරයා යන තුන්කොටසින් සැදුනු දුෂ්ඨ ත්රිකෝණයක් 1977 න් පෙර සිටම දළුලමින් පැවතියේය. මේ නිසා 1977 ඡන්දයේදී ජේ ආර් මහතා විසින් ධර්මිෂ්ට සමාජයක් ගැනත්, 1994 දී චන්ද්රිකා මැතිණිය විසින් දූෂණ හා භීෂණ රහිත යුගයක් ගැනත් කතා කලත් ඔවුන් බලයට ආපසු සිදුවූයේ ඊට හාත්පසින්ම වෙනස් දේය. දැන් නැවත වරක් 2015 දී යහපාලනයක් […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Yahapalanaya News Reuters reports Sri Lankan shares fell to over five-month lows on Monday due to panic selling in blue-chips, led by John Keells Holdings Plc as concerns over future earnings weighed on sentiment after the government raised taxes on cash-rich firms. The day’s fall erased market capitalisation by 76.3 billion rupees ($577.2 million) on Monday […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Sumanasiri Liyanage Courtesy Island How do I call this government? This question did not arise in the past as governments were elected with a specific name; UNP (1977- 1994), Peoples’ Alliance (1994- 2002), UNP (2002- 2004) and UPFA (2005- 2014). Although the present government is practically run by the UNP, it is hardly to say this […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Editorial -Courtesy Island President Maithripala Sirisena has said in a recent television interview that after winning the Jan. 08 presidential election he realised that the implementation of the joint Opposition’s 100-day programme was not possible without the SLFP’s cooperation in Parliament. The president, in spite of having unbridled executive powers, cannot function without parliamentary backing, […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
This is the proof of that conspiracy of unholy alliance (CBK,RW, UNP,JVP,JHU, RAW, CIA & LTTE) Are you going to blame Rajapakse for this too? This is what the Rajapakse administration protected sri Lanka from! All those that revenge voted him out should take responsibility for this and make it right! New York Times article – Humiliating Sri […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
An anti-terrorist US Citizen In this piece of high handed journalism you have desecrated the sacred flag of Sri Lanka by altering it with figures riding the lion with an American Flag. No Sri Lankan will accept your idea of graphic alternation to their national flag. You need to apologize profusely to Sri Lanka for […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Yahapalanaya News From Sri Lanka Former General Secretary of the United National Party and Health Minister Tissa Attanayake had been remanded till February 11 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate. Remanding a person for an alleged civil offense seems a sign of things to come under this government’s Yahapalanaya. One would have thought that Mr Attanayake […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
සමන් ගමගේ -ඉරිදා දිවයින 01-02-2015 “වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවට කියන්නට වැදගත් දෙයක් අපට ඇත. ආණ්ඩුව යහපාලනය සමඟ ලබු ගෙඩියට අත තැබුවාට කමක් නැත. එහෙත් ලබ්බට තැබූ අත පුහුලට තබන්නට පෙර දෙවරක් සිතිය යුතුමය. මන්ද රටේ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව සියල්ලට වඩා වැදගත් වන නිසාය”. මෙතෙක් කලක් ජාත්යන්තර අහිගුණ්ඨිකයන්ගේ රෙදි අස්සේ සිටිමින් උන්ට ඕනෑ විට උන්ගේ පදේට හොරෙන් හොරෙන් නැටූ […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
First Television interview by President Sirisena President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday (Jan. 31) declared that though he was the leader of the SLFP, he wouldn’t undermine the UNP in the run-up to the forthcoming parliamentary election but lead the SLFP in balancing act for the benefit of the party. President says SLFP wouldn’t be let down. The President […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Percy Silva Where are the Buddhist organizations? Are they formed simply to hold meetings, dansals, wesak celebrations and be invited for opening ceremonies? Do they not realize that they play a pivotal role in making sure the identity of the Buddhist heritage remains in Sri Lanka and work towards inculcating amongst the youth and adult […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න උතුරට පූර්ණ 13 දීමට තමා එකඟ බවත් ”” මෝ ඔටෝනොමි ”” දෙන්නට සුදානම් බවත් රනිල් කියය් . දැන් ඉතින් සිංහල බෞධයන්ට වෙන්නේ ” ඔටවාගන ‘ බලා ඉන්නටය්. මයිත්ත්රී ට චන්දය දුන් අ ය හිතුවේ ශ්රී ල නිපයේ හිටි ගමේ එකා කවදාවත් මෙහෙම පාදඩ වැඩක් කරන්නේ නැතිවෙය් කියා විය හැක . එහෙත් චන්ද්රිකා සහ […]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2015
Shenali Waduge New York Times article ‘Helping Sri Lanka’s New Democracy’ by biased writer Ryan Goodman has humiliated Sri Lanka’s National Flag… placing a yankee carrying an American flag riding the lion (Sinhala race). If this is some sort of message the US is trying to convey… it is good for the Sri Lankan people […]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2015
Ira de Silva London, Canada The Editor New York Times New York,N.Y. U.S.A Dear Sir: I am writing to you regarding this disgusting exhibition of U.S. ignorance, arrogance and hypocrisy. To write of Sri Lanka’s “new democracy” shows how ignorant the writer and your paper is regarding Sri Lanka. It is a country that has had […]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2015
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න දෙමල කොටි ත්රස්තවාදී බෙදුම්වාදීන්ටත් ඉන්දියානු රාජ්ය ත්රස්තයන්ටත් තමන් විසින් ලංකාවට ගෙන ආ කුලී කාරයන්ට යන එන මන් සැපයීම ට අවශ්ය වූ ඉංග්රීසින් උන් තමන්ට බරක් නොවෙනසේ එහෙත් සිංහලයන්ට බරක් වෙනසේ පදිංචි කිරීමේකාර්යයට කල උප්පර වට්ටියක් වුත් 75% ක සිංහලයන්ට කිසිදා අවශ්ය නොවූත් ඔවුන්ගේ අදහස් වලට පට හානි වුත් 13 රටට අවශ්ය වන්නක් නොවේ […]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2015
ALI SUKHANVER The whole of the Indian society is under a cloud of fear and horror, every one forecasting some drastic terrorist activity during President Obama’s visit to India in the last week of this January. It is being apprehended that the terrorists would give a ‘warm welcome’ to President Obama on the Indian lands. […]
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