චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ 6/9/2015 දින ලංකාවෙබ් හී පළවූ ‘Sri Lanka should be the Hong Kong of India යන ලිපියේ (සංශෝධන සහිත) සිංහල පරිවර්තනයයි හොංකොං දේශය චීනයේ කරපිටින් ගොස් ධනවත්වු බව කිසිවෙක් විවාදයෙන් තොරව පිළිගන්නා  සත්‍යයකි (චීන විප්ලවයෙන් පසු 1940 අග භාගයේදී හොංකොං වේගවත් සහ සාර්ථක කාර්මිකත්වයට පත්ව, ධනවත් රටක් බවට පත් විය). ඩේන් ෂියාඕ පෙන් විසින් […]

Chanaka Bandarage No one would disagree that Hong Kong rode to its prosperity on the back of China (after the Chinese Revolution, Hong Kong underwent a rapid and successful process of industrialization, from the late 1940s, and became a rich nation). After the liberalisation of China’s trade (Chairman Deng’s Open Door Policy’ in the late […]

Chanaka Bandarage Politicians love megaprojects. They know it is not their money that they spend.  In megaprojects, they often enrich themselves through massive commissions and other unethical ways. At the end of the megaproject, they revel in trying to obtain the credit for themselves, even if it was a failure. According to Professor Bent Flyvbjerg […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ (ඉන්දියාවේ New Buddhist සඟරාව ඇසුරුණි, ජුලි 2015 ප්‍රකාශය.  මෙම සිංහළ පරිවර්තනය, මුල් ඉංග්‍රීසි ලිපිය ලිවූ ලේඛකයාම විසින්ම කරන ලද්දකි) ධර්මපාලතුමා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මහත්මා ගාන්ධිද?  මෙහි සත්‍යතාවක් ඇත. ධර්මපාලතුමා වැඩියෙන්ම සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් වෙනුවෙන් කතා කළ බව ඇත්තය. නමුත්, ගාන්ධි තුමා මෙන් ඔහුද  බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය යටත්විදිතවාදීන්ට විරුද්ධව තදින්ම සටන් කළේය. බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයෝ එවකට, ධර්මපාලතුමා ජීවත්ව සිටි කාලයේ […]

Chanaka Bandarage Courtesy – ‘New Buddhist’, India (July 2015 edition) Is Anagarika Dharmapala the Mahatma Gandhi of Sri Lanka?  There is a truth in this statement. True, Dharmapala spoke largely for the Singhalese Buddhists.  But, like Gandhi, Dharmapala too fought fiercely against British imperialism (the British were ruiling Sri Lanka during his lifetime (1864 – […]

Chanaka Bandarage Sri Lanka Support Group deeply regrets the sudden passing away of Don Randall, Australian MP. Don died of a massive heart attack on Tuesday 21 July2015,while driving his car in his electorate of Canning.  He was driving to attend a duty as an MP. The whole of Australia is shocked about the sudden […]

Chanaka Bandarage It is estimated that closer to 200 elephants are being killed by humans in Sri Lanka each year. About the same number of elephants die from natural causes. At present the elephant birth rate is lower than the mortality rate, thus, it will be of no surprise if future generations are asked to […]

  Chanaka Bandarage By late 18th Century, the mighty British were ruiling pockets of Sri Lanka; despite strenuous attempts  they were unsuccessful in taking over the whole country. During this time they had taken over the reins from the Dutch, yet, a major portion of the country was ruled and controlled by the Sinhala, Buddhist […]

Sri Lanka Support Group After the introduction of provincial governments through the 13th amendment in 1987 (addition of an entirely new layer of government), Sri Lanka today is considered one of the highest governed countries in the world. There were 168 MPs in the parliament in 1977 (with zero national list MPs), by 1989 the […]

Chanaka Bandarage The writer had worked numerous times with the Great SL Gunasekera, and takes pride identifying himself as a close friend of SL. For over 30 years SL was engaged in the struggle against Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka. Many times he was the lone voice against Tamil terrorism, especially in the legal scene. […]