Shenali D Waduge There is no better time than now to look back and recall the traitors of Lanka. Just as a terrorist is a freedom fighter to some, even traitors are somebody’s hero. It was always a case of falling prey to foreigners or seeking the assistance of foreigners to remain in power. Kuveni […]

By Charles.S.Perera The Yahapalanaya is a Nadagama- Mahadenamutta and his pupils.  Mahadenamutta had five pupils . He himself had given names to them according to their appearance. One was Indikatu Pencha – a thin tall man, Kotu Kithaiya the one who looked like a stick, his favourite was Polbe Muna who had a round face […]

By A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA. Is there a question called the Ethnic Question” in Sri Lanka? What is the difference between the people living in Sri Lanka other than people belonging to various religions, speaking different languages and belonging to different communities? The Tamil community in Sri Lanka was a community very much complacent with their […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මේ ලිපිය දිගය් එනිසා කොටස් වශයෙන් ලියා එවමි .ජාතික පුවත්පතක් ලෙස තිබු ඉරිදා දිවයිනට යවා එහෙත් වර්තමාන තත්වය යටතේ පල නොකළ ලිපියකි මේ සියලුම කොටස් කියවන ලෙස වත්මන් තරන පරපුරෙන් ඉතා බැගෑපත්ව ඉල්ලමි ල්ප්කයේ පවතී හා  පවතින්නාවූ  එකම සිංහල රාජ්‍යය ඇත්තේ වර්තමාන    ශ්‍රී  ලංකාවේය. වර්තමාන ශ්‍රීලංකාව  නම් රට වසර ලක්ෂ ගණනක සිට  මිනිස්වාසයක්ව  […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න    කණ්ඩායම් තුනක් මහින්ද නැවත බලයට ගෙන ඒමට උත්සාහ දරති .මින්  දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන  සරත්වීරසේකර වැනි කීපදෙනෙකුත් නලින්ද සිල්වා බෙන්ගමුවේ නාලක හිමි වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර හා අමරසේකර ආදී න්  ඇතුළු කණ්ඩායමට අවශ්‍ය  වන්නේ ඉන්දියාවෙන් හා බටහිරින් රට නිදහස් කරගෙන  සිංහල බෞද්ධ සන්  ස්කෘතිය  ප්‍රධාන සංරචකය වූ ද පළාත් සභා 13අ වැනි සුදු අලි යන්ගෙන් රටවිනාෂවීම […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane  HISTORY OF THE TAMIL COMMUNITY OF SRI LANKA    The small communities of Tamils and Muslims living in Sri Lanka, amount to about 24% of the total population of Sri Lanka at present (Tamils including Estate Tamils – 15%; Muslims (09%). These communities are descendants of groups of individuals, exclusively males, who arrived […]

Shenali D Waduge The British ruled parts of Sri Lanka from 1796 and the whole of Sri Lanka from 1815 to 1948. Sri Lanka marks 4 February 1948 as its day of Independence. When our history is related by the very nations that occupied us or by twisted versions from their local clones the true […]

by Senaka Weeraratna Colonialism and foreign occupation constitute crimes against humanity. They represent some of the most serious violations of national sovereignty of states and breach of international law, and in almost all colonial territories in Asia, Africa, North and South America horrendous crimes against humanity have been committed by the occupying colonial powers. The perpetrators […]

Dr.  Daya Hewapathirane   It was in the last quarter of the 20th century that the name Sri Lanka was inappropriately imposed upon our motherland, known historically for centuries as ‘Sinhale’, ‘Sihala-deepa’,   or ‘Heladiva’, all of which mean the land or island of the Sinhala or  ‘Hela’ people. According to ancient Pali chronicles including the […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා අපට 1948 පෙබරවාරි 4 වැනි දා ලැබුණු නාමික නිදහස අර්ථවත් වූයේ 1972 මැයි 22 වැනි දා ජනරජයක් වීමෙන් පසුව ය. 2009 මැයි 18 වැනි දා අපි දෙමළ ත්‍රස්තවාදය පැරදවීමු. බටහිරයෝ ද ඉන්දියානුවෝ ද ඒ පිළිබඳ ව, එකම හේතුව නිසා නොවූව ද, විරුද්ධ වූහ. ඔවුන්ට සැමදාමත් අවශ්‍ය වූයේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතිය දියකර සිංහලත්වය […]

Shenali D Waduge  One of the distinguishable traits of former colonies is the manner that politics has come to be run by family dynasties with children continuing to be scions of their former colonial masters. Combined with the family name is the silent pact to govern the country in a manner that would please the […]

Shenali D Waduge First Published on  February 4th, 2015  The British ruled parts of Sri Lanka from 1796 and the whole of Sri Lanka from 1815 to 1948. Sri Lanka marks 4 February 1948 as its day of Independence. When our history is related by the very nations that occupied us or by twisted versions […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati, 3 February:  The Ajmal Foundation has offered financial supports to five ailing journalists of Assam. Khasrul Islam, manager of Ajmal Foundation  handed over the amount totalling rupees 1,15,000 to the beneficiaries at a brief function held at Guwahati Press Club on Wednesday. The beneficiaries under the Ajmal Media Welfare Scheme include […]

Upali Jayatilaka What is RULE OF LAW? The concept of Rule of Law”, its origin, the present definitions, anomalies in the application of the concept and debates among jurist and Political Scientists as to what factors come within the definition. At present it is perceived to be a Western concept bestowed upon the rest by […]