ලසන්ත වික්‍රමසිංහ යුතුකම සංවාද කවය www.yuthukama.com නව රජය විසින් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය පත් කළේ ඔවුන් පවසන පරිදි විද්‍යාත්මක ක්‍රමයකටය. විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය ධූරයට අමතරව බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්‍ය ධූරයත් ලබා දුන් විට මා තුළ පසුබෑමක් හට ගත්තේය. ඒ රජය විසින් බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්‍යංශය ඉතාම විද්‍යානුකූල ලෙස ලබා දුන් බැවිනි. එකල එම විද්‍යාත්මක හේතුව මා හට දැනුනේ, එය […]

THE ONLY POLITICIAN IN SRI LANKA WHO CAN BE COMPARED TO **PRESIDENT HARRY**  IS  “THE HONOURABLE DUDLEY SENANAYAKE” Susantha Wijesinghe  Thought you’d enjoy this! It’s one you’d want your Children and Grandchildren to read. They won’t believe this happened, but it DID. Harry & Bess (Seems unreal to ever have happened opposed to realities in […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරී සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතා පසුගිය ජනවාරි 13 වැනි දින විදුසර ලිපියෙන් ජීවිතය පිළිබඳ ඊනියා අරුත ගැන තම අදහස් සම්පිණ්ඩනය කර දක්වා ඇත. එසේ කිරීම පිළිබඳ ඒ මහතාට අපේ ස්තුතිය හිමිවන අතර ඒ කරුණු අප මෙහි උපුටා දක්වන්නේ ඒ ලිපිය නොකියවූ අයට ඒ ගැන දැනුමක් ලැබීමටත් ඒ […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE BUDDHIST MONKS HATED BY BRITISH LEADERS. WHY? In the first part of the article on the Theravada Buddhist Kathikawatha, we have narrated the 227 vinaya pitaka discipline. MR Ranil Wickremasinghe’s desire to gradually deplete the value of practice of buddhism in Sri Lanka is no secret.  The desire of British […]

Harsha Perera Victoria Australia Dear Mr. Swire, I refer you to recent statements that you have made about Sri Lanka. The statements are: The UK does not specify what the constitutions of other countries should be. Reconciliation is needed for the economy to grow The UK will be training the Sri Lankan Armed Forces to be a […]

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia – Media Release You’re losing your superannuation on panicked markets because after 2008 the authorities, under orders from the banks, protected the gamblers, not the people. The banks and their political lackeys have since doubled down by cooking up the policy of bail-in”, to permanently force the people to pay—with their […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Shashika Nishamani Munasinghe, the widow of Sumith Prasanna Munasinghe (29) who died after a controversial fall from a three-storey building in Embilipitiya two weeks ago, during a clash with the police said yesterday that she seen her husband being pushed off the building. Addressing a media briefing held in Maradana yesterday […]

Courtesy Ceylontoday, Soured relationships between the echelons of the Executive reached highest levels recently with Head of the State President Maithripala Sirisena calling off his participation in two important events in the penultimate hour. The discomforts, if there were any, were not made obvious by President Sirisena or Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for the past […]

Adaderana The Inspector General of Police (IGP) is attempting to cover up the Embilipitiya incident which resulted in the death of a youth and protect former ASP in charge of Embilipitiya, D.W.C. Dharmaratne, claims the attorney representing the family of the victim. “තල්ලුකරන්න එපා” කියා සිය සැමියා කෑ ගසද්දී උඩ තට්ටුවකින් ඔහු පහලට තල්ලු කළ […]

අමෙරිකානු ඩොලරය හමුවේ රුපියලේ අගය 150 දක්වා කඩාවැටීම වළක්වා ගැනීමට නොහැකි වනු ඇතැයි පා.ම බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි.

By Dr. Abdul Ruff  Courtesy Asian Tribune The Karnataka Government has filed an appeal before the Supreme Court of India against the acquittal of Jayalalithaa by the Karnataka High Court. The Karnataka Government would open its arguments in the appeal filed against the acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, J Jayalalithaa by pointing out that it […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Without any reservations I must concede that the Buddhist clowns must be reined in, as stated by Ms. Rumpay Sera-singhe (a.k.a, Sharmini Serasinghe). In this survey of her version of Buddhism, I wish to state that I am ready to join her campaign this minute if the reining in of Buddhist […]

By Charles.S.Perera France is the country of the French, England the country of the English . Italy the country of the Italians and Germany the country of the Germans, India   the  country of the Indians, and Sri Lanka  the country of the Sinhala etc. One cannot say the same about USA as the Original Americans […]

By A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe is in a much hurry to get a new constitution formulated and as per the proposal submitted by him for this purpose in the Parliament recently, in the capacity of the Chairman of the Steering Committee to formulate this so-called new constitution, he will be dominating the […]

Dr.Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy CEYLON TODAY 19 January 2016  Yahapalana 2016 budget introduced by the Finance Minister managed to upset the hornets’ nest among the majority of the public although it was passed amidst a lot of hurly-burley and turbulences inside the House of Parliament. General public’s annoyance was marked by disruptions and various protests […]

Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement  19.1.2016 I want my readers first to have a look at the following news item immediately The Hindu 17.1. 2016 Puducherry Tamilnadu The theme of the international conference was on Challenges and Opportunities for Tamil living abroad. About 50 delegates from abroad and 150 delegates from Tamil Nadu, […]

Professor Ricardo Hausman, from Center for International Development Harvard University Tonight (Jan. 9) I am flying back from Sri Lanka to Boston after a 3 day visit. The <http://cid.harvard.edu/> Center for International Development at Harvard University (which I am so happy to lead), helped organize the Sri Lanka Economic Forum, together with the Prime Minister’s Office […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island January 19, 2016, 7:55 am  Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has spelt out how he thinks the government should set about the task of framing a new Constitution. His statement issued on Sunday coincided with a declaration by Prime Minster Ranil Wickremesinghe that the government would not allow the country to be […]

By Harischandra Gunaratna  Courtesy The Island January 19, 2016, 7:49 am Advisor to the Sangha Council, Ven. Wepathira Hemaloka Thera, yesterday said there was an international conspiracy to wipe out Buddhism from the country and the Sirisena-Wckremesinghe government had taken on the contract to help achieve that goal by enacting new laws to control the […]

Book Launch:  The Good Life An Introduction to Religion and Consciousness by Iromi Dharmawardhane was launched on 9th of January 2016 at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute by Stamford Lake Publications. The book launch attracted a full audience comprising members of the academia and NGO sector as well as students and many other interested individuals, young […]

පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නන්ගේ සාමජික නෙළුව ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයට අයත් ගිං ගඟෙහි අතු ගංගාවක් වන ආඳා දොල පෞද්ගලික කුඩා ජල විදුලි බලාගාර ඉදිකිරීම් ව්‍යාපෘතියේ නවතම ගොදුර බවට පත්වී තිබේ. මෙහි හරස් බැම්ම (weir) හා කොන්ක්‍රීට් අනුමඟෙහි (penstock) කිලෝමීටර 2.5 ක විශාල කොටසක් පාරිසරකව සිංහරාජ වනාන්තර සංකීර්ණයට අයත් දෙල්ලව වැසිවනාන්තරය තුල ඉදිකෙරෙමින් පවතී. රක්ෂිත වැසිවනාන්තරයක් තුල […]