Shenali D Waduge Commencing with the ITAK in 1949 and its aims and objectives to the TULF and the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976 and the formation of the LTTE in the same year/month, to the demands made by LTTE (Thimpu Principles/ISGA as solutions) and India’s solutions (Indo-Lanka Accord/13th amendment) the similarities in the demands being […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න විසිනි අන්තර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ශිෂ්‍ය බල මණ්ඩලයේ(අන්තරේ) 1992 මැයි සිට 1993 පෙබරවාරි දක්වා කැඳවුම්කරු වශයෙන් කටයුතු කල කැලණි සරසවියේ සමාජ විද්‍යා පීඨයේ සිසු ඩබ්ලිව් එම්. විරාජ් මර්වින් පෙරේරා(47) ඉකුත් 2016 අප්‍රේල් 23 වැනිදා ජිවිතයෙන් සමුගත්තේය. අභාවප්ප්‍රාප්ත වනවිට රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන සේවයට අනුබද්ධ අනුරාධපුර සහකාර ගොවිජන සේවා කොමසාරිස් ලෙස කටයුතු කල විරාජ්ගේ අවසාන කටයුතු අනුරාධපුරයේදී […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ගල් විහාරයේ සැතපෙන බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමාවේ ශීර්ෂය පැත්තට වෙන්න නෙළලා තියෙන සිටි ප්‍රතිමාවහන්සේ ගැන විවිධ අදහස් පළකරපු කාලයක් තිබුණා. ඒ, බුදුරජාණන්වහන්සේ ගේ පරිනිර්වාණය ගැන කම්පාවෙන ආනන්ද හාමුදුරුවෝ කියලා සමහරු කිව්වා. ඒත් පරණවිතාන මහත්තයා කිව්වේ ඒ පර දුක්ඛ දුක්ඛිත මුද්‍රාවෙන් නිරූපණය කළ බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමාවක් කියලා. කොහොම වුනත් මේ ගැන දැන් කවුරුවත් වාදකරන්නේ නෑ. ඒකට හේතුව […]

Slavery –Up to 13,000 working as slaves in UK -Courtesy The Guardian Government launches strategy to end slavery as number of victims found to be up to four times higher than thought. As many as 13,000 people in Britain are victims of slavery, about four times the number previously thought, analysis for the government has found. The […]

A.A.M.Nizam – Matara It is a well known fact that the Tamil Diaspora which is very powerful in the western countries due to its voting strength were in the forefront of mustering the United States, Britain, other western countries and India to install the eunuch Sirisena as President and westernophile puppet Ranil Wickremasinghe as the […]

By Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri Courtesy The Island Two news items on the economy of the country which appeared in The Island recently prompted me to write this. One was a press release issued by the leader of an IMF team, Todd Schneider, who visited Colombo during March 31- April 11 to hold discussions with the government […]

Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya After the selection of the IGP recently an activist group known as Decent Lanka 2015 (appeared as headline news The Island) which includes journalist Kusal Perera and lawyer Srinath Perera accused the CC chaired by Speaker Karu Jayasuriya of “bluffing” the people. These are few among a lot of authoritative persons you find […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Diabetics tend to get wounds easily but  do not heal easily.  Specially these days with the sweating and dry skin, often the diabetics tend to scratch and these scratches can become chronic or take a long time to heal even with antibiotics. One of the easiest method to heal the wound […]

Samantha Ranatunga Peaceful coexistence is the most important project of our era which we cannot do in isolation, but together. The huge challenge faced by the country today at the end of the staggering war lasting for 30 long years is to bring national amity among people belonging to different races, religions and communities and […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,Dehiwela Have you noticed  how we consumers are all duped into believing that we are getting our money’s worth? The other day I bought a baby cream of a famous repetitive name, and when I opened the sealed tube and squeezed …. and squeezed and squeezed ….. well it took half the […]

By Charles.S.Perera One does not know where Sri Lanka is or which way it is going.  Since 1968 we had as national leaders, D.S.Senananayake, S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike, Sirimavo Bandaranayaike J.R.Jayawardhana, R.Premadasa, Chandrika Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapakse. What ever defects some of them had they proved to be national leaders of distinction. S.W.R.D.Bandaranayake, Sirmavo Bandaranaike  were exceptionally great […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala It is hindsight that throws insights to create and illuminate foresight. That is the beauty  and value of history. It gives meaning. It also throws up warning signs for  those with 20-20 vision to read the road map that points the way to destinations. Those who refuse to look back and […]

Courtesy The Island April 23, 2016, 8:25 pm ECONOMYNEXT, The Constitutional Council’s selection of a new IGP through a secret ballot carried out in the absence of two of the three civil society representatives was slammed Saturday as a “historic blunder.” An activist group known as Decent Lanka 2015 which includes journalist Kusal Perera and […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The newly appointed Inspector General of Police  Mr Pujitha Jayasundera  must receive the greatest accolade now  that  he holds the sword to bring back the glory of Police force in Sri Lanka. PJ  has gone through the Mill.  He is well known as a robust speaker and a honest, hardworking, […]

Senaka Weeraratna  Aims and Objectives The Animal Rights movement is destined to usher in the next great social revolution in the world. It is no longer a fringe movement. There is a gradual progression throughout history towards recognizing the rights of others. It started with the emancipation of slaves, women, children in that order. It […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, AHMADIYYA  MUSLIM  JAMA’AT – SRI LANKA On 17th January 2016, a Public Meeting was held, organized by All Ceylon Jammiyathul Ulema (ACJU) at Negombo Jumma Mosque at 4 p.m. The main speaker was Rizvi Mufthi, President, All Ceylon Jammiyathul Ulema. The news of this meeting was published in a Tamil Daily […]

Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel English as a life skill English as a life skill is a straight and simple tool of communication striped of its historical baggage, a skill for employment and a vehicle for reaching the outside world of knowledge. It has been a property owned by few elite […]

Chandre Dharmawardana Ottawa, Canada April 20, 2016, 8:46 pm (A shortened version of this article was published in The Island) In a midweek review article in The Island (April 20) Dr. V. J. M. de Silva attributes the quote “Science without religion is blind; religion without science is lame” to Einstein. Einstein quotes like “God does not play […]

Kanthar. P. Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBusAdm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng. MIEE (Ret), MIE (Aus.) CPEng, (Ret) Retired Director & Specialist Power Systems Engineer 23rd April 2016 Mr. Jeremy Corbyn MP Leader of the Labour Party House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AALondon Dear Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, MISCONCEPTION OF SELF-DETERMINATION, AND ITS NEGATIVE IMPACT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC-POLITICAL PROGRESSION FOR THE […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි සෑම දිනකම ප්‍රවෘත්ති විකාශනයන් හෝ විවිධ වැඩසටහන් ඔස්සේ අපට දේශපාලකයින්ගේ කතාවන් අසන්නට ලැබේ. ඒ කතාවල හරය ගත්විට පැහැදිලි වන්නේ එකම එක දෙයකි. එනම් තම කතාවලට සවන් දෙන ජනතාවගේ බුද්ධිය පිලිබඳව කථිකයාගේ අවතක්සේරුවයි. නමුත් මෙය හරියට කැඩපතක් ඉදිරියට ගොස් තම ප්‍රතිබිම්බය දෙස බලනවා වැනි දෙයකි. මන්ද මේ කතා තුලින් පිලිබිඹු වන්නේ කථිකයාගේ දැනුමේ දිග […]

By Paul Craig Roberts Courtesy Information Clearing House This is an English translation of an article that I wrote for the German magazine, Compact. I was encouraged by the high level of intelligent discourse that Compact brings to its readers. If only the US had more people capable of reaching beyond entertainment to comprehending the forces that […]

  Kanthar Balanathan, Australia Parochial Political Panorama As a third world country, we are superficial, and, lack in lateral thoughts and strategic vision. Most of the politicians are focused in selfish and self-centered matters only. Number of our politicians who are patriotic, and shoulder loyalty to the citizens of SriLanka, is questionable? We lost our […]

CEYLON  TODAY “HOW TO BRING UP YOUR CHILD FROM THE DATE OF CONCEPTION UP TO ONE YEAR”. English Translation by Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The late Dr. Buddhadasa Bodhinayake, was attached to Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children in Colombo as a senior Paediatrician and worked for many years in the UK for the National Health […]

 ධර්ම සිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න කම්කරුවන් යය කියන්නේ  වැඩකරන අ යට නම්  ජීවත්වීම සඳහා  වැඩකරන අපි කවුරුත්  කම්කරුවෝවෙමු .ධන හිමියා මෙන්ම ධන හීනයාද වැඩ කරය්. එහෙත් මාක්ස් වාදීන්ට  අනුව  කම්කරුවන් ලෙ සසැ ලකෙන්නේ ධනපතියා යටතේ වැඩකරන අ යය් .මාක්ස් වාදී න්යයාචාර්යයෝ  තමන්ගේ රජයක් පිහිටුවාගැනීම සඳහා  මෙසේ විග්‍රහ කරන කම්කරුවන් යොදවා ගැනීමට උ  ත්සාහ කළහ .පතල් කම්කරුවන් වැනිඅ  […]

ජනපතිවරයා පසුගියදා පොළොන්නරුවේදී කළ ප්‍රකාශය අනුව ජනතාවට පීඩනයක් ගෙන දෙන බදු ප්‍රතිපත්ති හදන ආර්ථික විශේෂඥයන් ගෙදර යවා ලබන 2 වැනිදායින් පසු ජනතාව පිට පැටවෙන බදු බර අඩුකරන හැටි රටම බලා සිටින බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව පැවසූවේ ඊයේ (20) බොරැල්ලේ පැවැති ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී ය. රජයේ සුරැකුම්පත් හා රාජ්‍ය ණය […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island April 20, 2016, 8:50 pm President Maithripala Sirisena has recently said something that media rights activists should take notice of. He is reported to have stressed, at a meeting with the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission top brass and media heads that some of the electronic media outfits breach the terms of their licences. […]

Retired Police Officer Courtesy The Island April 20, 2016, 8:44 pm The recent decision to appoint an officer of the Police Force to fill the vacancy created by Mr. N.K.Illangakoon when he retired on April 11th has drawn much flak from various quarters. The selection of Senior Deputy Inspector General, Mr. Pujitha Jayasundera, to be the […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island April 21, 2016, 8:52 pm The police super star contest, as it were, is thankfully over. It was preceded by weeks of intense lobbying and campaigning. Pujith Jayasundara has emerged the winner. Beaming from ear to ear he received his letter of appointment from President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday. It was no […]

Courtesy Tamil Guardian 23 March 2016 India’s High Commissioner Y K Sinha told reporters that a proposed economic agreement between India and Sri Lanka was proposed by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, as Sinhala opposition to the move continues. Mr Sinha told reporters that the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) proposal was put forward […]

Pathfinder Foundation: Centre for Indo – Lanka Initiatives In the recent past several articles have been published in the local press with regard to the objections by Bangladesh to Sri Lanka’s claim of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from its coast baseline made to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the […]