Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.  Post traumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED) is a newly described reactive disorder. It is a special form of maladjustment reaction proposed by the German Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Linden of the University of Berlin in 2003.  PTED was introduced as a new concept for a subgroup of Adjustment Disorders. It can also […]

Shenali D Waduge While the politicians are kept busy fighting for survival in a political chessboard that finds everyone trying to check mate each other, Western imperialism is in full swing pursing with the ‘pivot to Asia’ theme nothing but imperialism aimed at militarily encircling China. No corner of South Asia will be exempt from […]

Senior U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks on  Sri Lanka at U.S. Senate(Senate – June 09, 2015) https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2015/06/09/senate-section/article/s3922-1/?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22sri+lanka%22%5D%7D SRI LANKA Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I want to speak briefly about recent developments in Sri Lanka where the new government of President Maithrapala Sirisena has taken several important and encouraging steps to […]

By Ajit Randeniya Five months of corruption-ridden maladministration under the Yahapalanaya deception has been nothing short of a national disaster. The country is floating without effective national leadership and there are no resources to meet regular government financial commitments. Work in key development projects started by the previous government has been stalled on account of […]

By P K Balachanran Courtesy The New Indian Express COLOMBO: Two former Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka, D.M. Jayaratne and Ratnasiri Wickramanayake, quit the Mahinda Rajapaksa faction in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and cast their lot with the faction led by Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. On Thursday, Sirisena appointed the defectors Special  Advisors (Political)”. […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග එල්ටීටීඊ ය විසින් නැඟෙනහිර පළාතේ පොලිසි සියල්ලටම පාහේ පහරදී පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් 600 කට ආසන්න පිරිසක් මරා දමා අදට විසි පස් වසරක් සපිරේ.   ප්‍රේමදාස රජය එල්ටීටීඊ ය සමඟ සටන් විරාම ගිවිසුමක් අස්සන් කොට තිබූ අතර පොලිස් නිලධාරීන්ට එල්ටීටීඊ යට යටත්වන ලෙස දැනුම් දී තිබිණි. කොටින් විසින් 1990 ජුනි 11 දින පොලිස් […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane  Propensity to violence and criminal activities is not a recent development among Tamils. The history of Tamil involvement in our country is marked by excessive violence, plunder, deceit and ingratitude. This particularly characterizes the history of Tamil invasions and interactions within our country from very early times. We are well aware of […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  රනිල් චන්ද්‍රිකා සහ මයිත්ත්රී   තුන් කට්ටුව  මහින්දට තරම් වෙනයකෙකුටවත් බය නැත . තමන්ගේ යහපැවැත්ම සඳහා  මහින්ද බාධාවක් නිසා  ඔහු  තුරන්  කරන්නට ඔවුන්ට    අවශ්ශ්‍යය එහෙත්  මහින්ද වටා ඇති ජන රැල්ල නිසා  කෙලින්ම මහින්ද ඝාතනය කිරීමට  ඔවුහු බිය වෙති  බටලන්දේ ඝාතන පළපුරුදු කම් ඇති වුනත්  මෙය එසේමෙසේ වැඩක් නොවන බව ඝාතකයෝ දනිති . ඉන්දියාවේත් බටහිරත් […]

Shenali D Waduge   From the UN Secretary General downwards a chorus of people are chirping reconciliation and plugging the word into every press release issued. The latest is a press release that follows secret talks between Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, a Norwegian former envoy who is besotted with the Tamil factor, South African NGO […]

Malin Abeyatunge I quote below a text extracted from Google on Goebbels Principle’. If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of […]

Bisthan Batcha 10th June 2015 Electoral reforms are not meant to satisfy political parties. They are meant to strengthen people’s representation” – Kusal Perera in ‘20A must have a Referendum’ (https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/20a-must-have-a-referendum/) The process of alienation between the two largest Communities in Sri Lanka, driven by the hegemonistic aspirations of the Upper-caste Tamils,  was set in […]

Rahul  The Butchers of Batalanda Ride Again A very timely and responsible article indeed! I wish some of the embedded journalists and intellects would wake up and take a cue from Shenali. Sri Lanka is quaking under a ruthless reign of terror; fear and dread lurk in every nook and corner of the country with […]

Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Continuation of a fascinating true to life story of Wijesim Peelige Bandiya, son of a Kandyan ‘ hack & burn’ peasant farmer, who sailed away from the Colombo harbour to the UK at a very tender age, with only three Australian pounds in his pocket, accompanied by Sir Oliver Goonatillake in […]

Ranjith Soysa Australia Attn of Mr SUBINAY NANDY Dear Sir Your ref to Northern Provincial Council as Northern Provincial Government is WRONG on all counts. In fact, such a term can only encourage and legalize separatist motives of some of the powerful elements in NPC. Please withdraw these unwarranted comment and kindly see that UN Office […]

Adaderana Former Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka D.M. Jayaratne and Ratnasiri Wickramanayake have been appointed as senior advisors to President Maithripala Sirisena on political affairs. The two veteran politicians received their letters of appointment from the President at the Presidential Secretariat last evening (10). Meanwhile the four new Deputy Ministers also were sworn in before […]

By  Asanga Abeyagoonasekera Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”John Quincy Adams Realising the extent of inequality in the present world is an aspect many sidestep. Poverty, prosperity and patterns of growth are among the top factors for this inequality. […]

by A concerned Reader. The extent of mis-information and blind faith that exists among those who hear, read and think only in Tamil  has been highlighted by the recent news from the Sevugaraya Ayyanar temple in South Poigainallur village near Nagapattinam in South India. Apparently, Prabhakaran is raised to the level of a Guardian Deity, […]

Juliana A. Spaven Press & Information Officer US Embassy Sri Lanka & Maldives January 16, 2014: Today the United States Embassy in Colombo, through its development arm, the U.S. Agency for International Development, announced its new program to support the Bar Association of Sri Lanka.  With the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, USAID will […]

Adalakderana A ‘No Confidence Motion’ with the most number of signatures in the history of Sri Lanka Parliament has been presented against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to the distress and dissapointment of the US government, it said recently. If this no confedence motion is passed in parliament, the positive changes that have taken place in […]

Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka says that his Ministry has developed a comprehensive Sri Lanka Energy Sector Plan for a knowledge based Economy for a ten year period until 2025. This is for the entire energy sector of the country minimizing our dependence on importing fossil fuel for energy generation and […]

Adaderana By any means, President Maithripala Sirisena will not interfere to take decisions in connection with the motion of no-confidence filed against the Prime Minister, General Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (UPFA) Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said. The observation was made at a press conference held at the SLFP headquarters, this afternoon (10). Yapa also […]

BY DARREN WEE  Courtesy gaystarnews.com  Sri Linka’s Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera should be arrested for voting in favor of gay rights at the UN, an MP has said. Wimal Weerawansa, leader of the National Freedom Front, said the minister had violated the country’s penal code by voting against a Russia resolution calling for the withdrawal […]

DR Sudath Gunasekara  President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement  9.6.2015. The national list, ever since it was invented by our cunning politicians had been a big joke and a travesty of the concept of democratic representation. It had been a sneaky back door for socially undesirable and unacceptable elements who cannot garner even 100 votes at […]

Shenali D Waduge If elections are held to enable eligible voters to vote for people as their choice to lead the country, there is no requirement to have another list of people entering Parliament from the backdoor. More often than not these backdoor national list entrants end up getting strategic and important portfolios and behave […]

Shenali D Waduge  Everything generally gets swept under the carpet due to legal technicalities but for us ordinary laymen it sounds rather bizarre to hear of a joint press statement issued by a UN Security Council banned LTTE front and a Member of Parliament even if entered through the backdoor on the national list! If […]

කාංචනා ප්‍රියකාන්ත -යුතුකම සංවාද කවය- www.yuthukama.com ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් වූ අප මීට වසර 6ට පෙර ඉතා බියෙන් ජීවත් වූ අවදියක් විය. බෝම්බයක් කොහේ පුපුරා යාවිදොයි නොදන්නා අවදියක්ද අපට විය. උතුරු නැගෙනහිර ත්‍රස්තවාදීන් පරාජය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් තම දිවි පරදුවට තබා සටන් කල ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවක් ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ට සිටියි. දේශපාලන උවමනා එපාකම් වලට ඇති වූ අමිහිරි යුද්ධයක් මීට හය වසරකට පෙර […]

By DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA  Courtesy Island Did you think that as a unitary state, there is only one, single government in Sri Lanka, though there are a number of Provincial Councils to which a measure of power has been devolved by that one single government? Well, not according to the United Nations and the current […]

 පරිකල්පනික අතික්‍රමණය​- වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග වින්සන්ට් ලංකාතිලකගේ අපස්මාරික ගැස්ම නැවතිනි. ඔහුගේ ශරීරය නිසල විය​. නමුත් ඔහු ගැඹුරෙන් හුස්ම ගත්තේය​. සුදු පැහැති කබායක් ඇඳ සිටි වෛද්‍යවරයා ඔක්සිජන් වැස්මක් මගින් වින්සන්ට් ලංකාතිලකට  නොකඩවා ඔක්සිජන් ලබා දුන්නේය​. ————————————————————————————————————————————- වින්සන්ට් ලංකාතිලක කැපචීනෝ කෝප්පයක් ඇණවුම් කලේය​. ඔහුගේ අතේ දාලියා ඇලෝනි විසින් සුභ පැතුම් සමග එවන ලද උපන් දින කාඩ් පතකි. […]

By Madura Ranwala Courtesy Island UPFA ex-parliamentarian A. H. M. Azwer yesterday said UNP MP cum Justice Minister should immediately renounce his ministerial portfolio as he had challenged the authority of the Speaker and Parliament by saying that the present government would not take any action on the no-confidence motion signed by 112 parliamentarians against Prime […]

Adaderana Sri Lanka’s local borrowing through government bonds has surged, surpassing the total figure for all of last year, data showed on Friday, as the new government struggles to pass crucial tax bills announced in January to finance some populist measures. The government has borrowed 378.3 billion rupees ($2.28 billion) through treasury bills and bonds […]