Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent. Gloucester, Ontario,  Canada 14 June 2016 Hon. Maithripala Siresena President Republic of Sri Lanka Colombo, Sri Lanka CC;Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Dear President Sirisena: ColomboPage of June 8, 2016 told us that Sri Lanka President vows to eradicate LTTE ideology which is still present locally and […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) 12.6.2016 I am addressing this note to you as a concerned citizen of this country as I have a birth right to bring these serious matters concerning the State to the Head of the State who is responsible for the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of this country and the […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala One of the main obstacles standing in the way reconciliation, based on a reasonable and lasting solution, is the refusal of the Jaffna Tamils to face the realities of their history. By and large, the average Tamil knows  only two kinds of history : 1. a distorted view of the Mahavamsa […]

Drafted by Lt. Col. (retd) Jayantha de Silva MAHAJANA VIYAWASTAWA II (The People’s Constitution) Preamble WE, the PEOPLE OF SRI LANKA, convinced that the Constitution of 1978, as amended from time to time, has departed from the high ideals of Nationhood and of TRUE DEMOCRACY, resulting in eroding the people’s aspirations for the country, decree that the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The public wanted to know why the government took so long to defeat the LTTE.  Why had they not won the war when the LTTE was much weaker? If the LTTE had been defeated earlier, then many lives could have been saved. The armed forces knew the strategies needed to defeat them. They […]

අනුර සෙනවිරත්න මෙම ඇත්ත අපට එලියෙන් තේරුනබව ඇගෙඋවට උත්සන්න රෝග මමත්වය නිසා ඇත්ත හරියට නොතේරී ජාතියම අසරනවි ඇත. එය අප වරදකින් නොව දසකයන්තුල අපේ ජාතිකත්වය පාගා එක රටක එක ජාතියක් යන ලෝක පාලන සිද්දාන්තය උල්ලංගනය කරන බහු බූත බහු ජාතික අපරාදෙ ලොව එකම සින්හෙල ජාතික රටේ වැපිරිය. තමාගෙ සොබාදම් ජාතිය යටපත් කලවිට මිනිසා අන්ත මමත් […]

විනාඩි කිහිපයක් වැය කර මෙය නරබන්න

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  2005 වසරේ මම ශ්‍රී ලංකා යුද හමුදාවේ වෛද්‍ය බළකායේ සාජන්වරයෙකු සමග මම හමුදා ඩබල් කැබ් රථයකින් යාපනයේ ගමන් කරමින් සිටියෙමි. “සර් මෙන්න මෙතනදී තමයි  2000 දී අපේ කොල්ලෝ එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ එකේ ඇටෑක් එක රිවස් කලේ . එදා එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ එකේ ඇටෑක් එක සාර්ථක උනා නම් යාපනේ වැටෙනවා හමුදාවේ 40,000 කගේ ජීවිත අණතුරේ  ” […]

 By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Asian Development Bank (ADB) appreciates the ‘successful political transition’ in Myanmar’s development in the recent past and assures all possible supports in promoting education, quality jobs and enhance infrastructures in the southeast Asian country. The ADB president Takehiko Nakao recently met with Myanmar’s President U Htin Kyaw and the Burmese foreign […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Various institutions within a society, be it the government, political or any other group, have the power to shape media material to a particular viewpoint. The other side of the coin would be that the media is quite capable of inspiring society as much as the institutions, simply […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera -Ex Chairman SLLRDC  It is high time that authorities get some advice from experts regarding canal bank relocation to avoid floods . BY 1995 over  10,000 unauthorized  families were evicted from canal banks and since then same people or new people have again settled .along the banks ,then cry foul when they get […]

MEN & EVENTS BY Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today One of the definitions of democracy is that it is a form of government usually corresponding to a top-down approach to democracy as seen from the ruler’s point of view. In this view the so-called ordinary people or citizens are considered as politically incompetent and it is argued […]

By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy Ceylon Today Former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, speaks his heart out about his commitment towards the war heroes and stated they need to be protected from being investigated by the international community on alleged war crimes. Gotabaya, who is anticipating that Donald Trump will win the US […]

lanka C news ජපානයේ ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයින්ගේ ආරාධනයට හිටපු ජනපති ජපානයේ සංචාරයක. හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා මේ දිනවල යෙදී සිටින ජපාන සංචාරයේදී ඉහල පිලිගැනීමක් ලබා දෙමින් තිබේ. ඔහු සහභාගී වන ජනහමු සඳහා ජපානයේ වෙසෙන ශ‍්‍රී ලංකිකයන් ඉමහත් උදෙයා්ගයෙන් යුතුව සහභාගී වෙමින් සිටිති.   41,602 Viewers

Dr Hector Perera     London Cooking is not difficult at all, it’s a matter of getting used to it then it becomes quite easy. We have to eat so some people get some people employed for cooking than they get involved in cooking. Back in Sri Lanka some poor women become Kussi Ammas” or servant women […]

A Sri Lankan Citizen Courtesy The Island June 13, 2016, 7:43 pm As very correctly highlighted in the editorial of The Island of 9 June 2016, when thousands of people of Sri Lanka are desperate, because of the recent floods, landslides and explosions, and crying out for relief, it is a shame that the government has […]