KAMALIKA PIERIS Sooriasegaram pointed out that In spite of many obstacles and obstructions by the Tamil ruling elites we have seen slow but definite progress among the oppressed caste community in education and in being able to receive healthcare facilities. This was made possible by the welfare state, introducing free education from primary school all […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Muslim community in Sri Lanka prior to the formation of the people’s revolutionary government of late Prime Minister Mr. S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike in 1956 was more or less a community of serfdom depending entirely on the handouts from the rich traders/merchants, or from the landowners in the agricultural areas, or from […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.  According to Freud meditation is a reaction formation of omnipotence to infantile helplessness. As described by Alexander (1931)   meditation is a “libidinal, narcissistic turning of the urge for knowing inward, a sort of artificial schizophrenia with complete withdrawal of libidinal interest from the outside world.  Kris (1963) viewed meditation as a […]

Aape Aththo – Hela Family As we look to the future and focus on our sovereignty, peace and prosperity, we must not ignore the big picture of the world we live in. In the 21st century, the Indian Ocean will be the center stage for neocolonialists as they jostle to secure resources, trade deals and […]

Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public Lecture The Illustrated Mahāvaṃsa: Paintings from a 12th Century Myanmar Temple”  by Dr. Hema Goonatilake  On Monday 28th January 2019 at 5.00 p.m. at the  Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL ARE WELCOME When Myanmar got her independence, the first country she wanted to have foreign […]

Dr Sarah Obeysekera Meditator Whole Sri Lanka should start practicing meditation like Maithree and Ranil and develop Metta and Karuna. We see MAITHREE following principles of Buddha , foster compassion by taking opposition members to Thailand and try to show that he has no hatred and ill will. Today we saw him accompanying SB and DJ […]

 Somaweera Sirisinghe of Auckland, New Zealand The issue of dual citizenship held by politicians arose recently in Australia and in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka an MP’s election was declared void due to the person being a citizen of another country as well. Then stories of others of same genre were coming out of the […]

Lanka Lead News වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මන්ත්‍රීවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිදු කළ කතාවක් දැඩි අවදානයට ලක්ව තිබේ. පසුගිය 22 පැවැති පාර්ලිමේන්තු සැසියේදි වාසුදේව නානායක්කාර මන්ත්‍රීවරයා බටලන්ද කොමිෂන් සභාව සහ බැඳුම්කර කොමිෂන් සභාව පිළිබඳ අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහගෙන් ප්‍රශ්න කිරීම මෙලෙසින් කතාබහට ලක්ව තිබේ. එහිදි මන්ත්‍රීවරයා අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අගමැතිවරයාට ප්‍රකාශ කළේ දැන් ඔබට ඉතිරිව ඇත්තේ මෙරටින් පැන යාම පමණක් […]

Courtesy Adaderana A motion has been filed with the Colombo Magistrate’s Court today requesting the court to name Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank Nandalal Weerasinghe and former Deputy Governor Ananda Silva as suspects in the bond scam case. The motion was filed by the attorney representing the owner of Perpetual Treasuries Limited, Mr […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, January 24 (newsin.asia): In July 2017 the Sri Lankan government renewed, for another ten years, the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) with the United States Department of Defense. ACSA allows the exchange of supply and services, training of staff and humanitarian aid in disaster situations between the two countries. In a proposal to […]

lanka C news හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාගේ බාල පුත් රෝහිත රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා අද දිනයේ විවාහ දිවියට එළැඹුනේය. වීරකැටියේදී පැවත්වෙන මෙම මංගල උත්සවය සදහා දේශපාලන නායකයන්, ව්‍යාපාරිකයන් ඇතුළු බොහෝ දෙනෙකු සහභාගී වී සිටිති. මේ විවාහය සදහා කිසිදු ආකාරයක මත්පැන් සැපයීමක් සිදු නොකෙරෙන රණවරා, බෙලිමල්, දිවුල් යුෂ අමුත්තන්ට බීම සහා ලබා දෙයි. ආහාර සදහා ලබා දෙන්නේ […]