Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon CEO/Free Lawyers  Free Lawyers Sri Lanka expresses deep concern over the Government’s continued delay in filling vacancies in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, alongside reported moves to extend the retirement age of judges in these courts by two years. These actions risk undermining judicial independence, exacerbating case backlogs, and eroding public […]

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, As the United States marks its 250th anniversary—a testament to endurance, sacrifice, and democratic aspiration—it does so under a dark and foreboding shadow. At this defining moment, the nation finds itself led not by steadiness or vision, but by a figure whose erratic conduct, corrosive narcissism, and moral decay mock the very […]

මූලාශ්‍රය: AI දළ විශ්ලේෂණය ‘නැවත ඉපදුණු’ ක්‍රිස්තියානි මිෂනාරි නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් ක්‍රිකට් පරිවර්තන කමිටුව, DRS කර්තෘත්වය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පිටුපසට පිහියෙන් ඇන, ක්‍රිකට් සහ තවත් බොහෝ ක්‍රීඩා වල ඉතා සාර්ථක ‘ක්‍රීඩකයා – යොමු කිරීමේ’ (DRS) ක්‍රමයේ බෞද්ධ සිංහල නිර්මාතෘගේ සාධාරණ ප්‍රකාශයන් සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කළ ඩේවිඩ් බෙකර් (දකුණු අප්‍රිකානු ක්‍රිස්තියානි) තෝරා ගැනීමට මූලික සැබෑ හේතුව ආගමික අනුග්‍රහයද? […]

Sam Ben-Meir Never has fantasy been more commercially successful. Yet it is not obvious that it has become more imaginative. Long before the rise of the modern novel, fairy tales provided generations of listeners and readers with images of transformation, justice, adventure, and hope. They offered something more than entertainment. They opened windows onto worlds […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Japan’s decision to provide approximately US$3 billion (¥480 billion) in long-term support for the ACME Group–IHI Corporation Green Ammonia Project in Odisha is a significant milestone, not only for India but for the entire Asian region. It demonstrates how governments can work with the private sector to accelerate investment in emerging industries […]

Source:  AI Overview Is religious favoritism the underlying true reason for the ‘ Born Again’ Christian missionary led Cricket Transformative Committee to choose David Becker ( South African Christian) who has stabbed Sri Lanka in the back over DRS authorship, and reject outright the reasonable claims of the Buddhist Sinhalese inventor of the highly successful […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Quote Advertisement by EDB  Schedule of Requirement (SOR) PROMOTION OF SRI LANKA’S MARINE AND OFFSHORE SERVICES SECTORGLOBALLY THROUGH THE ENGAGEMENT OF A PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM 1. Background Quote  PROMOTION OF SRI LANKA’S MARINE AND OFFSHORE SERVICES SECTOR GLOBALLY THROUGH THE ENGAGEMENT OF A PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM 1. Background The Marine and Offshore […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Blue Economy advocate  1 Sri Lanka’s ancient reservoirs are a national asset 2. Which reservoirs generate hydropower? Only a relatively small number of the larger modern reservoirs are used primarily for hydropower, including: Most of the ancient reservoirs—including Parakrama Samudraya, Kala Wewa, Minneriya Tank, Kaudulla Tank and Nachchaduwa Tank—continue to serve mainly irrigation […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lanka’s investment policy framework needs to be fundamentally changed at the top level if the country is serious about attracting foreign direct investment and accelerating industrial growth.  At present, too many decisions are being shaped through committees that are heavily dominated by government officials, while the private sector is brought is […]

Sarath Obeysekera Chairman Advisory Board Marine and Offshore industry development Duminda Hulangamuwa ‘s extensive experience in finance, taxation, corporate governance, and economic policy, together with his close involvement in national economic reforms, gives renewed hope that the BOI can once again become the country’s premier investment promotion agency. His stated intention to restore the BOI’s authority and transform […]

AI overview Sri Lanka Cricket fans and legal advocates are deeply disappointed with the Sri Lanka Cricket Transformation Committee (CTC) for failing to lobby the International Cricket Council (ICC) for official recognition of Senaka Weeraratna, the Colombo-based lawyer who conceptualized the Player Referral system (the blueprint for today’s DRS). Public backlash intensified significantly because the […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර ලේකම් සහ ශ්‍රී ලන්කා පරිපාලනසේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-94)) මේ රටේ පලාත්සභා ඡන්දය වහාම පවත්වන්මෙන් කෑමොර දෙන දේශපාලකයින් ඇතුලු සියලුම පිස්සන් ජීවිතාන්තය දක්වා යැවිය යුත්තේ අන්ගොඩටය. එසේත් නැතිනම් ඔවුන් දේශද්‍රෝහීන්, ජාතිද්‍රෝහීන් සහ බෞද්ධ විරෝධීන් වශයෙන් වහාම මේ පින් බිමෙන් යළි කිසිදාක ආපසු ආ නොහැකි පිටසක්වලකටම පිටුවහල් කළ […]

සමායෝජක – වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන 36වන නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන(සිංහල මාධ්‍ය – නීති සටහන් ලබා දේ)  ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83වන ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (ආ) ඡේදයේ දෝෂයක් ඇති බව නීතිපති පිළිගෙන තිබියදී එය නිවැරදි නොකර, විනිසුරුවරුන්ගේ විශ්‍රාම වයස වැඩි කරන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් ජනමතවිචාරණයකින් තොරව නීතියක් කළ හැකිද? * * Can a constitutional amendment that […]

By: Rohana R. Wasala Sri Lanka and Israel are facing similar existential threats. The two comparatively small sovereign states have the most ancient roots in the history of human civilization, principally due to their maritime connection to other countries. Both states are today parliamentary democracies with multiethnic and multicultural populations, each benignly dominated by a […]

AI Overview The structural foundation of the Player-Referral System, globally commercialized as the Decision Review System (DRS) in cricket and echoed through challenge systems across multiple sports, is rooted directly in judicial architecture and legal jurisprudence. The blueprint was authored in 1997 by Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna, who used his formal legal training to […]

Dr. Arun Kumar Goswami* Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah’s mangled corpse was being paraded on the back of an elephant through the alleys and markets of Murshidabad! The purpose was to inform the residents of Murshidabad that Siraj had been killed! Proximity to, distance from, and strategies of power sealed the fate of Bengal vis-à-vis Indian subcontinent and, […]

Senaka Weeraratna There  is a well known saying ‘ If you want to study Economics first study the lives of the Economists’. Likewise the same principle is applicable to the investigation of the story behind the myth that the Buddha (Prince Siddhartha) was born in Sri Lanka and not in India (or Nepal). Who are […]

Sarath Obeysekera During this Vesak season, I witnessed a scene that left me with mixed feelings.Near my home in a suburban neighbourhood, where middle-income, lower-middle-income and low-income families live side by side, I saw a long queue of people waiting patiently for a free kottu dansal. Entire families stood in line.There is nothing wrong with […]