Shenali D Waduge People who were educated in British schools and who were taught European history and geography, neglecting native history and geography cannot see the true value of their country’s past which they view with the eyes of the foreigners.” – Ivan Minayev Our island was known as Sinhale and the people were called […]

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by C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island January 20, 2016, 12:00 pm Ven. Wimalarathana Thera stresses that what was expected of the Kathikawath (Registration) Bill was to confer legal validity to the Kathikawath of each Nikaya and Chapter and not to make any recommendations about what those Kathikawath should contain. Speaking to The Island about the […]

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Chandre Dharmawardana Canada Courtesy The Island January 20, 2016, 7:26 pm The Minister for Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media is said to have proposed a Bill to curb a number of human rights enjoyed by one section of the Sri Lankan public who are eligible to vote – namely, the Buddhist monks. For instance, they are to […]

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Editorial Courtesy The Island January 20, 2016, 7:31 pm No sooner had a Bill been presented to Parliament to discipline Buddhist monks than it was reported that some female MPs suffered sexual harassment at the hands of their male counterparts within the parliamentary premises. Minister Chandrani Bandara has undertaken to conduct an inquiry into the matter […]

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N P Wanasundera Courtesy The Island January 20, 2016, 7:24 pm Sri Lanka targets itself as a premier Theravada Buddhist country. At one time, the idea of being the foremost Theravada Buddhist country engaged in propagating the religion worldwide was mooted. Maybe this is one of the aims of the Ministry of Buddhist Affairs. Monks come […]

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වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග යූක්‍රයීනයේ රෝහල් පිරිසිදුය​. නමුත් බටහිර ලෝකයේ රටවල රෝහල් මෙන් තරු පහේ දිලිසෙන ගතියක් නම් නොමැත​. අප විනිට්සා නගරයේ පිරගෝව් රෝහල් සංකීර්ණයේ සායනික පුහුණුව ලැබුවෙමු. පිරගෝව් යනු ක්‍රිමියන් යුද්දය කාලයේ සිටි සුප්‍රකට ශල්‍ය වෛද්‍යවරයෙකි. ඔහුගේ සිරුරද බෙහෙත් ගල්වා විනිට්සා නගරයේ ඔහුට අයත් වූ විලාවක ප්‍රදර්ශනයට තබා තිබේ. මෙම විලාව හෙවත් සුවිසල් ගෘහය […]

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Dr Hector Perera       London I am sure some of you must have watched these cooking programmes in British TV where so many chefs come to cook different styles of dishes from around the world. Most of the time they show off their skills to attract the public. Sometimes they pan fry thick pieces of steak […]

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චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි වර්තමාන රජය නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම  ව්යාවස්ථාවක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම සදහා පියවර ගෙන ඇත. ඒ සදහා සාමාන්ය ජනතාවගේ යෝජනාද ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලෙස විවෘත ආරාධනාවක් සිදුකර ඇති පසුබිමක, මෙරට ජනතාව සිදිකල යුත්තේ කුමක්ද? යන පැනය සමාජය ඉදිරියේ මතුව ඇත. මෙරට ජනතාව හා  ආණ්ඩු ක්රම ව්යාවස්ථාව යනු අහසට පොලොව තරම් දුරින් පිහිටා ඇති එකිනෙකා නොහදුනන උපාඞග දෙකකි. […]

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Courtesy RT The reconstructed wreckage of the MH17 airplane is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands, October 13, 2015. © Michael Kooren / Reuters 1.1K2 A senior Russian aviation official has presented new criticisms of […]

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