Archive for February, 2016
Friday, February 5th, 2016
Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka was rejected by people at the election. හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අද මල්වතු මහනාහිමි හා අස්ගිරි මහනාහිමි බැහැදැකීමට ගොස් තිබේ.නුවර දළදා මාලිගාව වැදපුදා ගැනීමට ගිය අවස්ථාවේ ඒ මහතා මෙලෙස මහනාහිමිවරුන් බැහැ දැකීමට ගොස් තිබේ.
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Friday, February 5th, 2016
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa slammed the decision to sing the National anthem in Tamil. ජාතික ගීය දෙමළෙන් ගායනා කළයුතු බව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ නැති බවත්, ඉන්දියාව වැනි රටකත් ඔවුන්ගේ ජාතික ගීය දෙමළෙන් ගායනා නොකරන බවත් අප රට දැන් ක්රියාත්මක වන්නේ ඉන්දියාවේ අවශ්යතාවය අනුව බවත් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි.
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
ආචාර්ය ගොඩගම මංගල ස්ථවිර, අස්ගිරි මහා විහාරය, මහනුවර උපුටා ගැන්ම රිවිර මෙම ලිපිය ලියන මම යෝජිත විහාර දේවාලගම් පනත් කෙටුම්පත හා යෝජිත භික්ෂු කතිකාවත් පනත් කෙටුම්පත යෝග්ය ආකාරයට සකස් කිරීම පිළිබඳව වූ රැස්වීම්වලට සහභාගි වූයෙමි. ඒ එකදු අවස්ථාවක හෝ විවාදාපන්නව ඇති භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේට දණ්ඩනය පැනවීම සඳහා වූ කතිකාවත සාකච්ඡාවට බඳුන් නොකළ අතර අප දැඩි සේ කියා […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
ALI SUKHANVER According to a recent report, an estimated 68,000 people have died in the fighting and ensuing crackdown by Indian forces till now. Resentment over Indian rule in the disputed region is now mostly expressed through street protests. The people of Kashmir have to face a new kind of atrocity at the hands of […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
UPALI COORAY The Sri Lankan President in his recent interview with the BBC emphatically stated that any type of foreign participation in respect of the oncoming human rights violations inquiry is not permissible by way of external judges. investigators or in any other form.He elaborated his statement by saying Sri Lanka has enough qualified and […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ශ්රී මහා බෝධිය යනු සිදුහත් තවුසා පරම සත්යය අවබෝධ කරගන්නාවිට වැඩ උන් ස්තානයය් . එම ගස බුධ්ධියේ සංකේතයක් ලෙස බෞද්ධයන් විසින් සැලකුහ . මේ බුද්ධි වෘක්ෂයේ මුදුන් මුල සිංහල පොලවේ ”පිහිටි පස ” දක්වා සිරස් අතටත් ලොකු කුඩා පරිවාර මුල් හතර පැත්තට තිරස් අතටත් පස යටින් මෙන්ම උඩි න්ද විහිදී ගියේය බෝපත්රය […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association, Wellington , NZ I was quite moved when I listened and watched the Sri Lanka national anthem being sung in Tamil during the 68th independence day celebrations in Colombo, earlier today. I have heard recordings of this earlier and of another version of the national anthem where Tamil […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: As northeast India is preparing for the 12th South Asian Games 2016, to be held in Guwahati and Shillong on 5-16 February 2016, both the capital cities have turned into fortress under security nets. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the spectacular sporting event on Friday in presence of […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ලෝකයට ”’රජකරගෙන ” සිටි පාලකයෝ වෙනත් රටවලදී එම්ප්රදෝරු , ඒකාධිපති ආදී වශයෙන් හැඳින්විණි . එහෙත් සිංහල පාලකයෝ ”’දැ හැ මෙන් සෙමෙන් රාජ්ජය විචාල” හෝ ”’ රාජ්ජය කරවූ ”’ අ ය මිස ”රජකළ ”අ ‘ ය නොවුහ . බුදුදහම අනුසාරයෙන් මිහිඳු හිමියන් විසින් දේවානම් පියතිස්ස රජතුමාට ඉගැන්වූ මුල්ම පාඩම වුයේ රටේ පාලකයෙකුගේ ”තරාතිරම ” […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
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 […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
H. L. D. Mahindapala The loud bravado with which Ms. Sharmini Serasinghe challenged the Sinhala Buddhists to give a valid answer” to her question – a question which was aimed deliberately at denigrating the Sinhala-Buddhists – stands in stark contrast to the silence that prevails after the answer was given. (See Colombo Teleraph….) She asked […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
By Gandara John Thrice to thine and thrice to mine And thrice again to make up nine. Peace! The charm’s wound up. RW, CBK and ms, the ‘Hecatian’ trio, dance around the inflamed island as they concoct the deadly Constitutional brew. The shamans of the troika, drunk on the magic potion, blabber superlatively about the body […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane There is a strong movement today for the reinstatement or restoration of the ancient Sinha kodiya” (lion flag) as the national flag of the country. There is an outcry against the continued use of its corrupt and modified version with green and orange bands instituted in 1953. As the nation’s authentic traditional […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
By Dayan Jayatilleka ‘President Sirisena says his government will not act in haste.” This is unacceptable.’ – New York Times Editorial, Jan 28, 2016. …there is no ethnic group called the Sinhalese.” – Chief Minister Wigneswaran, Jan 19, 2016. President Sirisena has followed up his important BBC interview on accountability with a lengthier one on […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
Missaka A The question always asked is ‘what have the Sinhalese given the minorities’ and what more can they give? Why is there no question asked about what have the minorities given the Sinhalese and what else are they willing to give? Tamils came to Sri Lanka via invasions or because Tamil Nadu was too dirty […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Amazing Kidney is a precious organ in the human body Kidney is one of the main precious organs in the human body making urine, remove excess water, controls body chemicals/ toxins, controls blood pressure, keep bones healthy, help make red blood, controls mineral potassium, blood acidity […]
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