Shenali D Waduge Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith’s recent statement warning against legalizing same-sex marriage and LGBTQIA+ ideology in Sri Lanka is not merely a religious outcry — it is a national alarm echoed by the majority of the populace heard across party lines, faiths, and generations. The President’s response echoes the opposite, and demands a far […]

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Shenali D Waduge Silent Agents, Sold Nation: How Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty Is Being Traded by Its OwnA deep dive into how political elites are enabling foreign capture of Sri Lanka’s national assets — one MoU, one silent betrayal at a time. Sovereignty is not always lost in battle. Sometimes, it is surrendered in silence — through […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ මහාවංශය සඳහන් කරනුයේ – පිරිනිවන් මංචකයේ හොත්තාවූ බුදුන් වහන්සේ ශක්‍රයා අමතා ‘සිංහබා පිත් තෙල විජය කුමර අනගත සත් සියයක් පිරිවර ඇතිව ලාට රටින් ලක්දිව් බැසේය. දේවේන්ද්‍රය, මාගේ සස්න ලක්දිව්හි පිහිටන්නේය. එහෙයින් පිරිවර සහිත උහුද ලංකාවද මොනවට රකුව’ යි වදාළ සේක.” මහාවංශයට අනුව සිංහලේ රාජ්‍යය බිහි වූයේ  මෙයට වසර 2507  කට පෙර – ක්‍රි […]

National Development Bank PLC NDB Bank, in collaboration with the National Credit Guarantee Institution Limited (NCGI) and Hatch Works, recently hosted a focused awareness session at Hatch Innovation Hub in Colombo to introduce Sri Lankan startups to the benefits of the NCGI-backed loan guarantee facility. This initiative marked a significant step in expanding access to […]

ප්‍රියන්ත ප්‍රදීප් රණසිංහ ප්‍රියන්ත ප්‍රදීප් රණසිංහ විසින් ‘ණය ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව – සිරස්තලවලින් ඔබ්බට’ යන නමින්  සිංහලට නගා නිෂ්පාදනය කළ, බීනා සාර්වාගේ  ‘Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka – Beyond the Headlines’ අන්තර්ජාතික වාර්තා චිත්‍රපටයේ, එම සිංහල අනුවාදය, මේ මස (ජූලි 30) ප.ව. 4.00 ට, කොළඹ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා පුවත්පත් ආයතනයේදී ප්‍රදර්ශනය කෙරේ. එම අවස්ථාවට මුල් චිත්‍රපටය […]

Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe The Sinhala version of the Beena Sarwar’s  international documentary film ‘Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka – Beyond the Headlines’, produced by Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe under the title  ‘ණය ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව – සිරස්තලවලින් ඔබ්බට” (26 Minutes), will be screened at the Sri Lanka Press Institute, Colombo, this month (July 30) at 4.00 […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය පක්‍ෂ මූලස්ථානයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවේ දී එම පක්ෂ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා දැක් වූ අදහස් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. ජනාධිපතිතුමා ජර්මනියේ යෑමට පෙර එතුමා ජර්මනියේ යන්නේ කොටි නායක නෙදියවන් හමු වෙන්න කියලා සමාජ මාධ්‍ය වල කතාවක් පැතිරුණා. ඒ වගේම ජනාධිපතිතුමා ජර්මානු ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්‍රධානියා වන චාන්සලර්වරයා හමු වෙන්නේ නෑයි […]

 BY Sumudu Chamara Courtesy The Morning The main Opposition, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), alleged that the Government has not appointed educationists to support the proposed education reforms and has not reached out to the parties that can significantly contribute to these reforms. This was stated during a press briefing held yesterday (28) at the […]

BY Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy The Morning Major General Aruna Jayasekera (Retired) functioning in the post of Deputy Defence Minister, could impact the credibility of the investigations into the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, the Catholic Church stated, urging President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the Government to make an ‘appropriate’ decision on the matter. Several Opposition […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 28 (Daily Mirror) – President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) National Organiser Namal Rajapaksa happened to be on board the same flight to the Maldives today.  The President was heading for Male on a state visit at the invitation of his Maldivian counterpart, whereas Rajapaksa […]

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana, Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, July 28 (Daily Mirror) – Whilst an extensive public debate is being carried out on the government’s education reforms, the Sectoral Oversight Committee on education has decided to seek the assistance of experts who have been involved in compiling education reforms in the past. The […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 28 (Daily Mirror) – Retired MPs Collective is contemplating legal action if MPs pension is abolished, its secretary Premasiri Manage said. “There are 30 ex-JVP MPs who have retired and are depending on the pension. Also, he said there are 50 JVP MPs who have given up public service […]

Maathalan – (මාතලන්)

Dr. Mayim Bialik

Udaya Gammanpila

Shenali D Waduge In just five months, the JVP-NPP-led government under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake signed 35 agreements with India — the largest, fastest foreign policy shift in Sri Lanka’s post-independence history. What was promised as a new era of transparency, sovereignty, and people-first governance has instead raised urgent questions: This is not partnership. This is strategic entrapment. […]

Shenali Waduge Part 1https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/part-1-the-35-india-sri-lanka-agreements-under-president-anura-kumara-dissanayake-dec-2024-apr-2025/The agreements Part 2https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/part-2-strategic-impact-assessment-of-the-35-agreements-signed-between-sri-lanka-and-india-dec-2024-apr-2025/ Impact of the 35 agreements on Sri Lanka’s sovereignty Part 3https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/part-3-35-indo-lanka-agreements-strategic-entrapment-or-regional-partnership/  How Sri Lanka is now trapped by these 35 agreements Part 4https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/part-4-35-indo-lanka-agreements-from-anti-imperialism-to-indian-alignment/35 Indo-Lanka Agreements- JVPs new stance Part 5https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/part-5-35-indo-lanka-agreements-unconstitutional-legal-and-sovereignty-concerns/Legal & constitutional concerns Part 6https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/part-6-35-indo-lanka-agreements-geopolitical-risks-strategic-precedents-the-indian-footprint-in-sri-lanka/Geopolitical risks for Sri Lanka Part 7https://www.shenaliwaduge.com/part-7-35-indo-lanka-agreements-an-urgent-appeal-to-the-jvp-npp-leadership/Urgent Appeal to the President & JVP/NPP