Chanaka Bandarage General Spitting and expectorate (eg. phlegm, mucus) People do not care about spitting in public places.  They have become accustomed to it. They will continue to do it freely and openly, without fear.  It is very bad for sanitary and health reasons. Their actions cause environmental pollution/public nuisance.  It is very bad for […]

Chanaka Bandarage Article 70 (1) of the Constitution – ‘The President may by Proclamation, summon, prorogue and dissolve Parliament’. The law is very clear, the President has clear power to dissolve the Parliament (Article 33 (1) also provides this power. Accordingly, the President issued a gazette notification on 2 March 2020 dissolving the Parliament.    […]

Chanaka Bandarage There is widespread condemnation of clearance of the precious Wilpattu National Park to resettle Muslim IDPs. If the allegation is true, the last two governments (2010 – 2019), and the ex-Muslim Minister who is in the centre of the allegation, have committed a serious offence.  News emanating from the North now shows that […]

Chanaka Bandarage Galle Face Green was established in 1859 by Governor Sir Henry Ward, for the sole purpose of recreation.  A 1.6 km long promenade was constructed along the oceanside, especially with the purpose of ladies and children to saunter and take in the air. Galle Face originally was spread over a much larger area than […]

Chanaka Bandarage The previous government signed an agreement with a Chinese bank to obtain funds to build a Light Rail system from Malabe to Fort via Borella.  This is only the first stage of the proposed project. The idea was to eventually cover the whole of Colombo with Light Rail. The estimated cost for stage […]

Chanaka Bandarage Even before the Portuguese’ arrival, Pettah had been a major trading place.  Due to its proximity to Colombo Port (Kolom Thota), the Kotte kings erected warehouses in Pettah to store spices, vegetables, fruits, grains, ivory and timber geared for export. Pettah (also, Fort) used to station tusker elephants that Sri Lanka (then Sinhale) […]

Chanaka Bandarage Muslim bashing is fashionable in Sri Lanka. Muslim bashing is considered politically correct in Sri Lanka. Muslims are a minority in this country. They comprised less than 10% of the population. Muslims congregate in groups. They wear garments that are specific to them. They live within closely knitted communities. They help each other […]

Chanaka Bandarage Is Sunil Rathnayake innocent? If Sunil Rathnayake received a Presidential pardon just because the previous President pardoned convicted Tamil Tigers, it is not a good reason for the pardon. ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’. The President, who is also the ex-Defence Secretary, would not have released Sunil Rathnayake unless that was the […]

Chanaka Bandarage After the war, all governments have miserably failed to settle the displaced Sinhalese (numbering about 50,000) in the Northern province.  In the past five years, the governments have embarked on a massive ‘Sanhindiyawa’ campaign, placing lots of onus on the Sinhalese to embrace Tamil culture and Tamil way of life. For this, a […]

Chanaka Bandarage The government should be commended for imposing a 24 hour, island-wide curfew. It was a brave decision.  Sri Lanka is possibly the first country in the world to impose a 24 hour, island-wide curfew. We are also one of the first countries in the world to shut down schools. Many countries have followed […]

Chanaka Bandarage This Part is prepared basically to respond to comments made by readers in the two earlier articles about this topic. Within our country, we can say anything.  We can glorify ourselves and of course, everyone will be happy. But, the facts asserted must be 100% true. Also, the rest of the world must […]

Chanaka Bandarage This write-up is posted in Lankaweb with a view to further clarify the article that I posted in Lankaweb on 10 March 2020, titled ‘Distortion of Our History’. I reproduce from the Grade 6 and 10 textbooks where the history is wrong or questionable (the Sinhala texts below): Please note that the italicized texts […]

Chanaka Bandarage Prabhakaran was hell-bent on distorting Sri Lanka’s history. He launched a campaign with Anton Balasingham in the helm to attack Mahavansa. The LTTE discounted Vijaya’s arrival (more than 2500 years ago) and stressed that Tamils are Sri Lanka’s indigenous people.  According to them, Buddhism existed in Sri Lanka prior to Mahindagamanaya and that […]

Chanaka Bandarage The British Conservative Party election manifesto in page 53 states: We will continue to support international initiatives to achieve reconciliation, stability and justice across the world, and in current or former conflict zones such as Cyprus, Sri Lanka and the Middle East, where we maintain our support for a two-state solution”. The text […]

Chanaka Bandarage JR Jayawardane stated that in the Constitution that he drafted in 1978 he could do anything except, ‘change a man into a woman and vice versa’. When the Executive Presidency was introduced, Dr NM Perera asked the question If an insane person becomes a president, what would be the state of the country?” […]

Chanaka Bandarage It is Sinhala infighting that will bringforth the country’s downfall and creation of the Eelam Denying the Sinhalese the right to live in most parts of the north and the east and other acts of discrimination against them in those areas is the biggest problem that Sri Lanka faces today Sri Lanka is […]

Chanaka Bandarage Dr NM Perera balanced his budgets largely by increasing alcohol and cigarette prices. Worldwide, governments use alcohol to increase its revenue base.  Very seldom would a government lower the price of alcohol. In the recently delivered budget, Sri Lanka went against this trend and reduced the price of beer. This is very strange. […]

Chanaka Bandarage The current Northern Provincial Council (NPC) is a racist government. The NPC discriminates against the Sinhalese in the North. At the moment the NPC does not have the Land and Police powers (under the 13th  Amendment, the Land and Police powers were granted to the provincial governments; but JR Jayawardane, realising the danger, […]

Chanaka Bandarage The British ruled Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) for 150 years. During that period both the Sinhalese and the Tamils lived as British subjects. There are no records that the Tamils like now were then demanding more power for themselves. When Sri Lanka received independence in 1948, the British acknowledged that the North and […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ 27/10/2017 දින ලංකාවෙබ් හී පළවූ ‘Sinhalese should be allowed and encouraged to settle in the North’ යන ලිපියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය, මුල් ලේඛකයා විසින්ම හැඳින්වීම                                                            […]

Chanaka Bandarage  Introduction The Sinhalese are continuously being denied from settling in the North by Tamil politicians.  This has been a systematic, very successful campaign by them for more than 60 years. The irony is that the Southern politicians do not want to acknowledge and rectify this racist policy. The recent rhetoric of some TNA […]

Chanaka Bandarage Reports by the Parliament’s six sub committees Undoubtedly the reports published in 2016 by the Parliament’s six sub committees on constitutional reform are most damaging and frightening. They threaten the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nation. Among  the  proposals are giving land and police powers to the provinces.  This means the Chief […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා සහයෝගිතා කණ්ඩායම srilankasupportgroup@bigpond.com  යෝජනාවලට අනුව, නව ආණ්ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවෙන් අවසානයේදී බිහි වෙන්නේ ඊලාම් රාජ්‍යයකි: 1987, 13වෙනි සංශෝධනයෙන් පසුව වත් නොලැබුණු ඉඩම්, පොලිස්‌, මුදල් බලතල පළාත් සභාවලට දීමට යාම. රටේ ඉඩම් අයිතිය/පාලනය සහ කළමනාකරණය මුළුමනින්ම පළාත්සභා වලට. එනම්, උතුරේ මහා ඇමතිට ඕන නම් තමිල්නාඩුවේ  අයට වුනත් ඉඩම්?  සිංහලයන්ට උතුරු/නැගෙනහිර අළුතෙන් ඉඩම් අයිතිවාසිකම්  අහිමි […]

Chanaka Bandarage  Some difficulties  faced by them: Dehiwatte Village– this is a remote village about 45 km south from the Trincomalee town. It is about 40 km south west  of Kantale town. Like many areas in the East, Dehiwatte is a traditional Sinhalese Buddhist village. There are  Buddhist artifacts found in Dehiwatte area, nearly 2000 […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා සහයෝගිතා කණ්ඩායම srilankasupportgroup@bigpond.com යෝජිත නව ආණ්ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවෙන් අවසානයේදී බිහි වෙන්නේ ඊලාම් රාජ්‍යයකි: 1987, 13වෙනි සංශෝධනයෙන් පසුව වත් නොලැබුණු ඉඩම්, පොලිස්‌, මුදල් බලතල පළාත් සභාවලට දීමට යාම. රටේ ඉඩම් අයිතිය/පාලනය සහ කළමනාකරණය මුළුමනින්ම පළාත්සභා වලට. එනම්, උතුරේ මහා ඇමතිට ඕන නම් තමිල්නාඩුවේ  අයට වුනත් ඉඩම්?  සිංහලයන්ට උතුරු/නැගෙනහිර අළුතෙන් ඉඩම් අයිතිවාසිකම්  අහිමි වේවි? […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ  15/10/2015 දින මෙම වෙබ්අඩවියේ පළවූ ‘15/10/1505 (510 years ago to date) is the day that the Portuguese first landed in Colombo, Sri Lanka’ යන ලිපියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය 1505 වසරේ ඔක්තෝබර් මස මැද සමයේ කපිතාන් ලොරෙන්සෝ ද අල්මේදාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් යුධ නැව් 9ක් ඉන්දියාවේ කල්කටාවෙන් සහ ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ මාලදිවයින් දුපත් වලින් තම නැව් සඳහා […]

Chanaka Bandarage Towards mid October 1505, the Portuguese Naval Captain, Lorenzo De Almeida, aka Don Lorenzo, who manned a fleet of nine war ships, had decided to return to Portugal  as he could not secure marine rope from the Islands of Maldives or Calcutta in India. Almeida was not aware of the existence of the […]

Chanaka Bandarage During the 1956 election campaign Bandaranaike promised to make Sinhala the only Official language.  But, after he came to power he was slow to implement the promise. Staunch protests were initiated by nationalists including a fast to death demonstration by AP Jayasuriya MP, which was strongly supported by KMP Rajarathne MP and Wimala […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ සැප්තැම්බර් 17 වෙනි දිනට යෙදෙන අනගාරික ධර්ම දිනය වෙනුවෙනි ධර්මපාල විරෝධීන් සහ වෙනත් මථධාරීන්  ධර්මපාල තුමා සටන් කලේ සිංහළ බෞද්ධයන්ට පමණක් යයි කියත්.  මෙය තරමක් වැරදි සහගත වූ කියමනකි.  ධර්මපාලතුමාගේ සෑම ලිපියකම, කතාවකම පාහේ එවකට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව බලෙන් පාලනය කළ බ්‍රිතාන්‍යය අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී පාලනයට සිය විරෝධය ප්‍රකාශ කර තිබුණි.  එනම්, ඔහු සෑම ශ්‍රීලාංකිකයෙක් වෙනුවෙන්ම […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ ‘ඔබ` නැතුව ඔබ එක්ක’ නමින් චිත්‍රපටියක් මේ දිනවල ප්‍රදර්ශනය වේ.  මේ චිත්‍රපටිය බටහිර රටවල ජාත්‍යාන්තර සිනමා උළෙලන්හිදී සම්මාන පිට සම්මාන ලබා ඇතැයි මේ චිත්‍රපටියේ නිෂ්පාදකවරු පවසති.  ඒ කථාව ඇත්තය. ඉදිරියේදී තවත් බටහිර ජාත්‍යාන්තර සිනමා උළෙලන්හිදී සම්මාන පිට සම්මාන මෙම චිත්‍රපටය විසින් ලබාගනු නිසැකය. මේ චිත්‍රපටිය දේශ අහිතෛෂී එකකි. ඒ මන්ද? මේ චිත්‍රපටියේ කතාව […]