By Charles.S.Perera Are we  living today in  Sri Lanka that was there on the 8th January, 2015 ? 8th January, 2015 seems a long time ago. Since the Minister of Health of the  former President Mahinda Rajapakse’s Government  left stealthily in the night without even a word to the mat on which he slept (peduratath […]

Shenali D Waduge The Europeans are waking up. They are beginning to realize that money cannot buy happiness, that capitalism has not provided mental solace, that meat consumption has caused endless  health issues and their searching minds have discovered the richness in the scientifically proven philosophy of Buddhism. Coupled to this awakening, Europeans and in […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා ආණ්ඩුව ඇත්ත නොකියන බව පැහැදිලි ය. පළාත් පාලන ආයතන විසුරුවා නොහැරිය බව සැබෑ ය. ඒ ආයතනවල කාලය අවසන් වී ඇති බව ද සැබෑ ය. ඒ පිළිබඳ අපේ වාදයක් නැත. එහෙත් ආණ්ඩුවට කළ හැකි එකම දෙය ඒ ආයතන කොමසාරිස්වරුන් හෝ නිලධාරීන් හෝ යටතට පත්කිරීම නො වේ. එය එක් විකල්පයක් පමණකි, එය සිදු නොකළ […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න සිරිසේන   කොටි නට බියව එලියට නොබස්ස කාලයක් තිබුනේය  .කොටි පරදවා  ලීමට ඔහුද ඇතුලත් රජය ක්‍රියා කරන විට රජයට   නින්දා අපහාස කරමින් ඒ ජා පය කටයුතු කරනවිට  එදා ඒ ගැන හිරිකිතයෙන් හා කෝපයෙන් කතා කල සිරා  හදිසියේම දෙව්ලොව  යන්නට සිතා අලිවලිගේ එල්ලුනේ හැමෝම අන්දමන්ද කරමිනි .  බලය අ ත හරින්නට බලය ඉල්ලු ඔහු  1948 […]

Tissa Gunatilaka from Sydney The mainstream education that we all receive irrespective of where we live is ‘western’. There is no other comparable education system to the western education except in Theravada Buddhist countries including Sri Lanka, called the Pirivena Education. Unfortunately most of the people who receive ‘western’ education are not capable of sieving […]

Keerthi Hewagoda Environmental Activist To: Sri Lanka President Secretariat Prime Minister’s Office, Sri Lanka Forest department, Department of Wild Life conservation. Ministry of Environment Sri Lanka Archaeological department  Central Environmental Authority (CEA) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) CAO  Compliance Advisor Ombudsman RAMSAR , the secretariat for the Convention on Wetlands International Union for Conservation […]

Sri Lanka police ban Tamil event marking end of civil war By PTI | 16 May, 2015, 04.01PM IST 7 comments |Post a Comment http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/sri-lanka-police-ban-tamil-event-marking-end-of-civil-war/articleshow/47308385.cms Economictimes ” I am dismayed and angry as a  Sri Lankan and saddened as economic times reader for distorting sri Lanka’s  National Flag. How would the Indians react id their […]

(From the Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon(1869-1943) They went with songs to the battle; they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady, and aglow They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe.   They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow […]

Ben Silva Before MR  was elected  to  power,   Sri Lanka experienced    30 years of terror and many innocent Sinhalese and Muslims  and Tamils   died.  Terrorists destroyed assets of the State and money was wasted and no funds were available for infrastructure development. There were  allegations that during  CBK’s time and that of RW’s time, corruption […]

Shelton A. Gunaratne Professor of communication emeritus, MSUM Moorhead, MN—Web 2.0 technology has enabled me to transmit messages to mass media in Sri Lanka from my hometown in Northcentral Minnesota within a few seconds. In 1966, when I first arrived in Minnesota as a Lake House journalist on a World Press Institute Fellowship, it took me […]

By Senaka Weeraratna           Ven. Bowatte Indraratana Thera Nearly two years ago on Vesak Day, May 24, 2013, Ven. Bowatte Indraratana Thera made the supreme sacrifice by giving up his precious life opposite the Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth in Kandy). He made this sacrifice so as to draw public attention […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane The first Muslims of Sri Lanka were a small community who came from South India around the 16th century. They were descendants of Arab traders who had settled in South Indian coastline after marrying Tamil speaking women. Throughout the 17th century, during the Dutch period of occupation of our coastal areas Muslims […]

Courtesy  Adaderana The Supreme Court has issued an Interim Relief Order temporarily suspending the Gazette notification issued by President Maithripala Sirisena cancelling the long term lease on an extent of land for the proposed Sampur Heavy Industry Zone in Trincomalee, which is considered the largest investment project in Sri Lanka. The Interim Order was issued […]

Courtesy Adaderana Justice L.K. Wimalachandra, a Commissioner of the Bribery Commission, has resigned with effect from Friday (15), the Director General of the commission Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe said. He had resigned to allow the appointing of new commissions in line with the 19th amendment coming into force since yesterday, she told Ada Derana. With regard […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island ‘Invoking int’l org not a prerogative of Mahinda’s Camp’ May 15, 2015, 12:00 pm Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, MP, yesterday strongly disputed Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe’s move to consult the Commonwealth as regards a recent Supreme Court ruling in respect of the fundamental rights petition filed by former Defence […]

-කෝට්ටවත්තේ ගුණසේන පෙරේරා යුතුකම සංවාද කවය www.yuthukama.com හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පසුගියදා පැවති උත්සවයක් අමතමින් මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා  ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබුණේ ඉදිරි මහ මැතිවරණයෙන් පසුවද පිහිටුවන්නේ යූඇන්පී- ශ්‍රී ලංකා හවුල් ආණ්ඩුවක් බවයි. (සිරිසේන මහතා එය හඳුන්වා තුබුබේ හවුල් ආණ්ඩුවක් ලෙස නොව ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවක් ලෙසයි. නමුත් ඒ ප්‍රකාශයේ කිසිඳු තේරුමක් නැති බැවින් අපි එය හවුල් ආණ්ඩුවක් ලෙසම නම් කරමු ) […]

ඉසුරු රන්දෙනිකුමාර යුතුකම සංවාද කවය www.yuthukama.com  වසර 30ක යුද්ධය නිමාවුනි. ඒ කොටි ත්‍රස්තවාදය රටින් තුරන් කිරීම මගිනි. ත්‍රස්තවාදය තුරන් කොට සාමයේ කිරුල අප හට ලැබුනේ රන් බන්දේසියක තබා නම් නොවේ. ත්‍රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව දහස්ගණන් රණවිරුවෝ රටේ ස්වෛරීභාවය වෙනුවෙන් දිවිපිදූහ. දිනාගත් සෑම බිම් අඟලක්ම අප රණවිරුවන්ගේ ලෙයින් තෙත් වී ඇත. රත්පැහැ තල් ගෙඩි බැබලෙන්නේ ද, ඉදුනු මිරිස් […]

Rahul What miserable and pathetic creatures My3, RW, C BK and Samaraweera are! I ask myself Oh God, what sin have I committed in a previous birth to be born amongst this nest of traitorous snakes?” 19 May 09 is a Red letter day in the history of Sri Lanka. That is the day when […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed serious concern over the killing of third bloggers in Bangladesh this year and urged the Sheikh Hasina led government in Dhaka to probe into the matter authentically to book the culprits under the respective laws. The media reports from southeast Asian nation reveal that the […]

By Sandarasi Sudusinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Irrespective of how hard she tries to hide them from us, History ultimately yields her secrets to us …and thankfully, very many of them add wings to our imaginations and take us on fantastic astral trips to forgotten islands and idyllic times. Some of the flights of fancy are however […]

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka …he also underestimated badly the Rajapakse regime as well as the armed forces. Prabhakaran did not expect the armed forces to keep on progressing relentlessly as they did. But despite heavy losses the military juggernaut kept on rolling forward. More importantly he expected President Mahinda Rajapakse would cave into international pressure and […]