e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com Before you study the economics, study the economists!” e-Con e-News 04-10 May 2025 The French warship Beautemps-Beaupré has just barged into Colombo – so far from gay Paree and le port de Marseille. And while India (using French & US weaponry) and Pakistan (using US, Chinese & Swedish materiel) indulge in target practice on […]

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Shenali D Waduge A 15-year-old girl named Amshi—brilliant, talented, and full of promise—is dead. She took her own life after being sexually abused three times by her teacher at Ramanathan Hindu Ladies College in Colombo. Instead of being protected, she was forced to be removed from school by the very principal who should have defended her. […]

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By Garvin Karunaratne, former GA Matara  It is reported that a number of leading countries including the USA and India want to wrest control of our graphite. I have read somewhere that our graphite is of superb quality- something like the best in the World.. Because we are buried in the quagmire of debt and […]

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German Dharmaduta Society Vietnamese Bhiksuni Dr. Bich Lien greets  President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Bhiksuni Dr. Bich Lien  also known as Ven Bhikkhuni Elizabeth Sujata The American Vietnamese Bhiksuni Dr. Bich Lien  also known as Ven Bhikkhuni Elizabeth Sujata is seen greeting President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Conference Hall in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly […]

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Shenali D Waduge Two young lives lost—one a university student, the other a schoolgirl in Kotahena. These are not isolated tragedies. They are searing warnings that Sri Lankan society is spiraling into a moral crisis. A breakdown is underway—of values, of accountability, of conscience. Behind every funeral lies a failing: in our families, our schools, […]

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Dr. Neil Fernando & Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Suicide is a psychiatric emergency and needs immediate intervention. It has been recognized as a major health problem and a leading cause of death worldwide. Suicide does not occur in a vacuum; it’s a fatal outcry and a highly complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Suicide is the most […]

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මනුකා විජේසිංහ May 2, 2025 සංස්කාරක Comments Offon අහිංසාවාදයට සිදුවූයේ කුමක්ද?(2) නව ලිබරල්වාදය ස්වමාංශ භක්ෂණය අරඹා තිබේ. දැන් ඔවුහු දරුවන් මරාදමමින් සිටිති. (What Happened To Ahimsa? යන ලිපි පෙළේ  – Neoliberalism Has Turned Inwards – It Is Killing Its Children යන මැයෙන් පළවු 2 වන කොටසේ පරිවර්තනය) 1 කොටස ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය නම් හොල්මනක් ගැන ප්‍රචාරක ව්‍යාපාරයක් ගෙන යන අතරම ස්වෛරී […]

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මනුකා විජේසිංහ April 30, 2025 සංස්කාරක Comments Offon අහිංසාවාදයට සිදු වූයේ කුමක්ද? (1) ජාතික විමුක්ති ව්‍යාපාරයන්ට එරෙහි අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයේ රහසිගත මෙහෙයුම්: බණ්ඩාරනායක ඝාතනය සහ නොබැඳි ව්‍යාපාරයේ බිඳ වැටීම මනුකා විජේසිංහ (මෙම ලිපිය මනුකා විජේසිංහ විසින් ලියන ලද What Happened To Ahimsa? – From Ahimsa To Democracy & Non-Alignment To Gender Ideology යන ලිපියේ පළමු කොටසේ පරිවර්තනයයි.) තමන් විසින් මෙහෙයවන ලද කාලිංඝ […]

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Business reporter, BBC News The UK and the US have reached a deal over tariffs on some goods traded between the countries. President Donald Trump’s blanket 10% tariffs on imports from countries around the world still applies to most UK goods entering the US. But the deal has reduced or removed tariffs on some of […]

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