Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe’s allegation that there are undisclosed loans and liabilities of my government which are only now coming to light is a complete falsehood, Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in a statement today. In a press release Rajapaksa added, State owned enterprises engage in commercial activities and they have their own […]

 වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග සාජන් ” ඔව් සර් ” මෑන්ව ගන්ඩ එදා ගිය රාලහාමිලා දෙන්නත් දාගන්ඩ බණ්ඩාරට කියන්ඩ  වාහනේ පිටිපස්සටකරලා නවත්තන්ඩ කියලා  ” ඕකේ සර්” මල්ලි සර් කිව්වා ඔය දෙන්නටත් අද එන්ඩ කියලා මෑන්ව කූඩුවෙන් ගන්ඩ අත් පිටිස්සට කරලාමාංචු දාන්ඩ ” හරි සාජන් මහත්තයා” බැද්දේ පළයං මං එන්නං.  සාජන් මහත්තයා අද මට පොඩි දත් කැකුමක් තියනවා අද මාව තියලාප්‍රියන්තව ගෙනියනවද ? රත්නේ දතේ අමාරුව පුකේ අමාරුව නෙවෙයි හරියට ඩියුටිය කරපං  සාජන් මහත්තයා මීට කලිං මම කොච්චර ඇවිල්ලා තියනවද මේ වගේ ගමං. මේකයි කාරනේ සාජන් මහත්තයා, වයිෆ්ට ළමයෙක් හම්බ වෙන්න ඉන්නවා. මම දැං හරක් මස් වත් කන්නේ නැහැ.මම මේ දවස් ටිකේ ස්ටේ‍ෂන් එකේ රාජකාරි කරන්නද ?” මේ උඹ මගෙන් කුණුහර්ප අහගන්නැතිව බැද්දයා එක්ක ගිහිල්ලා අරූව ජීප් එකට දාගනින්.   උඹටඩියුටිය කරන්ඩ බැහැ කියනව කියලා මම සර්ට කියන්ඩද ? හරි හරි සාජන් මහත්තයා මම එන්නං කවදා හරි දවසක මේවා පබ්ලික් වෙලා අපිටත් කේස්වැටනොත් සාජන් මහත්තයාම අපි වෙනුවෙං උත්තර දෙන්න ” මේ තෝ මගේ යකා අවුස්සන්නේ නැතුව අරූව ජීප් එකට දාගනිං. ආවා මෙතන නීති කතා කරන්ඩ” හරි හරි සාජන් මහත්තයා ඕකට කෑගන්න එපා මම එන්නං” බැද්දේ හරිද වැඩේ , කෝ මූ තාම සෙල් එකේනේ . අඩෝ මෙහාට වරෙං , ඒයි උඹලා පස්සට වෙලාඉඳපල්ලා. බැද්දේ මූට මාංචු දාපං , ඉක්මං කරපං සාජන් මහත්තයට තද වෙලා ඉන්නේ.  සර් මාව කොහේ ගෙනියන්න ද ? කෑගහන්නේ නැතුව හිටපං උඹෙන් තව කට උත්තරයක් ගන්න තියනවා ” අනේ සර් මම ඔක්කොම කිව්වනේ. වෙපන් එක චුල්ලේ ලඟ මීගමු ගියොත් දැන් ඌව අල්ල ගන්නපුළුවන්. හරි හරි ඒකට තමයි අපි යන්නේ කට වහගනිං” බැද්දේ ශේප් එකේ පිටිපස්සට ගෙනිහිල්ලා මූව වාහනේට දාපං,  දැන් සරුත් එනවා. සාජන් හරිද වැඩේ? හරි සර් පොර වාහනේ” ඔකේ එහෙනං දැන් පිටත් වෙමු  ආ කස්ටිය හරිද ? හරි සර් […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera They say that fish keep going around the tank wall because he forgets where he was  >>>>> > We Sri Lankans are also like fish January 2015 people were fed with information about nepotism and corruption –Now forgotten Millions in Dubai –now forgotten Sunday leader’s murder –Forgotten Kollonnawa garbage problem during heavy […]

politicslk By liner:  Sri Lanka’s Separatist Armed Conflict was the result of two giants vying for regional power, but was prolonged due to our inefficiency and lack of commitment to take appropriate action, charge Hemachandra, a former Navy top ranker. Sarath Hemachandra is a typical Sri Lankan expatriate living in Australia. His brain is with […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.  -D. H. Lawrence   Author D.H. Lawrence is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Lawrence has […]

මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ (පා.ම) හිටපු ජනාධිපති යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ විදේශ ණය අර්බුදය ගෞරවනීය මහා සංඝරත්නයෙන් අවසරයි. සියළු ආගම්වල පූජකතුමනි, මන්ත්‍රීවරුනි, මිත්‍රවරුනි, වැට්බද්ද වැඩි කරන්න, ආදායම් බදු වැඩි කරන්න හා ප්‍රාග්ධන බද්දක් හඳුන්වා දෙන්න සිදු වුණු කාරණා විස්තර කරමින් අගමැතිවරයා පසුගිය සතියේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට කළ විශේෂ  ප්‍රකාශයේ දී එතුමා කිවුවා මගේ ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ගත්ත ණය ගෙවන්න මේ බදු පනවන්න වුණා කියලා. […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala I wish to forward the following e-mail I received from Mr. Ramachandra Sunderalingam, the Police Superintendent of Jaffna when the Maviddipuram revolt of the low-castes was at its peak. I think this letter has value for research students digging deep into the caste issue in Jaffna. It  is an insightful first-hand […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි හිටපු ජනාධිපතිණි චන්ද්රිකා කුමාරතුංග ම හත්මිය පසුගියදා අපූරු කථාවක් සිදුකලාය. ඒ මෙසේය. “අපි දැක්ක පහුගිය අවුරුදු 9යේ, 10 වෙච්ච දේවල්, ව්යාපෘති කරනවා කියල කරපු දේවල් කලේ නැහැ කියන්නේ නැහැ. ඒ ව්යාපෘතියට යා යුතු වාගේ දෙකහමාරක මුදලක්, වැඩියෙන් දාලා ඉතිරි එකහමාර ඒගොල්ලන්ගේ සාක්කුවට දාගන්නවා. නොරොච්චෝලෙ ගැන මට කථාවක් තියෙනවා, මම නොරොච්චෝලෙට අත්සන් තැබුවේ. […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පසුගිය කුජ දා තවත් විශේෂ ප්‍රකාශයක් කෙළේ ය. ඔහු යම් දිනෙක සාමාන්‍ය ප්‍රකාශයක් කිරීම විශේෂයක් වනු ඇත. කෙසේ වෙතත් කුජ දා කුජ හෙවත් අඟහරු ග්‍රහයාගේ (පඬියන්ගේ දැනගැනීම සඳහා ග්‍රහ වස්තුවේ නොව) දිනය වෙයි. අඟහරු යුද්ධයට අධිපති ග්‍රහයා වෙයි. රනිල්ලා දෙමළ ජාතිවාදයේ ත්‍රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව කළ මෙහෙයුම් (පඬියන්ට අනුව යුද්ධය, එහෙත්– […]

By Charles .S.Perera Chairman, The Committee of Public Representations on the Constitution(CPRC) Secretarial Office, Staple Street, Colombo 2, Dear Sir, CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS I hesitated to write before on the wisdom of writing a new Constitution to Sri Lanka at the present moment, as I am not quite sure of the independence of the Committee of […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති෴  ඉන්දියාව කියන්නේ අලූත් රටක් කියන එක පැහැදිළියි. ඒ වගේ ම දැන් අපි දන්නවා, මේ අලූත් රටේ තියෙනවා කියලා කියන පොදු සංස්කෘතික ඇවැතුම් පැවැතුම්වලින් බොහෝමයක් දිල්ලි සුල්තාන්, මූගල් ආභාෂයෙන් ගොඩ නගාගත් දේ බව. පර්සියානු, අරාබි සහ තුර්කි දායාද පැරැණි බ‍්‍රාහ්මණ ආගමේ අලූත් අර්ථදැක්වීම් එක්ක මිශ‍්‍ර කරලා තමන්ට ම අනන්‍ය වූ සංස්කෘතික ලෝකයක් ගොඩ. නගාගන්න […]

Sudath Samarasinghe This is a response to Dr. Carlo Fonseka’s rejoinder on 3rd March in The Island, to a letter by Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera earlier, the on the subject of singing the national anthem Tamil language. I believe matters such as national anthem are emotional issues where logic does not play much of a role […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando An amazing story of the former British Energy Minister Chris Huhne has been exposed to the world by the Western media for lying and getting an eight month jail sentence by the Southwark Crown Court in London last week. This coincides with a controversial issue surrounding ‘lying’ by the Minister […]

 P.A.Samaraweera, Melbourne According to a media report the govt and the opposition had approved a range of allowances for MP´s. Based on this,  MP´s are to be paid Rs. 75,000 to maintain an office, Rs. 50,000 for calls, and Rs. 50,000 as a housing allowance. They are also to be paid Rs 2500 for attending meetings and Rs […]

By, Professor Nishan Wijesinha ( Ethul Kotte, Kotte. ) It was my great grandfather Mudaliya Louis Corneille Wijesinha; who was an Imperial British Colonial Genius Scholar who translated the first original manuscripts of the Great Mahavamsa from Pali to English who inspired the need and wrote down the following diagram and highlighted the borders with […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela There is this story of a king who had a minister who used to say for everything, that there must be something good in it. Once the king happened to cut his finger off by mistake while cutting a fruit and the minister said there must be something good coming out […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala In the  two preceding articles I traced the crisis faced by the Vellahla ruling elite of Jaffna in the sixties. The low-castes staged organised threats for the first  time challenging the supremacy of the Vellahlas. They not only threatened to enter the sacred domain of the Maviddipuram Temple – a domain […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  Democracy  is Good Governance  sans Electricity in whole of  in Sri Lanka   ??? !!!!!!!! Do you remember what Lenin said in 1917 and after .He wanted the country to  have  interrupted electricity in whole of Soviet Union . What is happening in Sri Lanka today is not a very good sign ………Opposition […]

By Garikai Chengu Countercurrents.org http://www.countercurrents.org/chengu020713.htm Contrary to the Westernized popular belief that Zimbabwe is synonymous with ‘Mugabe’s dictatorship’, it is one of Africa’s most democratic states. If Robert Mugabe is indeed a dictator, he has a peculiar way of showing it: the President liberated Zimbabwe from white minority rule and established a thriving parliamentary democracy, which […]

Garikai Chengu Courtesy  Herald.co.zw THIS week marks the 90th birthday of one of Africa’s greatest leaders: Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe. When Europeans came to Africa toward the turn of the 15th century, they found a prosperous civilisation of enormous wealth. Agriculture and cattle rearing, pottery, iron-work, fisheries, salt-mining, gold refining and ornament making, weaving, hunting, and […]

Dr Sarath Obeyskera I think all Sri Lankan should try to be self-sufficient and not to depend on any supplied and provided infrastructure and social benefits .This is the lesson we should learn by looking at what happened yesterday with power and water supply. What will happen if fuel supply to the whole country is […]

Lt Col (Retd.) A.S.Amarasekera 2nd March 2016. A country is governed by convention or by adhering to a Constitution. When our colonial masters namely the British granted independence to Ceylon they introduced a Constitution better known as the Soulbury Constitution to govern independent Ceylon. Though a Constitution was formulated and introduced by the British to […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think’st him wronged and mak’st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts. – Othello , the eponymous hero of the Shakespeare play of the same name The political stability that Sri Lanka enjoyed for a brief five years after the conclusion […]

Shenali D Waduge We are watching a miscarriage of justice unfold if we remain silent to the irregularities, illegalities, irreversible and irreparable damage likely to take place. Sri Lanka must not agree to any Tribunal that only covers 3 months or the last phase and ignores the whole period of the conflict. This is an […]

By : A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA When in the opposition the ruffians who self-proclaimed as great economists of the UNP cabal and the western puppet Ranil Wickremasinghe blamed that the former President Mahinda Rjapakse’s government was ruining the economy of the country, pawning the country to China and found China as a ghost devouring every development […]

By Gandara John When reputed and responsible main stream media started flailing the Government for its shameless betrayal of the country on 01 Oct 15, not many realised that the modern day Pharisees had driven a hard bargain with Sri Lanka’s Judas; the ‘30 pieces of Silver’ did not change hands for nothing and the transaction, […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka has become the new money laundering capital. Hackers around the world deposit money in Sri Lanka, launder it and transfer it as good money. Recently $20 million was laundered in Sri Lanka. Today Sri Lanka is truly the Plunder of Asia! Sri Lanka also welcomes well known financial crooks, unnamed dubious […]

Sarath Wijesinghe Former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority, Former Ambassador to Israel and United Arab Emeritus World population heading for a disaster World population is heading for a disaster due to excessive use of antibiotics. Unless preventive measures – though difficult – steps are taken immediately to contain the worldwide man made epidemic world is facing […]

By Afshain Afzal  Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) decided to include Hezbollah on the GCC’s list of terrorist organizations on 3 March 2016. This was followed by Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Arab League at Cairo, which on 11 March 2016, formally declared Hezbollah group a terrorist organization. In addition, during the meeting, Saudi Arabia also […]

 නලින්ද සිල්වා  ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරී සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතා පසුගිය මාර්තු 03 වැනි දා ලිපියෙන් කාල නීර්ණය ගැන කතාවකට ද මග පාදා ගෙන ඇත. අප ඒ මහතාගේ සුදුසුකම් සෑම ලිපියක ම මුල සඳහන් කරන්නේ ඒ මහතා ඇගයීම සඳහා ය. ඒ මහතා තම ලිපි අවසානයේ දී තම සුදුසුකම් අපට නිතර නිතර මතක්කර දෙන්නේ […]