Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada. Paul Kreutzer, a US Foreign Policy advisor, writing to the AmericanDiplomacy.Org” lists what he terms Ten principles of operational diplomacy”, and also, eight attributes of a diplomat. Two of the ten principles were Circumspection”, and Perceptiveness”.  Two of the eight attributes were An effective cross-cultural communicator”, and A remover of obstacles”. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised      24.11.18 This essay lists several Yahapalana items which not included in the earlier essays. They are presented as discrete items and not as an essay. ** On Derana News 31.5.18 it was stated that Ranil Wickremasinghe had forwarded to the Cabinet on three separate occasions, a Cabinet paper to remove the state […]

The Daily Mirror of 21 November 2018 reported that the Tamil National Alliance had urged diplomats to use their influence ‘with whoever necessary’ to put the country in the right path, whatever that means. This followed a meeting with 15 diplomats on what they all want to present as a ‘political crisis’. However, what was […]

Adding to piling examples of flouting parliamentary democracy by the UNP leadership was the removal of civic rights of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world’s first female Prime Minister on frivolous & cooked up corruption charges merely to prevent her from contesting elections. The decision to go to the extent of removing civic rights of one’s […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති එඩිත් එලිසා ෆාන්ස්වත් කියලා කියන්නේ ඇමෙරිකානු ජනපද සංගමය වෙනුවෙන් දකුණු ආසියානු කලාපයේ ඔත්තු බලපු, රහස් හොයපු ලොක්කියක්. මුල් කාලේ දී රුසියානු භාෂාවත් රුසියාව ගැනත් පරතෙරට හදාරලා තිබුණු මේ නෝනා CIA සංවිධානයට තරුණ කාලයේ දී ම සම්බන්ධවුනා. ඇමෙරිකානු ජනපද සංගමයේ විදේශ සේවයට සම්බන්ධ වෙලා රස්සාව කරපු ක්‍රිස්ටෝපර් වෑන් හොලන් කියන මහත්තයාත් එක්ක 1953 […]

Senaka Weeraratna A brief talk on Dr. G.P. Malalasekera, founder of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) was delivered on November 08, 2018 by Mr. Senaka Weeraratna ( Hony. Secretary,German Dharmaduta Society) at the First Plenary Session of the 29th General Conference of the WFB, held at Narita, Japan from Nov. 7-9, 2018. Here is […]

 lanka C news තමන් විසින් හිටපු අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් නවතම කෘතියක් සම්පාදනය කරන බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එම කෘතියේ නම ‘රනිල් සමඟ අසාර්ථක දේශපාලන දීගය’ බවත් එය ලබන ජනවාරියේ දී එළිදක්වන බවත් ඒ මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. කොළඹ පැවති උත්සවයක් අමතමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙම අදහස් පළ කළේය. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සන්ධාන මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් කිසිවකු හෝ […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror House Leader and Minister Dinesh Gunawardane said today they had decided to boycott parliamentary sessions until Speaker Karu Jayasuriya acted according to the Constitution, Standing Orders and parliamentary tradition. He told a news conference held at the parliament complex that they would take a decision on attending […]

By Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The doctrine of necessity is the basis on which extra-legal actions by State actors, which are designed to restore order, are found to be constitutional… The doctrine of necessity has since been applied in a number of Commonwealth countries, and in 2010 was invoked to justify extra-legal actions in […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today According to Western scientists, the most recognized theory on the beginning of the universe is said to be the ‘Big Bang’ theory, but in a latest research by Prof.  Swanda Sugunasiri, in Canada, who entered the priesthood recently as Bhikku Mihitha, states the  Buddha’s ‘Agganna’ discourse in ‘Digha […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න විවිධ සමාජ කල්ලි, දේශපාලන  කල්ලි , නොරටුන්ගේ කල්ලි රාශියක් ලහි ලහියේ පවතින රජයට විරුද්ධව පෙළගැසී ඇති බව ඔබ දන්නෙමු. ඔබ කිනම් පක්ෂයකට අයත්වුවත් , කුමන ආගමකට අයත්වුවත් , කුමන විදේශ් ජාතියකට අයිතිවුවත් අපට කම්  නැත. ඊට ප්‍රධානම හේතුව වන්නේ දීර්ඝ කාලිනව සම්බුදු සසුණ හා සිංහලයාගේ නිත්‍ය ජන්ම භුමිය උදුරා විදෙශ් හා නොරටුන්ගේ බලවේගයන් […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Yahapalana did not forget the ancient Sinhala kings.  A  Punyanumodana national programme was organized to transfer merit on ancient kings and their chief ministers in recognition of their great national and religious service. It was held at the Ruwanweli seya in September 2018 under the patronage of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. It included […]

ALI SUKHANVER In the second week of last October, various Sri Lankan newspapers published a report which claimed that Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena had accused India’s external intelligence agency R&AW of attempting to assassinate him. More important is the fact that this assassination plot was unearthed just days before Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Sri Lankan […]

R Chandrasoma Politics in Sri Lanka today is underwritten by the epic struggle of some key individuals to secure positions of dominance in a wildly fluctuating and tumultuous political scene in which ideology and principles take a back seat. Take the classic instance of the Ex-Prime Minister now holed-up in his once- official abode known […]

RANJITH SOYSA I, as a SPUR member wish to refer to D. Rajapakese’s concerns on purring SPUR (Island 19th Nov) . While he does not welcome” foreign interference” in Sri Lankan affairs, he obviously does not like when the protesting voice is originated by the overseas Sri Lankans. Be that as it may, among us […]

Sri Lankan citizens cannot ignore the manner foreign envoys are seen interfering into the internal affairs of Sri Lanka. The regular visits to Temple Trees, the uncanny diplomatic statements being issued, the virtual threats of imposing sanctions & freezing aid simply because their poster boy has been democratically removed just does not tally with their […]

by Garvin Karunaratne,  Right or wrong, our President Sirisena has taken a step, as described by me earlier, “If a Prime Minister appointed by the President, is not acting in the interests of the country and its people by opening up the country for foreigners and foreign countries to rule, selling family silver, neglecting the […]

Kanthar Balanathan Taking a birds-eye view of the situation in Sri Lanka, an intelligent person should be able to conclude whether Ranil Wickramasinghe (RW) is a patriotic honest person to govern as a PM of SriLanka. He contested with Chandrika and lost. RW could not win in any presidential election to become the President. Every […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්          සිංහල ජාතියත් සංස්කෘතියත් විනාශ වන්නට ආරම්භ වුණේ එක්දහස් අටසිය පහළොවේ  මහනුවර මගුල්මඩුව ආසන්නයේ දී සිංහල කොඩිය බිම දමා ඉංග්‍රීසි කතිර කොඩිය  උස්සාපු මොහොතේ සිටයි.  සිංහල නිලමේවරු සමග අත්සන් කළ  ගිවිසුම කඩකරලා බුද්ධ ශාසනයටත් සිරිත් විරිත් වලටත් අපහාස වන විදියට කටයුතු කරන්නට ඉංග්‍රීසීන් කටයුතු  කරන බව දැනුණෙන් ජනතාව කෝප ගැන්වුණා. සිංහල රදළයන්ට අයත්ව […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS One of the less prominent features of Yahapalana puppet rule is its animosity to the Sinhala Buddhist culture.  This anti Buddhist attitude emerged as soon as Yahapalana came in.  It went in two directions.  One was to repress the Maha Sangha, and the other was to stop elephants from going in the Perahera. […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 21 (newsin.asia): Fresh parliamentary elections may be the only way out of the logjam Sri Lanka finds itself in at present, and for the foreseeable future. The opposition is trying its level best to use its parliamentary majority (122 out of 225 seats) to deny funds to the government, fully knowing […]

Ajith Siriwardana The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said today they would bring in a resolution to dissolve Parliament and pave way for a general election soon after defeating the current political coup. JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said this at a rally held in Maharagama on the theme defeat dictatorial fury and win democracy”.

Courtesy Adaderana Reuters – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it had delayed discussions on Sri Lanka’s next loan tranche due to the country’s political crisis. The IMF has disbursed over $1 billion out of a $1.5 billion three-year extended fund facility (EFF) loan it agreed in 2016. The aim was to avert […]

Courtesy Adaderana Government group has submitted the names of 7 members to the Secretary General of the Parliament as nominees for the Parliamentary Select Committee. The Secretary to the Leader of the House of Parliament has directed the letter containing the seven nominees to the Parliamentary Secretary General. Accordingly, UPFA MPs Dinesh Gunawardena, S.B. Dissanayake, […]

By ; A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA On 16th last Friday the government Ministers and MPS extremely annoyed by demented Karuma Jayasuriyasuriyaq’s arrogance and failure to take appropriate action against the threats posed to members of Parliament by Ranjan Ramanayake and Palitha Thevarapperuma by bringing in knives to Parliament, accommodating notorious thugs and underworld operators to the […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Having read the professional scrip of HLD Mahindapala, I decided to re-enter LankaWeb. Three years I watched the antics of Ranil W and his mob raking the Sri Lankan green fields to the bare barren earth. Today I read the excellent prose of HLD Mahindapala, the evergreen of Sri Lankan journalism, factual, […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island By now, everyone in the country would have realized that the current political mess that the country is in, stems from the changes made or purported to be made in the Constitution, by the 19th Amendment. From the very beginning, the 19th Amendment Bill itself has been a mess. […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay looks at five important Yahapalana activities. They are Legislation, Constitutional Council, Income tax, Land bank and Citizen Data base. LEGISLATION Yahapalana method of passing laws has been criticized. Important laws are passed with just a simple majority of the MPs present and voting. The Enforced Disappearances Bill was declared passed in […]

ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති තුණ්ඩුවෙන් කඩ වහන කාලයක් තිබුණා. ඒ, මීට අවුරුදු 30 කට විතර කලින්. ඒ කාලයේ අපේ රටේ තත්ත්වය බොහෝම අස්ථාවරයි. එක පැත්තකින් කොටි සංවිධානය අවි අමෝරාගෙන උතුරු සහ නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වලට වෙලා හිටියා. අනිත් පැත්තෙන් ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ දියත්කරපු ආයුධ සන්නද්ධ අරගලයක් දකුණු පළාත්වල ක්‍රියාත්මක වුනා. ඒ අරගලය මර්දනය කරන්න කියලා හිතාගෙන ආණ්ඩුවත් හරි […]

RANJITH SOYSA Sri Lanka’s Speaker in the Parliament is attempting to create anarchy in the country by design or through extreme incompetency. Restless and clueless in his approach in handling of the Parliament affairs he continues to make a mockery of the rules governing the Parliament sessions . A the very start he boldly said […]