Archive for 2016

ජවිපෙට යළි පණදී ජවිපෙන් නික්ම ගිය ‘සිරි අයියාට’ ආයුබෝවන්

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න විසිනි. ආයුබෝවන් යනු ශ‍්‍රී ලාංකිකයින් අතර පවතින සාම්ප‍්‍රදායික ආශීර්වාද පාඨයකි. එය පිළිගැනීම සහ වෙන්වීම යන එකිනෙකට පරස්පර අර්ථයන් දෙකකට ලොව භාවිත කරන එකම වචනයද විය හැකිය. අපි ආයුබෝවන් කියන්නේ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ(ජවිපෙ) 4වැනි නායකයාවූ සෝමවංශ අමරසිංහගේ(සිරි අයියා) දිවි සැරිය ජුනි 15වැනිදා අළුයම රාජගිරියේ බුත්ගමදී සමීප ඥාතිවරයෙකුගේ නිවසේදී නිමාවීම වෙනුවෙනි. සෝමවංශ අමරසිංහ ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ […]

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What are the chemicals in spices?

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

Dr Hector Perera    London In 1505 when Portuguese landed in Sri Lanka by sheer accident, they made it best by exploring on spices. They promised the King that they would safeguard the coastal areas from other foreign invaders. The King promised in return to give spices by weight of not tons but by weight of […]

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අනාරක්ෂිත දුම්රිය හරස් මාර්ග ගේට්ටු මුරකරුවන්ගේ ශෝකාන්තය

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දුම්රිය හරස් මාර්ග 1,083ක් ඇති අතර ආරක්ෂක පද්ධති සවිකර ඇත්තේ ඉන් 337ක පමණි. අනාරක්ෂිත දුම්රිය හරස් මාර්ග සංඛ්‍යාව 746ක් වන අතර ඉන් 168ක්ම මුහුදුබඩ දුම්රිය මාර්ගයට අයත්ය. මෙම අනාරක්ෂිත දුම්රිය හරස් මාර්ගයන් 746න් 687ක සේවය කරන දුම්රිය හරස් මාර්ග මුරකරුවන් 2,061 දෙනෙකු සේවය කරනුයේ දුෂ්කරතා රැසක් මැද සොච්චම් වැටුපකට බව ඒ […]

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LOOKING BACK ON EELAM WAR IV.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

KAMALIKA PIERIS The west invented the myth that the LTTE could not be defeated. The army took a different view. We could have defeated them long before.   We had a well trained, well motivated armed force and our leadership and soldier fighting skills were superior, said Gotabhaya Rajapakse . In 2006, for the first time […]

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මේ මගේ දරුවෝ  ගැනය්

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ඉතිහාසේ ලිව්වට කියවන අය  අඩුය් එත් ඉගේදොර  වතුපිටි සුද්ද කරලා තින් ටිකදෙනෙකුට හරි ලියන්න එපා යැ එක අපේ යුතුකමක් හුන්ග්ක් යට අපි ආවේ කොහෙන්ද යන්නේ කොහෙද  කරන්නේ මොකක්ද කියල හොයන්න අවශ්‍ය කමක් නැහැ එදා  වේල  කාල විනොදවෙනවා මිසක් ඉතින් ඇබැද්දියක් වුනාම අනේ අපොය් කියනවා මිසක් ඔවුන්ට විසදුම් හොයාගන්න බහ .                                                     වසර හාර […]

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17th century Portuguese land records at the SL Archives and their historical importance

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

[This article is based on a talk given by Haris de Silva at the National Archives in May 2016, under their monthly public lecture series] June 10, 2016, 12:00 pm Portuguese land records were compiled after King Dharmapala (1551-1597) donated his kingdom to the Portuguese monarch. Dharmapala, was later, known as Don Joao Dharmapala, after […]

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වලත්තයා කියා රනිල්ගේ මුණටම බැන්න රාජිත

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

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G7 සමුළුවට යැයි කියමින් ජපන් ගිය වදින තැනකට අකුණු

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

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Letter on the Canadian Prime Minister and his Liberal Government

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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An open letter to the President

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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Distorting history to  promote Tamil politics

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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Mahajana Viyawastawa II – A New Constitution that Guarantees to Solve All Our Countrie’s Problems

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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BUNGLING THE EELAM WAR

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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සින්හෙල ජාතික බලය විසිරි ඇතිබව හතුරා දනි!

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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විනාඩි කිහිපයක් වැය කර මෙය නරබන්න

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

විනාඩි කිහිපයක් වැය කර මෙය නරබන්න https://youtu.be/M2Z0gG21asU

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සරසාලේ මහා සටන

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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  ” […]

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ADB appreciates Myanmar’s sustained progress

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

 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 […]

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Media institutions

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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21 BILLION ALLOCATED FOR CANAL BANK RELOCATION 

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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Democracy in practice Heeding public views

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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Many want me to run for President – Gota

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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They get revenge from people – Mahinda-ජපානයේදී මහින්ද මහ ඉහලින් පිලිගනිති.. යන යන තැන ජනයා පිරෙති..

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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

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In the past there were some difficulties in cooking but not right now, some solutions are included

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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What a shame?

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

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 […]

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If UN admits Saudi financial pressure led to removal of Saudi from child killer list, did LTTE fronts pay UN to bring war crimes charges only on Sri Lanka’s soldiers?

Monday, June 13th, 2016

Shenali D Waduge This is alarming news. Can a UN Secretary General be ‘coerced’ by a country? Can the coercion be of monetary nature that leaves the UNSG no choice but to succumb? Can the UN & its Secretary General be bought over for money? Has money being so powerful that the UN even removes […]

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DEVELOPMENT DRIVE AND THE  FEAR OF  GUILLOTINE

Monday, June 13th, 2016

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I watch TV and read daily papers ,regarding many statements and promises issued by the Prime Minister ,obviously in good faith and he places the trust in executing the tasks given in  his promises on  the state officials . It is regrettable to note that all chairmen of corporations or Accounting officers […]

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නුදුරු අනාගතයේදී මෙරට තුල ඇති වෙන සිංහල මුස්ලිම් ගැටුම කළමණාකර ගන්නේ කෙසේද?

Monday, June 13th, 2016

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි මේ වනවිට මෙරට තුල සිංහල මුස්ලිම් ජන අරගලයකට සියල්ල සූදානම්ව පවතී. පවතින රජය හමුදාවන් සතු ආයුධ ප්රමාණය විකුණා දමා හෝ විනාශ කිරීමෙන් පසු හමුදාව දුබල තත්වයකට පත්කල විගස මේ මුස්ලිම් ගැටුම ආරම්භ වීමට ප්රමාණාට්මකව පසුබිමක් සකස්ව ඇත. සිංහල මුස්ලිම් ජනතා ගැටුමක අවශ්යතාවය තේරුම් ගත් බටහිර ප්රජාව ඒ සම්බන්ධව සූදානම්වීම ආරම්භ කලේ, කොටි […]

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LTTE ‘FIGHTS’ THE ARMY

Monday, June 13th, 2016

KAMALIKA  PIERIS The LTTE  knew that it could not face the Sri Lanka army in regular conflict.  They were not a trained army. On the two occasions when the state army was allowed to fight them properly, they were soundly defeated.( Vadamarachchi,1987 and  Eelam war IV 2009). Clashes with the LTTE had shown the Sri […]

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Mosque burning in Christian countries

Monday, June 13th, 2016

Shenali D Waduge A gay nightclub became the latest attack in Orlando, USA resulting in the deaths of 50 people and injuring scores of others. President Obama called it ‘an act of terror and an act of hate’. The gunman was a Muslim and ISIL has claimed responsibility. Not many seem to question the roots […]

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War victims need Financial Assistance Urgently

Monday, June 13th, 2016

V.Anandasangaree Secretary General- TULF Your Excellency, War victims need Financial Assistance Urgently On behalf of the Tamil United Liberation Front  I express  my  deepest sympathies to the victims of the Kosgama Salawa Army camp incident, who virtually  lost all their possessions unexpectedly in a short while. Immense damage had been caused to their houses and other […]

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