Archive for May, 2015
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Viragaya novel is a turning point in Sinhala literature. Literary genius Martin Wicramasinghe vibrantly portrays Aravinda’s character in Viragaya digging deep in to his inner psyche. Arvada’s conscious experience and ideas running through his mind are central part of the novel. His emotions, conscious and unconscious psychological conflicts are described […]
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා මෛත්රිපාල රනිල් ආණ්ඩුවට අද ඉතිරි වී ඇත්තේ පළිගැනීම් පමණ ය. ඔවුන්ට ජනතාව ඉදිරියට ගොස් කීමට ඇත්තේ අප අහවල් අහවල් අය අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඔවුන්ට විරුද්ධව අල්ලස් හෝ දූෂණ විමර්ශන කොමිසමේ හෝ අලුතෙන් පිහිටුවන ලද ඊනියා මූල්ය අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ කොට්ඨාශයේ හෝ විමර්ශන හෝ පරික්ෂණ හෝ කරන බව පමණ ය. එමෙන් ම ආණ්ඩුව කියනු ඇත්තේ […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
Cecil Atukorale We are sick of hearing bribery and corruption allegations now being made against the former President Mr. Mahinda Rajapakshe and his Cabinet of Ministers. The UNP politicians who are now very vociferous about wiping out bribery and corruption have forgotten the fact that all these vices sprang in this country with the open […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
LNW ඉන්දුනීසියාවෙන් කරුංකා පුවක් ලංකාවට ගෙන්වා ඉන්දියාවට අපනයනය කිරීමේ ජාවාරමක් සඳහා මුදල් ඇමති රවී කරුණානායකගේ සහාය ලැබී ඇතැයි වාර්තා වේ. ගෝල්ඩන් ෆුඩ්, වයඹ ට්රේඩර්ස්, AR,4S යන සමාගම් හතරක් මගින් මෙම කරුංකා පුවක් ජාවාරම සිදු කරමින් අධික ලාභයක් ලබා ගන්නා බවට වාර්තා වේ. කෙසේ වෙතත් මෙම කරුංකා පුවක් ගෙන්වා ප්රති අපනයනය කිරීමත් රේගු ආඥා පනතේ තාවාකාලිකව […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
Courtesy Adaderana The previous governments failed to defeat the LTTE because they were always prepared to kneel before the terrorists, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. The observation was made when the former President attended an event to commemorate all those who sacrificed their lives to preserve the nation’s independence. The event was held at the Vihara […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
Rahul says, To hell with Ranil, to hell with Chandrika, to hell with Sirisena, to hell with Samaraweera, let the plague be on all their houses. May the devil take them the terrorist Prabhakaran way! Would any one of the traitors have the courage to deny before the general election that they are bringing in […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
By Charles.S.Perera I hoisted the National Flag. I thanked the former President Mahinda Rajapakse for his determination to end terrorism. I thanked him for finally eliminating terrorism. I thanked him for giving the necessary political leadership for the war against terrorism and for its success. I thanked Gotabhaya Rajapakse for coordinating the armed forces and […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
JANAKI CHANDRARATNA, PERTH,WA There was a regime change in Sri Lanka on 8 January 2015. Some people called it a ‘non-violent people’s revolution’, although it was nothing of the kind. It was indeed a well-organized coup by the West and Raw with the assistance of a few internal opportunists, to get rid of the Rajapaksa […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
https://www.facebook.com/PattaVideos/videos/940323122655864/ 2009 වර්ෂයෙහි ශ්රී ලංකා යුද්ධ හමුදාව ලබාගත් විජයජයග්රහණයේ හි සබැ තත්වය. ( සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මැතිදුන්ගේ අධීක්ෂණය යටතෙහි KayVision ආයතනය හා යුද්ධ හමුදාව එක්ව කල නිෂ්පාදනයකි.) (උපුටා ගැනීම “කිසිවිටකත් සතුරාට යටත් නොවන වීරයෝ-විශේෂ බළකාය” පිටුවෙන්.)
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane Former Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka Six years ago, on 19th May 2009, with the official declaration of the elimination of the savage terrorist leaders and the victory over Tamil terrorism, the spontaneous expression of overflowing thrill, ecstasy and gratitude by the ordinary people across the country, was overwhelming. Lighting […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා නන්දිකඩාල් කලපුවේ දී දෙමළ ත්රස්තවාදය පරදවා අදට අවුරුදු හයක් ගතවෙයි. එය අපේ හමුදාවේ (ත්රිවිධ හමුදා, පොලීසිය හා සිවිල් ආරක්ෂක බලකාය) ජයග්රහණයක් නොවේ නම් වෙන කුමක් ද? අප ඒ ජයග්රහණය සමරන්නේ නැත්නම් සැමරිය යුත්තේ කුමක් ද? එම ජයග්රහණය සැමරීමෙන් හිත රිදෙන්නේ කාගේ දැයි මංගල සමරවීර හා රාජිත සේනාරත්න අපට පළමුව කියා දිය යුතු […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල්වා හිටපු ශ්රෙෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිශ්වයකාරයකු වූ ද වත්මන් උතුරු පළාත් මහා ඇමති වූ ද සී විග්නේස්වරන් මුලතිවූ ප්රදේශයේ දී සුමන්තිරන් ද සමගින් දෙමළ ත්රස්තවාදීන්ට එරෙහිව කළ හමුදා මෙහෙයුම්වල දී මියගිය අය සිහි කිරීම සඳහා රැස්වීමක් පවත්වා ඇත. එසේ කර ඇත්තේ අධිකරණය මුලතිවු ප්රදේශයේ කොටි සංවිධානය සිහි කරන රැස්වීම් පැවැත්වීම් තහනම් කරමින් තහනම් නියෝගයක් පනවා […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
Bana sermon by Ven. Dikwelle Seelasumana Thero (left) prior to Dawal Dane for the monks at Das Buddhistische Haus (Berlin Vihara) on Vesak Day (May 3). In the middle of the row of monks is Ven. K. Santharakkhitha Thero and next to him is the German monk Ven. Pasanno Thero. Seated on the Ground : […]
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
Adaderana A no confidence motion, signed by over 100 MPs, has been handed over to the Speaker against Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, Parliamentarian Ranjith de Zoysa told Ada Derana. The motion was handed over to Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa on Monday (18) afternoon. However, Minister Karunanayake during a press conference held last week insisted the United […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
Shenali D Waduge A correction needs to be made. If wars are declared between two countries and with Sri Lanka’s conflict described as a non-international armed conflict, the terminologies currently been applied to wives of LTTE widows need to be immediately corrected. War widows can be described as only those whose soldier husbands have died […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
Shenali D Waduge The War on Terror divided people into those with us or against us. The war effort in Sri Lanka divided people as those against terror and those indirectly/directly supporting terror. The post-war scenario finds the same sets of people who supported terror now camouflaged as conflict-resolutionists encouraging a bogus reconciliation. That a […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
By Svobodnaya Pressa Russia is avidly hoping for a rapprochement between India and China after the ongoing, high-profile visit of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to China. If political tensions between India and China decrease, then the Russia, India, China (RIC) combine can begin to function as the world’s economic and a strategic powerhouse, getting […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න සිංහල දේශයේ සිටින 75% ක් වන සිංහලයෝ රටේ ඒකාධිකාරියක් පවය්හ් වා ගෙන යමින් සුළු වාර්ගිකයන් තලා පෙලන හෙයින් ඉන්දියානු හා බටහිර උපදෙස් පරිදි උන්ගේ ප්රධාන සේවිකාව වන රටේ චව්ර රැජිණිය විසින් ජනතාව අකමැති රනිල් මගින් මාවෙත දෙනලද උපදෙස් පිළිගැනීමට පරම සත්ය බව මගේ ගොන් මොලයට වැටහේ එනිසා වහාම බලපැවැත්වෙන පරිදි පහත දැක්වෙන සැමරුම් […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
නලින් ද සිල‘්වා අද (2015 මැයි 17) පොළොන්නරුවේ පැවති රැස්වීමක දී මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන වැදගත් ප්රකාශ දෙකක් කර ඇත. ඉන් එකකින් කියැවෙන්නේ විධායක ජනාධිපති ක්රමය අහෝසි කරන බවට ශ්රී ල නි පක්ෂය අවුරුදු ගණනාවක් දෙන ලද පොරොන්දුවක් තමා විසින් ඉටු කරන ලද බව ය. එය සත්ය නම් මේ වන විට විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයකු සිටිය නො හැකි ය. […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
Mahinda Gunasekera May 6, 2015 His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Copy to: Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Your Excellency, Unauthorized Clearing of Forest Cover and Grazing Land in Ampara-Bakmitiyawa – Thimbirigolla Forest Reserves Further to my letter dated April 27, 2015 regarding the ‘Rape of Wilpattu’, I have now […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
By Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada It was the Buddha who, some twenty six centuries ago presented a system of moral action indicating what humans OUGHT to do if they are to escape from the malaise of suffering associated with life, leading to old age, sickness and death. The Buddha taught that because conditioned phenomena are […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
By Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Nation Sometime late last year Maithripala Sirisena effectively left the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). As predicted, he was installed as the leader of the party he ‘left’ the moment he was elected President. He became the leader of a party whose entire membership almost campaigned against him. It certainly didn’t […]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
Courtesy The Nation USAID seeks to consolidate control of Bar The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) is contemplating a change in its structure which is likely to put the organization under the control of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), according to high ranking sources of the Association. The envisaged restructuring will […]
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Saturday, May 16th, 2015
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 […]
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Saturday, May 16th, 2015
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 […]
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Saturday, May 16th, 2015
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 […]
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Saturday, May 16th, 2015
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 […]
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Posted in Forum & Letters | 2 Comments »
Saturday, May 16th, 2015
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 […]
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Saturday, May 16th, 2015
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 […]
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Saturday, May 16th, 2015
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 […]
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