Hot News Another person injured during the shooting incident at Bloemendal Road last Friday has succumbed to his injuries. The injured person was receiving treatment at the National hospital at the time of his demise. The deceased has been identified as B. Niroshan Sampath (30) Army Sampath the underworld leader who was a resident of […]

This cartoon sealed the fate of the UNP in 1956 It depicted Sir John Kotelawala riding an elephant (the symbol of the UNP) pointing a spear at the Buddha statue. Accompanying Sir John was people dressed in western garb drinking and dancing (Western Liberalism slowly attempting to remove the Buddhist cultural heritage of Sri Lanka) […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s geopolitical positioning has been both a blessing and a curse. Despite 17 invasions from South India, 3 Christian Western colonial occupations over 410 years at no time did Sri Lanka fall except to be handed over to the enemy by local traitors – Alas the same appears to be unfolding […]

JANAKI CHANDRARATNA – PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Sri Lanka is once again at ‘crossroads’ that can have an impact on its future. Unlike in previous instances, the path that can be taken is seriously muddied by the political and social dynamics of the present environment. Although the stage is set for another election, the electorate is […]

By Garvin Karunaratne Ph.D.(Michigan State University) Greece, once a mighty country, is now in the dog house, with its economy in  tatters, its rulers begging the Troica- the IMF, the EU and the ECB for funds to subsist.  The writer about a decade and a half ago visited Greece, clocking some 5000 miles, wandering all […]

Dharshan Weerasekera The TNA Manifesto published on 26 July 2015 reiterates the demand for a Federal arrangement of Government in Sri Lanka.  This is not surprising.  The TNA’s main constituent, the Illangai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) has been demanding a ‘Federal’ system since the late 1940’s. The United States and India, meanwhile, have explicitly stated […]

Harvey Perera   Brief history of India: India was just a collection of small kingdoms almost up to 1947. The Portuguese came to India in 1498 and then the East India Company took over from 1757-1857. The rebellion in India in 1857 was brutally put down by the British and the British crown took over the […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Shakespeare “was not of an age, but for all time! –Ben Jonson The eminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare was a Renaissance dramatist. Shakespeare was unique in the range of his insights into the human mind (Heaton, 2011). Shakespeare knew the deep psychology” of humanity (Tung, 2007). Therefore he can be considered as one of the grand Renaissance Psychologists. Shakespeare was one […]

-සුරකිමු ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංවිධානයේ පණිවිඩයකි  කුමන්ත්‍රණයේ පසුබිම ඇමෙරිකාව ප්‍රමුඛ ඇතැම් බටහිර රටවල් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බෙදුම්වාදී ත්‍රස්තවාදය පෝෂණය කිරීමට කටයුතු කළහ.එම බලවතුන් යුද්ධයේ තීරණාත්මක මොහොතක ප්‍රභාකරන්ට අභයදානය දෙන ලෙස මහින්දට නියෝග කළහ .එම නියෝග නොතකා මිලියන 20 ක ජනතාවගේ ජීවිත ආරක්ෂාව වෙනුවෙන් අභීත තීරණ ගැනීමේ වරදට ඔවුන්ගේ උදහසට ලක්වන්නට මහින්දට සිදු විය. යෝධ සංවර්ධනයක් රට තුල […]

-ඉසුරු ප‍්‍රසංග මූලාශ්‍ර – (බිදුණු වම් අත – ජවිපෙ නිරවි මර්දනයට පසුවදනක් කෘතිය- ඉසුරු ප‍්‍රසංග) මේ ලිපියෙහි දක්වා ඇත්තේ යුධ ජයග‍්‍රහණයේ තීරණාත්මක කාලවකවානුවලදී ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ ඊට එරෙහිව කටයුතු කළ ආකාරය පිළිබඳ උදාහරණ කීපයකි. මේ පිරිස අද හෘද සාක්ෂියක් ගැන කියමින් නැවතත් මැතිවරණයකට ප‍්‍රවේශ වී තිබේ. පසුගිය වසර කීපය තුළ තමන්ගේම ස්වයං විනාශකාරී තීන්දු තීරණ හරහා […]

Please ask your friends and relatives in Sri Lanka to attend it. Please ask your friends and relatives in Sri Lanka to attend it. Dress in white if possible. This is an event organized by nationalist organizations(Not the SLFP) to show MR’s mass appeal in order to influence the floating voter. Please share it with […]

Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Ranil’s dishonesty gets worse by the day. But even more startling perhaps is his brazen hypocrisy. And what seems to be open mockery of the President. There have been multiple allegations of corruption with regard to the last government, but most were generalizations. There was in fact only one clear instance cited […]

Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Second instalment of roadscam, you might like also to question the Secretary who was suddenly dismissed, Mr Udaya Seneviratne, and perhaps the Chinese Embassy too about the earlier and curent projects, since the Prime Minister claims that the EXIM Bank of China will be funding this project too Dealings of the current […]

Lankan Puravesiya Ten years from now how would Sri Lankans reflect back on August 17th 2015. It’s true that August 17th has not passed yet, but no one can ignore the supreme significance of this day. If there is a living soul on Sri Lankan soil that thinks August17th will just be another day under […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today General Secretary of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Susil Premajayanth told Ceylon Today that they will not accept 13+ as a solution to the ethnic issue through the UPFA Election Manifesto because 13+ was no longer a valid option. He said the Alliance will only accept as solutions for the ethnic […]

By Malinda Seneviratne A question was asked from the former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, during his final breakfast meeting with media heads last year.  ‘Who is your real opponent, Maithripala Sirisena, Ranil Wickremesinghe or Chandrika Kumaratunga?’  He did not hesitate in responding: ‘Chandrika!’ This became the lead story in all newspapers the following day.  The headline […]

By Madura Ranwala Courtesy:The Island Investigations had revealed that two underworld criminals wanted by police in connection with many criminal activities had returned to the country to do political work for a government politician and they had been the target of yesterday’s shooting at Bloemendhal Road, Kotahena, a senior police officer told The Island last night. […]

CHAKRA— Why are so many religious conversions in India going unnoticed?  The majority of the population there is quick to point out that Hindu Fundamentalists have done….,” or that The BJP, Hindu Nationalist Party is fanatical,” when such parties bring to attention the problem of forced conversions in the country.  All citizens of India who […]

Norm Phelps   June 15, 2007 The Dalai Lama Thekchen Choeling P.O. McLeod Ganj Dharamsala H.P. 176219 India By mail and email to: ohhdl@gov.tibet.net Dear Sir: I am writing to you with great sadness. By way of introduction, or actually re-introduction, I am the author of The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights, a copy […]

 Our Correspondent Guwahati: The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) in association with Indian Women’s Press Corps, Delhi Union of Journalists, Press Club of India (New Delhi), Mumbai Press Club and Indian Federation of Working Journalists  have organized a two day national consultation on media freedom and the law on 8 & 9 August next. To […]

Kusal He was an evangelical believer of an “anti UNP” Left and still claims he’s working for an alternate Left, as a leading theoretician of the Wame Kendraya. His Selfish Evolution Stayed with the LSSP while the LSSP was with MR government on the pretext he was fighting for a “Left” alternative within LSSP Ganged up […]

Shenali Waduge Sri Lanka is at a crucial juncture. The situation is far more dangerous than the 3 decades of terror that prevailed. It is such an intense situation that calls for all politicians to set aside their self-centred political ideologies and cunning to realize the thin line we are treading on and the abysmal […]

Adaderana Deputy Minister Thilanga Sumathipala says that although the Elections Commissioner had promised to conduct a free and fare election, Finance Minister Raci Karunanayake has been able to unleash terror in the city of Colombo. Addressing a media briefing in Colombo today, the Deputy Minister of Skills Development stated that the UPFA government had managed […]

By Concerned Sri Lanka Diaspora Northern Provincial Government?” The UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka’s reference to Northern Provincial Council as Northern Provincial Government UN interference in the internal matters in Sri Lanka, Establish and operationalize processes for building peace    through reconciliation and accountability by addressing the critical core grievances of minorities in an […]

Ira de Silva London Reference  the statement by the Deputy Foreign Minister on the TNA manifesto. The TNA, which acted as a proxy for the LTTE,  continues to support the division of Sri Lanka and the establishment of Eelam in the northern and eastern provinces supported and funded by the pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora. The problem with […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ජවිපෙ තහනමින් පසු 1987 මුල්භාගය වනවිට වෘත්තීය සමිති ව්‍යාපාරයේ තරුණ රැඩිකල් කම්කරුවන් අතරත් දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදයට එරෙහි සරසවි සිසුන් සහ තරුණයින් අතරත් ජවිපෙ මුළු ශක්තියම වාගේ රැදී තිබිණි. කම්කරුවන් අතර ඒ වෙනුවෙන් 1986 ජුනි 8  ජනතා සටන් පෙරමුණ දෙමටගොඩ වෙළෙඳ සංකීර්ණය භූමියේදී සහ පළාත් සභා යෝජනාවලට එරෙහිවන්නන් සඳහා මව්බිම සුරකිමේ ව්‍යාපාරය 1986 ජුලි 26 […]

Shenali Waduge Abrahamic religions and the violence, expansionism and advocacy of conversion are things that cannot be kept hidden or denied. Spreading the good word” has led to purging of territories and their wealth and excommunicating natives and their unique cultures. Current fears associated with the repetition of past colonial crimes need empathy in view […]

by  Senaka Weeraratna PREFACE Buddhism which has been the moral and spiritual force in Sri Lanka in the last 2500 years, having survived a prolonged period (nearly 450 years) of persecution and discrimination directed at its adherents under western colonial rule, now faces a serious challenge from a growing Christian evangelical movement, represented mostly by […]

උතුරේ යාපනය දිස්ත්‍රික්කයට එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයෙන් තරග කරන විජයකලා මහේෂ්වරන් මහත්මිය ඇතුළු එජාප අපේක්ෂකයින් තම මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ඊළාම් සිතියම යොදා ගෙන ඇත. මොවුන් ශ්‍රීලංකා සිතියම විකෘති කරමින් ඊලාම් නියෝජිතයින් ලෙස මැතිවරණයට සහභාගී වනබව ඔවුන්ගේ මැතිවරන ප්‍රචාරක කටයුතුවලින් පෙන්නුම් කෙරේ. අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ඡායාරූපය ද මෙම ඊළාම් සිතියම සමඟ ප්‍රදර්ශණය කොට තිබේ. […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා ජ වි පෙරමුණේ නව නායක අනුර දිසානායක තරුණයකු නොවූවත් ජ වි පෙරමුණ එ ජා පක්‍ෂයේ තරුණ සංවිධානය වෙයි. ජ වි පෙ ග්‍රාමීය පක්‍ෂයකට වඩා අද දින නාගරික බාග හා කාල් උගතුන්ගේ පක්‍ෂයක් බවට පත් වී ඇත. එදා ජ වි පෙ කාල්   (1/4) මාක්ස්වාදී  පක්‍ෂයක් විය. අද එය මෙරට කාල් උගතුන්ගේ පක්‍ෂයක් […]