By Charles.S.Perera It is interesting to investigate what this New Political Culture the Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe  keeps talking about..  From what one has observed so far it is a dictatorship of the President , a police state of the lowest sort with an extended  dictatorship of the Prime Minister within a frame work of  […]

Shenali D Waduge to the greedy, nothing is of any consequence” Did Syria threaten US/UK or NATO? No. So what business do these nations have in Syria? War on Terror, removal of a ‘dictator’ and delivering democracy are the oft used excuses given. ‘Dictator’ Assad did not destroy Syria nor did he create a country […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා මේ ලිච්ඡවි රජදරුවන්ගේ යුගය නො වේ. මේ මෝදි යුගය යි. මෝදි යුගය ලිච්ඡවින්ට අවුරුදු දෙදහස් හයසියයකට පමණ පසුව ඉංගිරිසි යුගයක් නේරු යුගයක් හා ගාන්ධි යුගයක් පසුකර පැමිණ ඇත්තකි. ඉංගිරිසින්ට පෙර තවත් යුග ගණනාවක් චෝල, චේර පාණ්ඩ්‍ය, මූගල් ආදී වශයෙන් ද අපි පසුකර ඇත්තෙමු. එයට අමතර ව ධර්මාශෝක යුගයක් ද අපි පසු කෙළෙමු. […]

By Udaya Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today There is a specific objective of introducing the National List in the Constitution of 1978. It is to get important people who are reluctant to contest elections involved in the policy formulation and law making process. Professionals, academics and leaders of insignificant communities such as Malays, Burghers, Vedda and disabled people […]

Prof. Hudson McLean An apt parallel to analyse the politics in Sri Lanka in a Global Theatre.  However, this is No Situation Comedy, but a Real Global Control Exercise by One Player. Are the Global powerhouses trying to make the Mixed Pickle into a Sweet & Sour, or Spicy & Hot, or a Mango Chutney, […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara. Mahanuwara (SLAS) President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 5.9.2015. Mr. President and Mr. Prime Minister please name and gazette all the 225 Members of Parliament, both elected (196) and selected by you under the so-called national list (29), immediately as Cabinet Ministers without wasting your valuable time and energy over such a tedious […]

by S.R. Ramaswamy Courtesy:  Indiafacts This is a translation of the original essay by S.R. Ramaswamy that appeared in the September 2015 issue of the Kannada monthly, Utthana. Translated by Sandeep Balakrishna. Nalanda University was established as an university of eminence in Bihar during the period when both Sanatana Dharma and Buddhism were at their peak. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Magisterial inquiry with respect to the floating armory of the Avant Garde Maritime Services (Pvt) Ltd has been terminated after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) apprised the Court that it would not proceed with the case under AG’s advice. The Galle Magistrate last week also lifted the foreign travel ban imposed on […]

Abdul Qadir, Courtesy:  Times of India GAYA: At least 40 Mahadalit families on Thursday converted to Christianity at a special baptism ceremony at Atia village near Bihar’s Bodh Gaya. Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who is a Mahadalit as well, was busy in foundation laying and inauguration ceremonies at his village Mahkar in Gaya district […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati:  Eminent educationist Professor Srinath Baruah on 5 September 2015 urged the media outlets of Assam to use accurate Assamese words and correct sentences in various items, which are made available to the reader-audience-viewers. Interacting with the scribes at Guwahati Press Club, Prof Baruah also emphasized on maintaining the beauty of Assamese […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. (පැරණි ලිපියක් යලි ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නේ, ඒ අවශඅයතාවය තදින්ම දැනෙන බැවණි) Posted on January 22nd, 2011 අපි කාලාන්තරයක් මුළුල්ලේ විශාල අරගලයක් නිරතවූවෝ වෙමු. ඒ අරගලය ජයග්‍රහහීව නිමව, මේ වනවිට අවුරුද්දකුත් මාස හයක කාලයක් ගතවී ඇත. මේ වනවිට ජයග්‍රහණය උදෙසා යුද්ධය මෙහෙය වූ නායකයා රටේ පාලන බලය මෙහෙයවමින් සිටියි. නමුත් ස්වභාවයේ ධර්මතාවන්ට අනුකූලව, සෑම […]