Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada Whenever adversity strikes, people look for  desperate solutions, and hurl their good senses to the winds. It is always public fear, or the fear of the unknown, that drives people to astrologers, occult sciences, offering to gods and spirits, deva-pooja and bali thovil”.  The Buddha had condemned these as thirashcheen vidya”. Another reason […]

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Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada. Tilak S. Fernando  has written to the Lankaweb (18/06/17) claiming that Dengue fever can be cured using homeopathic medicine. Not so long ago we had people who were also writing letters claiming that drinking the juice of Papaw leaves (Gaslabu” leaves) will cure those who are suffering from Dengaue, a dangerous  […]

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Bodhi Dhanapala Quebec, Canada March 24, 2017, 8:07 pm Kamal Wickremasinghe (KW), writing to The Island Newspaper, March 22nd begins by the claim that “Glyphosate of course is the active ingredient of the world’s most widely used herbicide Roundup, known to cause cancer and kidney disease in humans”. This presumptuous statement about cancer and kidney […]

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Bodhi Dhanapala Finally, an understanding of the aetiology of the mysterious disease that had been plaguing children  in poor agricultural areas in Northern India (Bihar etc), Bangladesh, Vietnam  etc., has been cracked, after 20  years of research. Young children used to develop fever, convulsions etc., usually during the season when harvests and fruits are gathered, […]

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By Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada  [A shorter version of this article appeared in the Island Newspaper, 29-Dec-2016] I read the exchange between Dr. U. Waidyanatha (UW) and Dr. Kamal Wickremasinghe in the Island newspaper (7. Dec to 28th Dec, Island) regarding the so-called plight of our farmers. What is the plight of farmers” that is […]

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