Reading Between the Lines – Cross-Cultural Jargon
Posted on March 25th, 2015
Prof. Hudson McLean
Nearly all my contributions to LankaWeb were generally accepted by majority of the readership.
A few became obnoxious, impolite, way-out-of-civility. Simple minds of a few readers are unable to Read-between-the-Lines!
My last contribution….. National Government – Sealing the Motor-Mouths?
Posted on March 24th, 2015 was picked-up accurately by Sooriarachi Says: ——— March 25th, 2015 at 3:02 am
The point is, I am following several opinions from many countries outside Sri Lanka, and some of them do hold a prejudiced negative opinion of the Sri Lankan politicians in general, and Mahinda Rajapaksa in particular.
Some of them are 100% behind the Tamil cause and do not care if the LTTE barges in with or without heavy baggage like ISIS, with their head-chopping blades. There is an anti-Chinese element, mainly due to fear.
The fact that Chinese moved in with their money-machine, like the Chinese have virtually taken-over Africa, has upset both USA & Indians. Sri Lanka is a huge strategic Prize-to-Lose! For that particular reason, My3 Sirisena was invented, which solved many simple problems, like giving India a foot-up.
However, any Political-savvy operator could see that the entire “house-of-cards” on Sri Lanka politics only needs a mild South-Easterly wind. Need no details on this matter.
The elevation of General Sarath Fonseka to hold the Baton of a FM was not an idea from RW or CBK. The “odd-couple” do not think this far…
Fonseka was quite satisfied regaining his brass buttons back with the title of General. And of course the Pension with No questions asked about his son-in-law.
The brain-wave of Field Marshall was flown-in from a foreign power, by selling RW-CBK to gloat that a FM title will keep Fonseka away, from “pissing-inside-the-tent”. ……. Get the Drift? RW-CBK must have been having Moet-et-Chandon after hearing that. Both are upper-class snobs.
The foreign brain-wave read deeper into the minds of the two old politicos RW-CBK, who will definitely be “put-out-to-grass” when the Parliamentary elections results are announced.
It is a done-deal that RW will no longer reside at Temple Trees. MR will one-way-or-the-other creep in between the lovely Araliya trees, and then only the proverbial “the-sh*t-will-hit-the-fan”! There is bound to be a massive commotion between the warring parties; UNP-SLFP-UPFA-JVP. Possible riots amongst the Sinhala-Sinhala which will open the opportunity to LTTE-ISIS to move-in with speed.
The Terrorism will take a new dimension without actual manpower moving. The quad-rotor UAV Drones will do most of the damage. The Moratuwa University failed in their experiment due to lack of both Software & Funding.
There is only one leader with military credibility, a Sinhala Giant, who understands the entire geo-politics as a soldier, Field Marshall Sarath Fonseka! The Defense machinery most likely will accept Field Marshall as the leader who is competent to “put-out-the-flames”, as he did before.
Sri Lankan Sinhela will accept him as a Saviour. India will keep-out.
As before credible support will emerge from China – Pakistan – Israel. And Israel has the best Military UAV-Drone Technology available today! Both USA-EU-China-Russia and the rest will Wait & Watch.
This makes the coming Parliamentary Election so important to have a clear mandate to whoever comes out as winner!
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March 25th, 2015 at 2:35 pm
In a civilized country a politician such as the president will not seek another chance to come to power when he was defeated.RW had set a bad precedence, though he is a capable person having no support from the people, thus his party not got the required number of seats to form a government.
Coming back for more is unacceptable, just like the former Ugandan Prez,who was the ‘field marshal’ was a freak wanted to rule for life, never did any thing for the country and that goes for some in our country as well, where our politicians dress up like jokers deceive the people and live a high life, most probably abroad.
March 26th, 2015 at 3:02 am
Nimal,if you don’t like once lost President to come back you can vote against him,but don’t come preaching. Only a hypocrite can say that while praising the born loser RW. What is RW capable of other than messing up what others have done?
Prof. H.M,Moratuwa university did not fail in their experiment but our government failed them by not accomodating that project,but thay will continue and looking for a market.
I also felt some foul smell in making SF a FM which was totally uncalled for but SF is not a popular person capable of doing any considerable harm. As usual those who write the agenda as they did with Sirisen has chosen a lame horse.
March 26th, 2015 at 7:51 am
NAK,
If I am Ranil and was defeated once as a PM then I would resign with dignity as the leader and seek a back bench position but no as a PM.
Follow the traditions of the Westminster without being arrogant as it is the best that is going around at present.
The way Ranil spoke for the country on that interview was impressive but on principle he should not seek the position of the PM.
I am not sure what MR was, though I was an ardent supporter didn’t see any good other than winning the war that is the duty of any leader to see to the 30year carnage. Just like in UK Churchill was defeated in the following election, not because be defeated the enemy in the war, because he wasn’t good as peacetime PM.
We must follow the traditions and practices of countries that are progressive, where people feel comfortable. When things were going wrong we tried to bring to the attention of the people in command but they were not listening and paid the price. We had a lot of flack from the grass roots, especially at Badulla.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:27 am
A very dangerous development. Chandrika Perumal will handover EElam to TNA on a platter in the guise of reconciliation!
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Former Sri Lankan President to lead task force on reconciliation and national harmony
Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 09:01 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Mar 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaranatunga has been appointed to lead a special presidential task force to identify urgent reconciliation needs of the minority Tamil community, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced Thursday.
Prime Minister Wickremasinghe at a special meeting with the heads of government and private sector media institutes this morning at the Temple Trees said that a Secretariat on National Harmony has been declared open under the leadership of the former president Mrs. Kumaranatunga.
“We are focused in achieving communal and religious harmony,” Mr. Wickremesinghe told reporters.
Wickremasinghe said that the major task entrusted to the Presidential Task Force on Reconciliation (PTFR) is to preserve the diversity of all ethnic groups.
The PTFR would identify urgent reconciliation needs of the communities that require immediate solutions and would consider proposals from the public on the issues.
March 26th, 2015 at 12:23 pm
නිවාඩු ගත් බව කීවත් මහ බැංකු අධිපති දුරකථනයෙන් වැඩ
ශ්යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත
නිවාඩු ලබා සිටිනවා යෑයි කීවත් මහ බැංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් මහතා දිනපතාම පාහේ දුරකථන මාර්ගයෙන් උපදෙස් ලබා දෙමින් ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ කටයුතු මෙහෙයවන බව ඉහළ පෙළේ ආරංචි මාර්ගවලින් ‘දිවයින’ ට වාර්තා වේ.
මේ තත්ත්වය තුළ එකම වෙනස වන්නේ හෙතෙම කාර්යාලයට නොපැමිණීම පමණක් බවද, මහ බැංකුවේ කටයුතු මුළුමනින්ම සිදුවන්නේ දැනට පත්කර සිටින ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්ය අධිපතිවරයා හරහා අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්රන් මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයාට අවශ්ය ආකාරයට බවද එම ආරංචි මාර්ග කියා සිටී.
ආන්දෝලනයට තුඩුදී ඇති භාණ්ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර අක්රමිකතාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාධාරණ පරීක්ෂණයකට අවශ්ය කිසිදු තොරතුරක් මහ බැංකුවෙන් ලබා ගැනීමේ අවකාශය වැළකී ඇතැයිද එම ආරංචි මාර්ග තවදුරටත් සඳහන් කර සිටී. මෙම මහා පරිමාණ මූල්ය අක්රමිකතාව නිසා එම භාණ්ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර වෙන්දේසියෙන් පසු පළමු සති දෙක තුළ පමණක් රුපියල් කෝටි 2500 ක පමණ අලාභයක් රජයට සිදුව ඇතැයිද මේ වසර තුළදී සමස්තයක් ලෙස රුපියල් කෝටි දසදහසකට අධික අලාභයක් රජයට සිදුවනු ඇතැයිද මූල්ය වෙළෙඳපළ නියෝජිතයෝ ප්රකාශ කරති.
March 26th, 2015 at 12:25 pm
Dudley back in business!
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පොළොන්නරුවේ වී කොල්ලය යළි ඇරඹේ
කරුණාරත්න ගමගේ
පෞද්ගලික වෙළෙඳුන් විසින් සුපුරුදු වී කොල්ලය යළිත් ආරම්භ කොට ඇතැයි පෙළොන්නරුවේ ගොවීහු පෙන්වා දෙති.
නාඩු වර්ගයේ වී කිලෝවක මිල පෙරේදා (25දා) වන විට රුපියල් 28 ක් දක්වා පහළ බැස තිබේ.
වී මිල මෙසේ පහළ බැසීමට හේතුව රජය මගින් එක් ගොවියකුගෙන් මිලදී ගනු ලබන වී ප්රමාණය කිලෝ දෙදහසකට සීමා කිරීම නිසා බව ගොවි ජනතාව පෙන්වා දෙති. රජයේ සහතික මිල යටතේ අලෙවි කරනු ලබන එම වී ප්රමාණයෙන් අස්වනු කපා පාගා ගැනීම සඳහා යන වියදම්වත් පියවා ගැනීමට නොහැකි හෙයින් අමතර වී ප්රමාණයක් පෞද්ගලික වෙළෙඳුන්ට අඩු මුදලට හෝ විකිණීමට සිදුව ඇතැයි ගොවීහු පැවැසූහ.
මෙවර මාස් කන්නයේ වී අස්වැන්නද වෙනදාට වඩා පහළ බැස තිබෙන හෙයින් ලැබී ඇති සුළු අස්වනු ප්රමාණය හෝ මුදලාලිලාට කුණු කොල්ලයට විකිණීමට සිදු වීමෙන් තමන් කබළෙන් ලිපට වැටුණ බව ගොවීහු කියා සිටිති.
March 26th, 2015 at 12:26 pm
Does anyone know the name of this bastard?
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එන්. ජී. ඕ. ලොක්කෙක් විදේශ අමාත්යාංශ
මුදලින් නිව්යෝර්ක් සවාරි ගිහින්
කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය
මෙරට රාජ්ය නොවන සංවිධාන ප්රධානියකු විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යාංශයේ මුදල්වලින් ඇමරිකාවේ සංචාරයකට ගොස් නිව්යෝර්ක් නගරයේ පෝ සීයන්ස් නැමැති සුපිරි හෝටලයේ නවාතැන් ගෙන ඇත.
මේ සඳහා නිව්යෝර්ක්හි ශ්රී ලංකා නිත්ය නියෝජිත කාර්යාලයට මුදල් ගෙවීමට සිදු වී තිබේ.
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ රජයේ කිසිම තනතුරක් නොදරන මොහු මහජන මුදල්වලින් ඇමරිකාවේ සිදු කළ රාජකාරිය කුමක්දැයි ඇමරිකාවේ සිටින ශ්රී ලාංකිකයෝ ප්රශ්න කරති.
මෙම රාජ්ය නොවන සංවිධාන ප්රධානියා සම්බන්ධ සංවිධානයට නෝර්වේ රජය අරමුදල් සපයයි.