Shenali D Waduge US-India-China profane rivalry but are leading trade partners. They work together & in isolation as per their country agenda/goals & policies. Sri Lanka’s nicely documented policies are just that – it always gets changed with every new govt. Not many governments have had national plans to raise Sri Lanka & instead ends […]

Sugath Kulatunga 1.     Bring narcoterrorism under Terrorism Act. Colonial powers have used drugs and alcohol to weaken cultures and economies of countries throughout history. The use of opium to weaken China was a good example. In a more subtle way Arrack was used by the British to attack the culture of Buddhism in Ceylon. It […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Ceylon history was introduced as a subject to schools during the British period. Initially, pupils were only taught European history, and, as one commentator observed, pupils left school with the notion that ‘our ancestors were barbarians’.  Ceylon history should be introduced, it was suggested, so that pupils would be in a position to […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Jayatissa Bandaragoda’s biography titled    Path of destiny: autobiography of a farmer’s son’ was published in 2011 by Godage international. One reason I wrote this autobiography was to refer to some events relating to the ethnic issue in Trincomalee and elsewhere,” said Bandaragoda. This was a key motivating factor behind my autobiography.  I thought […]

Malinda Seneviratne Contour makes the bends bends make for pause feet stop and go and heart to footprint returns Roads are either slow or fast depending on road conditions, weather, traffic, the condition of the particular vehicle and the urgency or lack thereof of the person at the wheel. The same road can be fast […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D   සිංහල නම් ඇති පෙඩරල්කාරයින් හා දෙමළ නම් ඇති ක්‍රිස්තියානි ඊළම්කාරයින් සංවිධානාත්මකව කරගෙන යන ලිපි ලිවීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය නිසා මේ පංචස්කන්ධ ගැන සිංහල ජනයාට කරුණු එලිදරව් කිරීම මෙසේ සටහන් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමේ අරමුණ විය. මෙය ඒ සම්බන්ධ අවසාන ලිපියය. මෙම ලිපියෙන් සළකා බලන්නේ නිර්මලා නමැති වයසක කාන්තාවක් විග්නේශ්වරන්ගේ දෙමළ බෞද්ධයා ලණුව ගිලගෙන අමාරුවේ […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Now that two top-level people in Geological Survey and Marine Bureau ( GSMB ) are replaced by new people, the very first complaint published by the ex-chairman of the cement corporation, has landed on new bosses to handle We should seriously look into the possibility of value addition to our own mineral […]

Media Release  Sri Lanka High Commission in India Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda met with the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (EAC-PM) Dr. Bibek Debroy at the latter’s office in New Delhi and had an exchange of views. The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime […]

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Courtesy Adaderana In order to switch to organic fertilisers, Sri Lanka yet again relied on a Chinese company, only to get deceived in the end as the organic fertilizer supplied could not pass the two rounds of the National Plant Quarantine Services (NPQS) test due to high contamination.  Moreover, the Chinese firm also pressurized Sri […]