Shenali D Waduge It is no surprise when Britain the root cause of majority-minority conflicts, transporters of indentured laborers causing demographic issues now come forward to support self-determination claims by Tamils during local elections to muster minority votes. Some facts need to be made clear. Bids for self-determination began in Tamil Nadu far before it […]

Dilrook Kannangara Tamils are certainly recent arrivals from the area that is part of today’s Kerala and Tamil Nadu. According to the regulation No. 18 of 1806, the law applicable to The Malabar inhabitants of the Province of Jaffna” is the law of Thesawalamai. This very clearly proves Jaffna Tamils are people that came to […]

If we cant handle the errant Indian fishermen stealing our fish, poaching on our waters, ruining our marine bed…. do you seriously think our policy makers can handle a country with 1.3billion people? This is an agreement that will affect all Sri Lankans – Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burghers…UNP, SLFP, JVP, JHU,TNA, SLMC etc etc…… It […]

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 […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  M.D.   Combatants Affected by the Prolonged War The 30 year armed conflict in Sri Lanka has produced a new generation of veterans at risk for the chronic mental health problems that resulted following prolonged exposure to the war. Over 200,000 members of the Sri Lanka armed forces and police had […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Once Susantha drove all the way from Kandy to Kohuwela with his family to attend a social function his mother-in-law had organized. On the following morning he left the family in Kohuwela and went back home. In Kandy he had dinner at the Lyon Café and went to his empty […]

Major General Mrinal Suman Source: World Hindu News (WHN) While studying Indian history in school days, one was repeatedly told that the foreign invaders resorted to ‘divide and rule’ policy to gain control over India. They were painted as unscrupulous schemers who exploited the simple, trusting and gullible Indians. It is only at a much later […]

Chandani Kirinde reports Courtesy Sunday Times PORTUGUESE ENCOUNTER 500 years after the arrival of the Portuguese, a group of Sri Lankans has come together to make right what went wrong during those years of colonial occupation.  http://www.sundaytimes.lk/051204/plus/1.html It is the high point in more than two and half years of tedious and painstaking work for a […]

By Harriet Alexander, and Peter Foster in Washington A long running campaign over redacted pages of a Senate report into 9/11 which allegedly reveal Riyadh as the principle financier is gathering new momentum The Obama administration is facing renewed pressure to release a top secret report that allegedly shows that Saudi Arabia directly helped to finance the September 11 attacks. […]

හිරුණිකාගේ සිගිති ආතල් ගැන මධුමාධව කියයි

Gamini Jayasinghe  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Gautama Buddha visited Lanka for the second occasion five years after the Enlightenment and four years and three months after His first visit to Lanka to settle a dispute between Yakkhas and Nagas. The Buddha’s second visit to Lanka on a Bak Full Moon Poya Day was to quell […]

K.K.S.Perera  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Today is Bak full moon; It marks Buddha’s second visit to the island for settling a dispute between two Naga kings  -Chulodara and Mahodara. People of past generations believed in gazing the new moon, which appears 14 days before this day as a good omen. ‘Nava bag lasand dut – […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today According to ‘Ceylon’ history ancient kings had divided the country into three principalities namely, Ruhunu, Maya and Pihiti. The three kingdoms were known as ‘Tri Sinhale.‘ The last phase of the Tri Sinhale commenced after King Rajadhi Rajasinha’s death following a bitter struggle in August 1798. The main […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena’s brother, who is the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), had awarded the insurance deal of Mobitel to a company owned by someone close to him causing Rs. 3 billion loss to the Government, the Voice Against Corruption (VAC) charged today. VAC Convener and JVP Provincial Councillor […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මේ   ධනපාල මහතාගේ ලිපිය ගැ ණය ——–                       බුදු හිමි යෝ බරණැස  මුල් දෙසුමට තෝරා ගත්තේ  එය මංසන්දියක් නිසා නොවේ මුල්ම දෙ  සුම සඳහා හොන්දයය් සිතු ආලාරකාලාම ආදීන් මියගොස් ඇතිබව තේරුණා පසුව ඊළඟට යමක් තේරුම් ගතහැකි පස්වග මහනුන් ට   තම ධර්මය කියා දීම සුදුසුයය් සිතුනිසා  එතුමා ඒ ය සිටි තැනට ගියේය .තේරුම් ගතහැකිඅ  ය […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: A talk on the changing political scenario of Myanmar is organized at at Guwahati Press Club on Thursday (21 April 2016). Senior journalist from Assam, Bidhayak Das will participate in the program starting at 3 pm as a resource person. Presently based in Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, Das is […]

In 2011, Danios wrote: Courtesy WashingtonsBlog  Below, I have reproduced a year-by-year timeline of America’s wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence.  In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  හාස්‍ය රසය විශාදයෙන් පෙලෙන රෝගීන් සඳහා ප්‍රතිකාරාත්මක ක්‍රමයක් ලෙස යොදා ගැනීම සුදුසු බව වරක් සායනික මනෝ විද්‍යාඥ පද්මාල් ද සිල්වා මා සමග කීවේය​. මේ නිසා මම හාස්‍ය රසය   ප්‍රතිකාරාත්මක ක්‍රමයක් ලෙස යොදා ගැනීම සඳහා වැඩිදුර අධ්‍යනය කිරීමට කැමිලස් පෙරේරා මහතා ඇමතුවෙමි. කැමිලස් පෙරේරා මහතා අවශ්‍ය සහයෝගය දුන් අතර වෛද්‍යවරුන් ඇමතීම […]

Shenali D Waduge We have arrived at a crucial juncture. It is time to place proper arguments on the table and nullify the lies and distortions. There are some key questions that now need to be asked and answered and the GOSL must be literate enough to handle matters without simply giving in because pressures […]

Shenali D Waduge The British invaded and occupied 171 countries round the world except for 22 countries. The British and fellow colonial rulers together with the Church have left a legacy of problems the world over. Divide & rule policy, dividing communities as minorities & majority, artificial boundaries created by colonials leading to ethnic/cultural problems, […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando President Maithripala Sirisena became Sri Lanka’s 6th Executive Present with the promise  ‘not to breach the trust’ placed in him. True to his words, he has been working untiringly to bring coherence with the SLFP to develop the Country with his new concept of a mixed government of all parties, […]

by Senaka Weeraratna Attorney – at – Law British injustice in the enactment of waste land laws Kandyan peasants were made landless. They were reduced to a landless state by the take over of their lands for the plantation industry (initially coffee, then tea) by the British colonial government under a series of waste land laws commencing […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් වර්ෂයකට ලක්ෂ හතරක් පමණ පිරිසක් දඹදිව වන්දනාවේ යනෙන බවට සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛන සාක්ෂි සපයයි. ඉන්දීය රජය මේ නිසා උපයන විදේශ විනිමය ප්‍රමාණය අති විශාලය. මේ නිසාම බරණැස බුද්ධගයාව වැනි ප්‍රදේශ වලද ගුවන්තොටුපළවල් පිහිටුවා තිබේ.   වර්තමාන ඉන්දියාවේ රාජ්‍ය ලාංඡනය වන්නේ අශෝක ධර්ම චක්‍රයයි. එහෙත් එයින් ප්‍රකාශ වන්නේ ඉන්දීය ප්‍රතිපත්තිය බෞද්ධ වීම නොවේ. මායාවතී මහ ඇමතිනිය […]

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia Media Release Monday, 18 April 2016 The architects of bail-in” at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Bank of England and APRA have been exposed as liars by outspoken Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari, an advocate of breaking up too-big-to-fail (TBTF) banks. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and his cronies […]

Shenali D Waduge Over the years Indians and Chinese have migrated or were forcibly taken to work on foreign shores during colonial rule. Millions of these transported Indians and Chinese live in all corners of the world and are now treated as natives of these nations though their roots return to India or China. Tamils […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D.(Michigan State University) The Sri Lankan Economy is in the doldrums. It has been in the doldrums for long- since 1977, when we  under the advice of the IMF agreed to run the country with borrowed funds, ceded the right to determine the value of our currency and liberalized the use of […]

Dr Palitha Kohona – Former Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka and Permanent Representative to the United Nations-Courtesy – Asian Tribune – As Sri Lanka, with an administration now in power for over one year, begins to confront complex domestic and international challenges, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasingha, undertook a visit to Beijing. Unthinkable just a few months […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති෴ මෙම ලිපි මාලාවේ අටවැනි ලිපියෙන් – ඒ කියන්නේ ෆෝ-ඉන්-වන් සිංහලයෝ …” කියා නම් කළ ලිපියෙන්, සිංහල අපේ සංස්කෘතික දේහය සැකැසී ඇති ආකාරය ගැන කරුණු කිව්වා. ඒ කී ආකාරයට අපේ සංස්කෘතික දේහය සැකැසිලා තියෙන්නේ අප විසින් ම ගොඩනගාගත් දෙයින්, චෝල සහ බටහිර ආක්‍රමණ හරහා ලබාගත් දෙයින් සහ මෑත කාලයක සිට ඉන්දියාව කියන රට” ඔස්සේ […]

බෝධි ධනපාල, කිබෙක්, කැනඩාව බුදු රදුන් තමාගේ ධර්මය ගුරු කුලය රකිමින් රහසක් මෙන් තියා ගැනීමේ බමුනු වත් ගරු කලේ නැත. තම දර්ශණය මුලු ලොවටම දීමට සුදුසු අය සහ සුදුසු ස්ථාන විමසිය   බුදුරදුන් පලමු ධර්ම දේශනාව පැවත්වූයේ බරනැස් නුවරය. උන් වහන්සේ එම නගරය තෝරා ගත්තේ එය ලෝක ප්‍රසිද්ධ මාර්ග කිහිපයකම මං සන්ධ්ස්ථානය වූ හෙයින් ය. ත්‍රවිස්ට්ථාප […]

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke So economic reality dawned and the UNP leadership had to eat humble fortune cookie. China is back in the game in a major way, which is a good thing because it partially and temporarily stabilizes the economic crisis while re-balancing the island’s recently lopsided external relations. Ironically, the restored Chinese footprint […]