By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA By the year 2000, the pig headed old hag Chandrika’s government became unpopular due to stagnation of development activities in the country and the economic growth of the country recording a negative growth for the first time. Under these circumstances, Minister S.B.Dissanayake and several other Ministers left the People’s Alliance […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s critical observation that retired Major General Kamal Gunaratne’s book containing his personal war memoirs Road to Nandikadal” (Vijitha Yapa Bookshop, Colombo, 2016) becomes a war crime dossier” was reported in an article published in the Sunday Island of March 19, 2017 (a reproduction of a news report […]

රුවන් ඇන්ටන් දියලගොඩ වේදිකාව ඉදිරියේ හුන් ප්‍රෙක්ෂකයින් කිහිප දෙනෙකුම වේදිකාව මතට ඇදි ‍ගොස් සංදර්ශකයින් බවට පත්ව ඇත. කළු උපැස් යුවලක් පැළැඳ කළු ටයි පටියක් දමා ගත් පුද්ගලයාගේ බසට ඔවුන් අවනත වී ඇති සෙයකි. දෑස් ‍ගෙන එක් අත් ගෙන එක් අතක් ඉහලට ඔසවා ගත් වේදිකාව මත සිටියවුන් සියුම් සංගීතයට අනුව දෙපා තබයි. මෙලෙස සංගීතයට අනුව දෙපා […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The first evidence of attitudes towards sex comes from the ancient texts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism (Chakraborty & Thakurata, 2013). Many centuries before Sigmund Freud, Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Albert Moll or D.H. Laurence the Tantric Buddhist monks discussed the wider aspects of human sexuality. Tantric is often viewed as […]

සුර්යවංශය යලි ගොඩනැගීමේ පදනමෙන්   I like to talk to diehard Sinhala chauvinists – Wigneswaran (සිලෝන් ටුඩේ පුවත්පතේ පළවූ මුල් ලිපිය ) By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Nothern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran said, ” We need to have the North and East merged to avoid Sinhalisation of the North and East. Today Sinhalisation is taking place […]

Malin Abeyatunge While the Britain sponsored  (America did not sponsor the resolution this year) UNHRC Resolution against Sri Lanka war crimes (mind you for having conclusively defeating the most brutal terrorist organisation in the world called LTTE by the forces of President Rajapaksa) Theresa May new British PM had to taste the brutality of terrorism […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Assn. Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The Editor, Dompost. Dear Editor, The announcements on Friday by the NZ government of plans to open a High Commission in Sri Lanka is welcome news to all. Not only trade but other mutually beneficial activities like tourism and travel   would also […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  සියලු සුළු වාර්ගික චන්ද සහ දේශද්‍රෝහී සිංහලයන්ගේ ත් බෞද්ධ විරෝධීන්ගේත් චන්ද ලබා ගෙන අලුත් ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් අනුමත කිරීම සඳහා පවත්වන ජන මත විචාරණයක් ජය ගැනීමට යහපාලන රජය ට කිසියම් හැකියාවක් අතය් දේශප්‍රේමී ජනතාව අතර දැන් දැඩි බියක් ඇත ..සිංහලේ ඉතිහාසයේ මෙතෙක් කිසිකලෙක නොවූ විරු අන්දමින් සිංහල බෞද්ධ උරුමය මරාදමා මිනී පෙට්ටියේද බහා අන්තිම ඇ […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I read above news I am compelled to quote….. I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other…………. Napoleon Bonaparte” If the change his cloak from lion to fox for no reason I cannot see […]

Senaka Weeraratna Colombo: The election for the 24th President of the Bar Association takes place on February 21, 2017 . Three candidates have presented nominations for the post of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), namely Anura B. Maddegoda, U.R. de Silva and R. Thangaraja. They have distributed their election manifesto […]

 Posted by Ashna Kumar Courtesy Mail Today Meanwhile, the fate of a large workforce employed by these abattoirs remains a tricky issue for the new government. In Saharanpur district, only five slaughterhouses operate legally. But there are countless others that run clandestinely from homes. Israr, a butcher, told India Today that he hoped the Adityanath […]

By Leon Berenger Courtesy Ceylon Today Thousands of foreign visitors arriving in the country are being ripped-off by several  unofficial off-shore based websites who are handling Lankan landing visas in exchange for staggering fees, while the authorities in Colombo remain helpless, it was revealed yesterday. An unknown number of websites or even more are currently in […]

By Skandha Gunasekara Courtesy Ceylon Today The effects of the pressure on the government from the international community to investigate alleged war crimes and to bring about reconciliation were evident in Parliament this week with the government making statements on the matter while the JVP slamming the government for attempting to renew a military deal with […]

by Nihal Seneviratne (Former Secretary General of Parliament) March 25, 2017, 5:12 pm It was as usual a sunny morning in Sri Jayawardenepura – Kotte in Aug. 1991 when Anil Moonesinghe, MP, walked into my room and sat down. He opened his conversation by saying “Nihal, you will be at the centre of a big controversy […]