Shenali D Waduge  7 billion populace live in 195 countries. Some countries are rich others are poor – all countries are in debt. People are obsessed with wealth. Media projects the notion that wealth is the answer to all. Films aggravate situation by glorifying the lifestyles of the elite. Even those who preach the faith […]

 Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .  Canada 11 October 2016 Hon. Mangala Samarawera, MP Minister of Foreign Affairs Government of Sri Lanka Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Dear Minister Mangala Samaraweera: I was absolutely excited when I came across the report by Hassina Leelarathna,in Lankaweb, reproduced from Sri Lanka Express under the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera If you ask any head of a private company, state sector or a corporation, authority ,about any development project ,what do you hear ? Shear frustration and criticism .Cart is driven by many horses in different directions .No minister is able to spearhead development despite promises given by the Prime Minister .Doesn’t […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I have been working in establishments in private and public sector under all above presidents. Only good thing I learnt  was during RP’s time when he kept us on pins and we delivered. I used to get calls at 4 am from Keselewatte about a problem related to public inconvenience somewhere and […]

 www.mahinda.info [1]. පසුගිය දා විධායක ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ පුත් දහම් සිරිසේන විසින් නයිට් ක්ලබ් එකකට ගොස් කලබල ඇති කර තම ආරක්ෂකයින් ලවා එහි සේවකයන්ට පහර දීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් වූ සිද්ධිය යෝෂිත රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට බැර කිරීමට යහපාලන අන්තර්ජාල මඩ ඒකකය කටයුතු කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අප පැහැදිළි කිරීමක් සිදුකළෙමු. එහිදී අප දැක්වූ වීඩියෝවක අදහස් දක්වන්නේ වත්මන් FCID ප්‍රධානියා […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island October 10, 2016, 8:10 pm Last Sunday, Alice Akka was ambling to her vegetable plot when she fell into a rabbit hole. She went hurtling down a dark void and, a few moments later, landed on her back with a thud. She found herself in Wonderland. A deposed king with his family […]

By Lalin Fernando Courtesy The Island October 9, 2016, 12:00 pm “There is an industry of vexatious allegations against…Forces during … war. We will investigate but will stop abuse of the system. There are 1, 500 allegations. … these (allegations) appear to be above the law… Two law firms are taking advantage of UK’s legislative approach […]

P.A.Samaraweera  The US polls are to be held on the 8th of November. The first debate between Hilary Clinton (HC) and Donald Trump (DT) was held a few weeks ago. According to political commentators, HC was ahead in that debate.  The 2nd debate was held on the 9th of October. In this debate, among other […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern that the Pakistan government in Islamabad has  issued indirect threats to a senior scribe for his report published in Dawn. The northeast India based scribes’ forum argues that the Nawaz Sharif government  should respect the freedom of Pakistani journalist Cyril Almeida who reported about the […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today At a seminar organized by young professionals, “Geneva and You”,Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke observes that Sri Lanka is in a perpetual cyclical pattern. First, we prepare, learn from our mistakes and achieve a significant victory that could change the course. Yet, we are unable to maintain our victory. The third phase […]