Shenali D Waduge There is little point in raising the national flag if one does not know what the flag stands for and how the national flag came into being. There is little point celebrating independence, if people do not know what it took to gain independence and the centuries of suffering faced by the […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala By a set of fortuitous circumstances Judge C. G. Weeramantry,  his bubbly wife Rosemary and children had become  a part of our little circle in Melbourne ever since he was appointed to a chair in law at the Monash University in the seventies. Like all migrants we invariably gravitated to little […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි රටට සතුරු සුනක රජුනි, සමරනු මැන සයනු කපා, අති උදාර අපේ නිදහස මිතුන වර්ෂයේ, සතුරු මිතුන පහස ලබා – සිත කය සතපා ලැබෙන ධනය වෙත ලොබවී රට ගැන නොතකා දිවිදුන් ඒ විරුවන්ගේ ගුණදම් නොසිතා රටට සතුරු සුනක රජුනි, සමරනු මැන සයනු කපා, අති උදාර අපේ නිදහස මිතුන වර්ෂයේ, දහසක් ජන රුහිරු හෙළා  […]

Top Spin By Sunny Feb5th 2017 The incompetence seems to arise not from the players themselves entirely but the Chairman of Selectors and the Coach who appear to be making all the wrong choices as a result of which the team seems to be floundering and faltering like a rudderless ship. Surely there was no […]

Malin Abeyatunge Six people were killed and eight wounded when gunmen opened fire at a Quebec City mosque during Sunday night prayers, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a “terrorist attack on Muslims. As a  Sri Lankan I would not condemn this attack. The simple reason is the Canadian Govts  in the past […]

WITH RAVI LADDUWAHETTY Courtesy Ceylon Today Colombo District UPFA MP Bandula Gunawardane says that the government has brought the economy to such a quagmire that there is no hope of recovery. Here, he is in conversation with the Ceylon Today on core economic issues ?: What are your thoughts on the Treasury Bond Scam and what […]

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 දමුණුපොළ – චමින්ද ජයලත් If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.” ~Buddha “He who attends on the sick attends on me,” declared the Buddha, exhorting his disciples on the importance of ministering to the sick. වැඩ වාසය කළ විහාරස්ථානය හැරදමා පිණ්ඩපාතයෙහි යෙදෙමින් ලැබෙන දානය සිය වයෝවෘද්ධ මවට කවා […]

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ ෆෙඩරල් රටක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම, රටේ සම්පත් විකුණා දැමීම හා හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා ඇතුළු ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂයේ නායකයන්ගේ ප්‍රජා අයිතිය අහෝසි කිරීම ‘විගඩමක් මේ රූකඩ පාලනය විසින් නටන්නට හදන බවත් එහි තිර පිටපතේ කොටසක් ලෙස ජනපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ව්‍යාජ රනිල් විරෝධයක් පෙන්වන බවත් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ […]

Lesson from India Do you know who this auto driver is? He is Indian PM’s elder brother, an auto driver still. Neither he is taking any advantage of his brother’s position nor Indian PM interfering in his brother’s personal life. Indian PM, Mr. Modi, says my brother is living with dignity in his own way, he has […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE  Grievances.  ‘Grievances?’ rather.  A word and a question.  The former implies a list or at least two issues that somehow cause distress.  The latter, the question that is, is something that has been customarily ignored or caused much shy-making, toe-watching and navel-gazing.  At best it prompts a highly emotion and even highly stylized narrative which is marked […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග සයිටම් විරෝධය මතු කල යුත්තේ සයිටම් අායතනයේ කොලිටිය වැඩි කිරීම සඳහා මිස පුද්ගලික විශ්ව විද්‍යාල තහනම් කල යුතුයි කියන ස්ථාවරේ සිට නොවේ. සයිටම් අායතනයේ කොලිටිය වැඩි කිරීම සමගම බොහෝ අඩු ලුහුඞුතා තිබෙන දේශීය වෛද්‍ය ආයතන වලද කොලිටිය උසස් කර ගැනීමට සටන් කල යුතුය​. සයිටම් අායතනයෙන් පිටවන දොස්තරලා රෝගීන් මරා දමාවිද යන්න […]

Speech by Dr Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Colombo, 3 January 2017. Courtesy BIS Bank for International Settlements The presentation of the Road Map is a very important tradition that was initiated by the Central Bank in 2007 and this is the 10th statement in that tradition that we are presenting […]

Arun Ram| TNN Courtesy The Times of India CHENNAI: An influential businessman who had secret links with Sri Lanka-based Tamil radicals was helping forest brigand Veerappan with information and, probably, arms. What’s more, the same man, when threatened with exposure over his Lankan links, helped the Special Task Force trap and gun down the bandit 12 […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera With the long awaited act coming to effect from today ,I would like to request the government to provide following information Travel and Expenditure incurred by every minister for the last two years How many cars allocated to each minister Amount allocated and spent by each minister for house rent Which minister […]

Shenali D Waduge The fundamental right to a historically held identity is being incrementally usurped. There is a plot to usurp the Sinhale Identity. It must be opposed. The Sinhale identity is in our blood and the Buddhist identity is also in our blood. This has been so for over 2600years. Even the colonials did […]

By Rohana R. Wasala We sometimes talk about national scourges such as the current crassly perverted political culture, rank corruption in high places, abject dependence on and implicit faith in astrology and other occult practices, rampant abuse of drugs and drinking, smoking, and gambling, all of which, due to the existing circumstances, get lashed into […]