Dr MWN Dharmawardene Rajagiriya Courtesy The Island The monsoonal rains for an island like Sri Lanka are nature’s gift to the nation, which has been plundered by ad hoc management all self-seeking politicians since independence. Nevertheless, in spite of the so-called climate change phenomenon sweeping across the world, Sri Lanka has not been failed by rains […]

Shenali D Waduge Historically Christianity & Islam has been at odds. Both remain engaged in a historical endeavour to overrule & over power the other while at another level both join to influence other religions and their status quo. Both Vatican/Holy See and the stricter form of Islam (Wahhabism) under control of Saudi have at […]

R Chandrasoma Issues relating to the desirability of things must not be confused with those concerned with their feasibility.  In the democratic pursuit of the ideal states of human well-being much is longed for but little attained. The Latin tag ‘Facile dictu, difficle factu’ is a pithy statement of this sad fact. The popular consensus […]

Sudath Gunasekara Dear All Patriots, Please see the following notice by the Indian High Commission calling for applications from children of estate workers India offers scholarships to children of Sri Lankan estate workers May 27 (HCI) Applications are invited from the children of Estate Workers, who are residents of Estates, for award of scholarships by […]

By Niranjala Ariyawansha Courtesy Ceylon Today Last week the government decided to import 300,000 metric tons of rice saying there is a shortage in requirement until September. However, the All Ceylon Farmers’ Federation (ACFF) refuted the government claim saying that 200,000 metric tons of rice that is needed for local requirement for the current year is […]

BY PANCHAMEE HEWAVISSENTI Courtesy Ceylon Today In an interview with Ceylon Today, Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara said several recent incidents have compelled him to live in hiding as there is an attempt to assassinate him after arrest. The Thera further said he had to keep changing his hideouts for the protection of his life as he […]

Courtesy The Island May 27, 2017, 7:19 pm Sri Lanka’s high-end luxury apartment developments may already be in trouble, according to at least two developers responding the Central Bank’s concern over a property bubble that could potentially undermine the entire economy. The private Iconic Developments, an apartment builder, said it was aware of at least […]

Shenali D Waduge From 12,000 Indian immigrants in 1960, the Indian-American population has shot up to over 3million. The worldwide Indian diaspora itself is immeasurable with estimated figures ranging from 20-30million. Many of these Indians are proud Americans with little allegiance to their land of birth, however, qualities of their birth land remains and is […]

Gunadasa Amarasekara. Ranjith Soysa asked ‘Can the Prime Minister square a circle’ (6/5/Island). My friend Ranjith should have no illusions about the capabilities of our Prime Minister. He may not be a statesmen or a visionary, but he is certainly the cleverest politician amongst us. He is Machiavelli incarnate. (Remember how he burnt Chandrika’s package […]

Dr. Channa Jayasumana Daily Mirror Western Medicine can only manage the disease Identical disease is found in Central America  After treatment by a Sinhala Vedamahattaya, patients see improvements  Dr. Channa Jayasumana, Head of the Department of Pharmacology at Rajarata Medical Faculty who has conducted extensive research into Chronic Renal Failure in Sri Lanka, recently participated […]

Editorial The Island May 25, 2017, 9:25 pm The yahapalana regime apparently has no sense of shame. No sooner had the Public Finance Committee (PFC) suspended a government move to spend Rs. 329 million on super luxury vehicles for ministers another supplementary estimate was presented to Parliament seeking funds to buy vehicles for some more […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando May 23, 2017, ……..The  Island. Controversy surrounds Sri Lanka’s decision to do away with the annual Victory Day parade in the wake of the change of government in January 2015. Mathripala Sirisena was able to achieve what war winning Army chief General Sarath Fonseka failed in January 2010. The previous government celebrated […]

By Gandara John It was in 1998 when the US executed a major coup in Sri Lanka and succeeded in passing a US propelled Australian Land Law (Torrens Law) through Sri Lanka’s Parliament; this was ‘The Registration of Title Act 21 of 1998’, commonly referred to as ‘Bim Saviya’. Bim Saviya stripped the Judiciary of its […]

–ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  සංහිඳියාව සඳහා ප්‍රගුණ කරන්න ඕනේ ඉවසීමලු . හැබය් ඉවසන්න ඕනේ බෞද්ධයෝ විතරලු.මයිත්ත්රී භාවනාව කරන බෞද්ධයන්ට මිස .මරපියවූ කොටපියව් කියනඉස්ලාම් කාරයන්ට ඉවසන්න කියන එක සාධාරණ නැතිලු ධම්ම පදයය් කොරානයය් අතර සටනක් නිසා .බෞද්ධයෝ ”සටන් –නොකොරාන් ”. ශාන්තිවාදී තාපසයෝ තමන්ගේ අ ත් පාකපා දමන තුරු හිටියා මෙන් හිටපුහාම ඉන්දුනීසියාව ට ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානයට වුනා මෙන් සිද්ධවෙන දෙයක් […]

German Dharmaduta Society The Berlin Buddhist Vihara founded by Asoka Weeraratna (1957), and housed in Das Buddhistische Haus built by Dr. Paul Dahlke in 1924, being the oldest Theravada Buddhist temple in Europe, observed Vesak on Sunday May 14, in the presence of a large gathering of Buddhists and well – wishers from Sri Lanka, Germany, Thailand, and […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE President Maithripala Sirisena was hopeful.  He said the Cabinet reshuffle will provide a new impetus to Sri Lanka’s development.  Prof G.L. Peiris was generous.  He said that it is unfair to blame Ravi Karunanayake for the economic failures and fiscal shortcomings of the government since he operated with clipped wings considering that […]

By Haadiyah Marikar Courtesy The Daily Mirror Medical Negligence at Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Hospital in Chennai, Causes Death of a Sri Lankan Medical negligence is not unheard of and patients have died under such circumstances all around the globe. In this day and age one would think that doctors have no bias against a patient’s […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා සයිටම් ප්‍රශ්නය දඩමීමා කර ගෙන ආණ්ඩුවට විරුද්ධව ජනතාව උසිගැන්වීමට ඇතැම් සමාජවාදී ව්‍යාපාරකයන්, ඇතැම් විද්‍යුත් ජනමාධ්‍ය පඬියන්, ඇතැම් මාක්ස්වාදීන් වැනි අය උත්සාහ ගන්නවා. රනිල් ඉවත් කිරීමට කටයුතු නොකළ සමහරුන් සයිටම් විරෝධය හරහා තව තවත් රනිල් ශක්තිමත් කරනවා. සයිටම් ගැන මේ නිවේදකයන් දන්නා දෙයක් නැහැ. එහෙත් ඔවුන් පෙනී සිටින්නේ සියල්ල දත් මහා පඬියන් ලෙසයි.  […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා  මැන්චෙස්ටර් උතුරු එංගලන්තයේ ප්‍රධාන ම නගරය. එය ඇත්තේ ලැන්කෂයර් කෝරළයේ. එය කාර්මික විප්ලවයේ උපත සිදු වූ තැන ලෙස සැලකෙනවා. දැන් නම් ලන්ඩනයේ සිට පැය දෙකක ගමනක්. ලිවර්පූල් නගරයත් වෑඩි ඈතක නොවෙයි. බටහිර විද්‍යාවේ ඇතැම් සංකල්ප, ප්‍රවාද නිර්මාණය වී ඇත්තේත් මැන්චෙස්ටර් නගරයේ. නවසීලන්තයේ සිට පැමිණි රදර්ෆර්ඩ් මැන්චෙස්ටර් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේත් කලක් හිටියා. ඔහුගේ පරමාණු ආකෘතිය […]

Sudath Gunasekara 2017.5.24. I want all patriotic Sinhala readers to go through these statement by the big wigs of the Yahapalanaya Government carefully and thereafter find answers to the few simple queries I have posed to the four statements by the most important men in order of protocol on this subject, the President, Prime Minister, […]

ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයයි ජාතික භික්‍ෂු පෙරමුණ දෙමුහුන් ආණ්ඩුව තතන තතනා සිට කළ ඇමති මාරුවෙන් පෙන්නුම් කරන්නේ කුමන වෙස් පැලැන්දුවත් නටන්නේ බීපු ඇදුරා බවයි. රටට අවශ්‍යව ඇත්තේ තත්වයේ වෙනසක් නැතිව ස්ථාන මාරුවලින් කරන ඇස් බැන්දුම් ඇමති මාරුවක් හෝ මුහුණු මාරුවක් නොව 69 වසරක් තිස්සේ ජනතා ගැටලූ වලට උත්තර නැති මේ පිරිහුණු ධනපති ක‍්‍රමය වෙනුවට සමස්ථ ක‍්‍රමයේ මාරුවකි.     […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lanka is supposed to be Buddhist country of people with kindness and compassion …..Social Services ministers riding high in new Toyota Landcruiser >>>>>>>>>and big talks ? මව්බිම’ පුවතින් ක්ෂණික ප්‍රතිඵල මහපාරේ ඉන්න මවටත් පුතාටත් වැඩිහිටි නිවෙසකට යන්න වරම් කෑගල්ල දිසා ලේකම් කාර්යාලය අත දෙයි   ….. හබරාදුව රෝහලේ වැසිකිළියක මානසික රෝගීන් තිදෙනෙක්………. […]

 නලින් ද සිල්වා  වරින් වර කල් ගිය ඇමති මණ්ඩල වෙනසක් කරලා. ඉස්සරහට තවත් පොඩි ඇමති වෙනස්කම් කෙරෙනව කියලයි කියන්නෙ. මේක හිසරදේට කොට්ට මාරු කිරීමක් නො වෙයි. බෙල්ල රැක ගැනීමක්. අපේ බෙල්ල මිරිකීමට අවස්ථාව ලබා ගැනීමක්. ආණ්ඩුව ඇතුළෙ ප්‍රශ්න රාශියක් තිබුණ. රවි කරුණානායකට විරුද්ධ ව තිබූ චෝදනා එක් කරුණක් පමණයි. අමරවීර කියන්නෙ රවි හොරකු නොවන බවයි. […]

ආචාර්ය නාලක ගොඩහේවා පසුගියදා රූපවාහිනී නාලිකාවක පැවති දේශපාලන වාදයකදි, හම්බන්තොට පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ ආචාර්ය හර්ෂද සිල්වා මහතාගෙන් ඉතා කාලෝචිත ප්‍රශ්නයක් ඇසුවේය. ඒ 2016 මහ බැංකු වාර්තාවේ සඳහන් වන රැකියා ආශ්‍රිත සංඛ්‍යාලේඛන වන නිරවද්‍යතාවය පිළිබඳවය. ප්‍රශ්ණය නිසා අන්දමන්ද වූ නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමති වරයා තම දුරකථනය ඔස්සේ මහබැංකු වාර්ථා පිරික්සා පැවසුවේ 2015 හා 2016 […]

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Daily Mirror  Why is the PM anxious to move the new Constitution in three months? Why does he intend to push for a new constitution instead of an amendment which addresses the ethnic problem? Why does he want to do either without concentrating on economic growth and effective governance?…My sling […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island May 24, 2017, 8:15 pm Having raised the threat level from ‘severe’ to ‘critical’ following the Manchester blast, Britain is bracing itself for another possible terror strike. Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has vowed that his city will not succumb to division and anger due to the terror strike. But, Monday’s attack is […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Despite assurances given by Eunuch Sirisena and foreign slavish Ranil that foreign judges will not be brought in to hear cases relating to  the so-called alleged missing persons the government is making arrangements to betray the war heroes who are alleged to have been involved in activities relating to making […]

Shenali D Waduge LTTE was an India-created militant organization that was militarily defeated in May 2009. Its rule of terror ran for 30 years amidst failed negotiations, peace talks and peace agreements. After refusing the 3 offers given to lay down arms and surrender, the LTTE was militarily defeated. LTTE’s reign of terror resulted in […]

Sudath Gunasekara 22.5. 2017  I am prompted to pose this million dollar question to all Sri Lankans in the light of the following news item that appeared in May 22 NDTV. Chennai Police Warns of Action against Protesters who wanted to light candles on Marina Beach to commemorate Sri Lankan LTTE casualties in the war […]