KAMALIKA PIERIS When Ralph Pieris told me ‘I was one of those who persuaded Sarachchandra to show Maname at Lionel Wendt theatre’ I sniggered a little. I knew the Lionel Wendt audience of the 1950s. It was culturally insensitive, utterly ignorant, and wanting only to be seen at a ‘western’ cultural event. Why present Maname […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක  මෙම ලිපිය ඊයේ (2022 නොවැම්බර් 20වනදා) lankaweb හි පලවූ කාලාම සූත්‍රය තුල ප්‍රකටවන නාම-රෑප පරිච්ඡේදය” සමග සබදී. බුදුන්ගේ දහම ලොවේ සැමට පොදුවේ අදාල විය යුතුය. Universally applicable to all mankind. තතාගතයන් වහන්සේ ලොවේ එක් ජන කොටසක් සදහා පමනක් දේශනා කල දහමක් නැත. ජාති භාෂා ආගම් දේශසීමා ආදියෙන් බෙදී වෙන්වී පවතින ලොවකට පොදුවේ ගැලපෙන […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi Sri Lanka proposed to set up a group of Eminent Persons with a view to helping galvanize greater political will and to create further international awareness among states on the importance of combating terrorist financing, at the recently concluded 3rd No Money For Terror (NMFT) Ministerial Conference […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island General Secretary of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) Vasudeva Nanayakkara, MP, yesterday (20) said that the UNP had sold the urea plant at Sapugaskanda to a foreign buyer who set it up in an Arab country.Having brought the machinery as scrap iron the buyer had re-installed the machinery and […]

Sugath Kulatunga Rather than adopt export-led development and aim at a healthy balance of trade and payments and provide productive employment, all past governments resorted to devaluation and prolific borrowing as the remedy. The outcome of the multiple devaluations and IMF prescriptions has been negative as far as the trade balance is concerned. The LKR […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi On today’s BBC World service (19.11.22) they showed buses and cars running on liquid Hydrogen. This appears to be a new innovation perhaps initiated by tech companies or universities of the UK and is very relevant to the day’s happenings. COP27 is taking place in Egypt and Qatar is showcasing its financial clout […]

Sasanka De Silva  Pannipitiya Making it mandatory for children to come to school to get an education is a very outdated concept. Allowing them to attend school in any attire is the way forward. Some argue that the prescription is to make all children look equal, and class disparities will not matter then, but for […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera lanka C news | ධීවර බෝට්ටු සඳහා හරිත හයිඩ්‍රජන්… Sorry to say this  This is like LNG to be used as CNG to power cars like in many countries  Why all of a sudden Green hydrogen? Why cannot we develop Solar power on boats? Green hydrogen may have to be stored in […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක  භාහිර රෑප හැඩතලයේ ප්‍රතිබිම්භය පංචේන්ද්‍රියන්ගේ ප්‍රසාදනය වීමෙන් ‘ස්ඛන්ධ ක්‍රියාවලිය’ ආරම්භවන බවත් ඒ නිසාම සිතේ රෑප ලෝකය හටගන්නා බවත් අප දැන් දන්නෙමු. ඒ රෑප සංඥාව පෙර මතකය හා ගැලපීමෙන් (විතක්ක විචාර වීමෙන්) භාහිර රෑප හැඩතලයට අනූරෑප නාමය (අරෑප ලෝකය-world of labels) සිත තුල සංකාර වෙයි. විඤ්ඤාණයට හේතුවන මෙම සංකාරය භාහිර රෑප හැඩතලය පිළිබද සම්පූර්න දැනුම […]

“නීතියේ සිංහල නුගමුල” (මෙම කෙටි ලිපිය කියවීමට පෙර ලෝකයේ සිංහල ජනතාව මිලියන 18ක් බවත් දෙමළ ජනතාව මිලියන 80ක් බවට අදාල දත්තය දක්වමි.) සිංහල ව්‍යාපාරිකයන්ගේ ලංකාවට එන්න තියෙන ඩොලර් ප්‍රමණය, මිලියන 80ක් වූ ලෝකය පුරා විසිරී ඉන්නා දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ ව්‍යාපාරවල ආයෝජනය කිරීම හේතුවෙන්, එකී ඩොලර් ලංකාවට එන්නේ නැත. මේ උපයන ඩොලර් ආයෝජනය කර ඇති රටවල් සහ […]

Malinda Seneviratne There are two questions. First, does research really matter or rather does research drive decisions when it comes to policy planning? Second, what is the role or research institutes or, put another way, do policy-makers understand the worth of such bodies?   My friend Sugath Kulathunga raised an interesting point recently with regard to […]

Sufian Siddique New Horizons for Profitable Investments Manufacturing an essential adjunct to healthcare is important in any case. Because people’s lives are directly related to this wonderful product. Medicines play a direct or indirect role in ensuring the well-being and well-being of people by getting rid of human diseases and alleviating anxiety and restlessness. Therefore, […]

Courtesy The Island ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is likely to hold presidential election before any other polls after November 16 2023, three sources close to him said, as he seeks a $2.9 billion IMF loan to consolidate the economy which is on a slow recovery path from a crisis. Wickremesinghe was elected as […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් රට මුහුණ දී ඇති ණය අර්බුදයට ප්‍රධාන සාධකයක් වන්නේ ස්වෛරීත්ව බැඳුම්කර මත ලබාගත් ණය බව කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ ආර්ථික විද්‍යා අධ්‍යයනාංශයේ මහාචාර්ය ලලිතසිරි ගුණරුවන් පවසනවා. අර්බුදය, අයවැය සහ අනාගතය යන මැයෙන් මහවැලි කේන්ද්‍රයේ පැවති සම්මන්ත්‍රණයකට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු මේ අදහස් පළ කළා. මෙම සම්මන්ත්‍රණය පැවැත්වුණේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේනගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්.<br /><br />අර්බුදය, අයවැය […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Two women have been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for forging bank documents and defrauding Rs. 120 million from a Sri Lankan living in Norway.  The suspects, who are sisters aged 30 and 34 years, have been arrested in Jaffna by the CID, police said. They had allegedly defrauded the Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana The gazette notification pertaining to the lifting of the ban imposed on the import of the herbicide Glyphosate has been sent to the Government Printer, says the Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Gunadasa Samarasinghe. The Minister of Agriculture had decided to lift the ban on Glyphosate following inquiries made from various sectors […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS ‘Maname made its first appearance, not in Peradeniya but at the Lionel Wendt Theatre in Colombo. ‘I selected Lionel Wendt as it had a good stage and auditorium, also the facilities needed for the actors.  Its chairman, Harold Pieris gave me the hall free and it was shown for four days running,’ Sarachchandra […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS This essay is a revised version of the earlier essay titled EDIRIWEERA SARACHCHANDRA’S ‘MANAME’ (2015) ‘Maname’ was a landmark event in   Sinhala theatre. But the events leading up to it have received little attention. The emergence of ‘Maname’ at Peradeniya was no accident. The Arts faculty of the University of Ceylon was exposed […]

Chanaka Bandarage One – person, One – vote is a cardinal principle of representative democracy. This means every citizen is entitled to elect their own representative. It personifies that all people are equal. Casting the vote at an election is how the citizens participate in government. The MPs who get elected by the majority vote […]

Courtesy Outlook Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday said that he is keen to solve all issues, including land and housing, pertaining to the Tamil minority community in the country’s Northern Province by next year when the island nation celebrates its 75th anniversary of Independence. Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday said that […]

By Manohari Katugampala Courtesy Ceylon Today Nothing is impossible for the brave warrior of the nation who was born to a heroic mother. Several heroic sons were born on this island to eradicate this menace from the ‘suppressed communities’ of terrorism. When the time where the country was passing ‘years of blue’, the region of […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has assured immediate solutions to land, housing, health, irrigation, and agriculture-related issues in the Northern Province, the President’s Media Division (PMD) says. The Head of Stated also stated that 08 committees would be appointed at the provincial level to resolve the land issues. He pointed out that all the land-related […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe says the measures to strengthen the economy under a five-year plan are envisaged in the budget proposal for 2023 which has the potential to bring about a transformative economic change within the period between 2023 and 2027. He made this observation during the District Development Progress Review Meeting held at […]

Courtesy Adaderana A new consignment of 1,000 metric tonnes (100,000 packs) of rice donated by China reached Colombo Port this morning (Nov. 19). This rice consignment will be distributed to island-wide schools, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said in a tweet. According to the embassy, China has so far donated 7,000 metric tonnes of rice […]

Courtesy Adaderana The CESS tax proposed in the 2023 Budget is not applicable to stationery items and equipment used by schoolchildren, Finance State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says. He mentioned this while delivering a special statement in the parliament this morning (Nov. 19). He addressed the concerns raised about the increase in the prices of stationery […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara. Mahanuwara A nine-member experts’ committee was appointed to draft a new constitution, on the 3rd of Sept 2020. according to a Cabinet spokesman. President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva President’s Counsel Manohara de Silva (the only Constitutional Lawyer in the Committee) President’s Counsel Gamini Marapana President’s Counsel Sanjeewa Jayawardena President’s Counsel Samantha Ratwatte […]

Democracy At Work In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff talks about a new Congress report on huge US wealth inequality; Angela Merkel on relying on Russian oil and gas, the irrationality of 20,000 immigrants dumped on NYC, and Harvard exploiting its tax-exempt status. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr. Nomi Prins, […]

By Dr Tilak S Fernando Rishi Sunak became the first Asian Prime Minister in the UK on 7th November 2022, creating a world record in the history of politics. Liz Truss decided to give up the premiership due to the extreme pressure of the UK’s economic crisis, and she entered the history books as the […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක  භාහිරය (ලෝකය) සම්මතයට අයත්ය. එයට ගහකොල සතාසිව්පාවා මෙන්ම විශ්වය හා ස්වාභාවදහමද අයත්වේ. සුලඟ, ආලෝකය, උනුසුම, පීඩනය ආදි ස්වාභාවික සංසිද්ධීන් සියල්ලම සම්මතයේ ඇති භාහිර ලෝකයට අයත්ය. භාහිරය අසත්‍යයක් බොරැවක්බව සමහර දේශකයන් පවසනවිට මේ ස්වාභාව දහමේ සංසිද්ධීන් සියල්ලම අසත්‍යබව ඉන් කියවේ. මෙය සිදුවිය නොහැක්කකි. රහතන්වහන්සේ පිරිනිවන් මඤ්චකයට එළැබෙන තෙක්ම ස්වාභාවදහමේ ක්‍රියාවලියට ලක්වන සම්මත ලෝකයේ වැඩවසයි. […]