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 […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA When the despotic J.R.Jayawardene completed his 12 year term in 1989, and became unable to contest for a third term, he sponsored R.Premadasa who was the Prime Minister at that time to contest as UNP’s presidential candidate in the 1989 election. The JVP which was carrying out a terror campaign […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala When two distinguished authorities on the history of Jaffna  —  Bishop S. Jebanesan of the Jaffna Diocese of  the Church of South India, and Richard Fox Young who holds a Chair in the Princeton Theological Seminary, USA., – collaborated to translate the novel Mirage (Kanal in Tamil), depicting the plight of […]

 Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Sinhala Jesta purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya 24. 3 2017 I am Copying here few extremist News Headlines a trend that has to be arrested immediately 1 Wigneswaran tells Malik to withdraw Army from North 2 Canadian Toronto mayor has discussions with NPC Chief Minister  Wigneswaran  3 Wrong to give Sri Lanka more […]

R Chandrasoma It is a weakness of the system of memory-recall in humans that the good things that happened to us remain vivid in our memory while the misfortunes and travail that dogged our life tend to be pushed into oblivion. Nobody gets any joy in recalling an unpleasant past. Historians show the same weakness […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera JVP and Tamil  failed insurrection …….. When I keep remembering the experiences I had in Moscow, it may give some light to all of us about this country .We were taught political economy based on Socialist Doctrine and History of Soviet Union ( after 1917 only –nothing much about Tzar’s regime except […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando A Burger boy arrived, about 25 years ago, at David Jansze’s doorstep looking out for any type of work, showing signs of malnutrition and prominent burn scars on his face and body. Tyrone Bottoni hailed from a middle class family. His father was an engine driver at the CGR, married […]

Bodhi Dhanapala Quebec, Canada March 24, 2017, 8:07 pm Kamal Wickremasinghe (KW), writing to The Island Newspaper, March 22nd begins by the claim that “Glyphosate of course is the active ingredient of the world’s most widely used herbicide Roundup, known to cause cancer and kidney disease in humans”. This presumptuous statement about cancer and kidney […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි රූපවාහිනී නාලිකාවලින් දිනපතා ප්‍රවෘත්ති නරඹන අපේ ඇස ගැටෙන දේ අතර මැති ඇමතිලා සහභාගි වන උත්සවවලින් නම් අඩුවක් නැත. 2017 මාර්තු 17 වනදා හම්බන්තොට පැවති එවැනි උත්සවයක් නැරඹූවිට එහි ප්‍රධාන අමුත්තා වූ ධීවර හා ජලජ සම්පත් අමාත්‍ය මහින්ද අමරවීර කල කතාව නිසා යම් විශේෂත්වයක් දක්නට ලැබිනි. ඒ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල වෙනසක් ගැනද ඒ කතාව තුල […]

Courtesy The Island March 25, 2017, 8:02 pm The UNHRC resolution which was co-sponsored by Sri Lanka and passed without a vote last Thursday has given the government two years to deliver on the commitments made in UNHRC Resolution No: 30/1 of October 2015. Unlike in previous years, this year’s UNHRC resolution did not generate much […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE There are two wicked politicians still prevailing in Sri Lanka.  One is Badrakali Chandrika and the other The Wicked Ranil.   Their long term objective will be to eliminate all Sinhala National Leaders. If any danger takes place for the life of Mr Weerawangsa as a result of ongoing Fasting, the […]

Ira de Silva Canada It is incredible that the Australian High Commission has either denied or claims a visa for Maj. General C. Gallage is “under assessment” – diplomatic jargon to cover the denial of a visa.  Australia considers the Major General as a  “Potential Controversial Visitor” citing war crimes  and crimes against humanity as reason […]

සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නව රජය බලයට ආ දිනයේ සිට රටට යළි “මිලේනියම් සිටි” පාවා දීම සිහිගන්වමින් බුද්ධි අංශ රණවිරුවන්ට එරෙහි විමර්ශන ආරම්භ කළ රහස්‌ පොලිසිය ඉකුත් සතියේ ඇමැති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා පැවසූ බව කියමින් ආන්දොaලනාත්මක කතාවක්‌ ගල්කිස්‌ස අධිකරණයට වාර්තා කළේය. සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මෙසේ සීඅයිඩීයට කී කතාව වන්නේ කුමක්‌ද? ඉකුත් 2008 – 2009 වර්ෂයන්හිදී සිදුවූ […]

සාකච්ඡා කළේ – මනෝඡ් අබයදීර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දිනෙන් දින ඉහළ යන ආරක්‌ෂක බුද්ධි අංශ සාමාජිකයන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම සම්බන්ධව සමාජයේ ඇතිවී තිබෙන කතාබහ පිළිබඳ සංවාදය සඳහා හිටපු ආරක්‌ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‌ෂ මහතා සමග ‘දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්‍රහය’ කරන සාකච්ඡාවයි මේ. ප්‍රශ්නය – ත්‍රස්‌තවාදය ජයගැනීම සදහා ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවට නායකත්වය දුන් ප්‍රධානියා ඔබ. ඔබ යටතේ සේවය කළ නිලධාරීන් බොහෝ […]

Joint Opposition holds anti-govt rally in Galle ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහිව පෙරළියක පෙරමග ගාල්ලෙන්

By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana March 25, 2017  07:54 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the reason for soaring rice prices and cost of living is due to the ‘stupid’ decisions and carelessness of the government. Do you get rice for Rs 45 – 60 now? How much is it now? It is Rs 110 […]

රට වෙනුවෙන් යුධ බිමේ මෙන්ම පිටරටදීද සටන් වැදීමට සූදානම් රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් වීරසේකර කොටි ඩයස් පෝරාවට සහ පාට කණ්නාඩි දමාගත් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ට නිවරදිව ප්‍රතිඋත්තර ලබාදුන් නමුත් ඒ පිළිබඳව නිවරදිව අවබෝධයක් නොමැතිව එතුමන්ව විවේචනය කිරීමට සිරිසේන ජනපතිවරයාගේ හම්බන්තොට ගෝලයා වන මහින්ද අමරවීර කටයුතු කළේය. රට වෙනුවෙන් යුධ බිමේ මෙන්ම පිටරටදීද සටන් වැදීමට සූදානම් රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් […]

By The Nation The saga over the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) continues. It has already seen the good and the bad. Now it is seeing the ugly. This week police alleged that the reported shooting of the Chief Executive Officer of SAITM was apparently stage managed. A Pradeshiya Sabha member, police […]

By Waruna Abeysekera – Courtesy The Nation Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara is a high level naval officer who played a major role during the civil war. The former Deputy Minister and former MP recently became a much talked about figure because he went to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland to counter […]

The govt. requested for international intervention – G.L. Peiris