KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 13.3.19 A huge government apparatus has been created to deliver the Tamil language to a reluctant and disinterested population.  An Official Languages Commission was established in 1991 by the Official Languages Commission Act No. 18 of 1991.  The Commission is composed of six members, of whom only the Chairman serves in a […]

By ‘Che’ Children of Lanka, behold thy Mother in the year 2050, penetrated and abused! Mother Lanka behold thy Children of 2050, bereft of mother, dignity and enslaved! The above map of Sri Lanka, in the year 2050, is taken from the Gospel according to ‘Born Again’ America, printed by courtesy of the Millennium Challenge […]

අද (25) දින මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින්  • පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ලක්ෂ්මන් යාපා අබේවර්ධන  මහතා • පාර්ලිමේන්තු  මන්ත්‍රී අනුර යාපා මහතා • පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී එස්. එම්. චන්ද්‍රසේන මහතා • ඉතිහාසය පුරාම සන්ධානගත වෙලා තියෙන්නේ ප්‍රධාන බලවේගයත් එක්ක. 1670 දි ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයප්‍රධාන බලවේගය නිසා අනෙක් පක්ෂ ශ්‍රීලනිපය එක්ක එකතු වුනා. 1965 දි එජාපය ප්‍රධාන […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana Some  technicians dressed like surgeons in an operating theater are working in a vast tower sealed from the environment. It is full of hydroponic shelves, lights, pumps and small robots  controlled by  clusters of computers. This is  ultra high-tech  agriculture (UHTA). We are in a modern agro-factory tower that has replaced the […]

Dr Sarath obeysekera This child is born with them help of many fathers This child should have been borne with a good planetary position He should have been a child with a good future .Unforrtenaty this child is having many fathers and no one taking taking responsibilities . What ever Karma transferred from parents are […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Tambiah got his 1992 book banned in Sri Lanka because of this cover page. By using this picture of a socially active Buddhist monk, Tambiah insulted the 2500-year robe-based Buddhist civilizational foundation in the island. The monk was a freedom fighter against the semi- dictatorial regimes of JR Jayawardena and R […]

by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island February 26, 2019, 11:02 pm President Sirisena’s comments on the Constitutional Council (CC) and the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka have elicited both supportive and negative responses from several quarters. This note is not on whether the President had grounds to say what he did or not. Instead, […]

Punsara Amarasinghe  Institute of Law and Politics Scuola Superiore Sant Anna Pisa, Italy The political and social upheaval of 1956 has been always received mixed reactions in Sri Lankan society. For some it was the monumental event in post-colonial Ceylon that common man disrupted the social and cultural hegemony which was predominantly consisted of Colombo based […]

NIMAL LEWKE Former Commandant STF Courtesy The Island It has been reported that drug dealer Makandure Madush had plans to smuggle in a specialized weapon, M 39 rifle to the country. Although I do not think much about this drug dealer and his detection was given huge publicity, and at the same time his name […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris, yesterday, alleged that the proposed Counter Terrorism Bill would encourage those still pursuing a separatist agenda. Instead of countering the threat of terrorism, it would definitely facilitate the terrorism project, the former External Affairs Minister told a media briefing at Nelum Mawatha Office […]

newsin.asia Colombo, February 26 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan cricket legend Sanath Jayasuriya has been banned from all cricket for two years after admitting breaching two counts of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. Mr Jayasuriya, the former Sri Lanka Cricket Chair of Selectors, admitted to being in breach of the following provisions of the Code Article 2.4.6 – […]