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Saturday, March 5th, 2022
Chandre Dharmawardana This alleged ‘unreliability of solar and wind energy’ is a matter brought up repeatedly by the CEB, and was also brought up by even knowledgeable commentators, like Dr. Kumar David, a professor of electrical engineering. The unreliability exists if you rely on the sun shining on one or two large installations. But, if […]
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Sunday, January 16th, 2022
Chandre Dharmawardana The following article appeared in the newspaper morning.lk.I have added my comments in bold italic regarding the contents of the article. Chandre DW Banned pesticides in well water linked to declines in kidney function: Study By Beyond Pesticides (Beyond Pesticides is a non-profit organisation headquartered in Washington, D.C., which works with allies in […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
By Chandre Dharmawardana Courtesy The Island It was mystifying to read Professor Kulasooriya’s article Don’t deride Sri Lankan scientists”, (Island, 29/11/2021) because it is not clear who has derided Sri Lankan scientists. By Sri Lankan” scientists, did he exclude expatriate Sri Lankan citizens, dual citizens and others as being fair game for derision? For many […]
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
By CHANDRE DHARMAWARDANA Canada Courtesy The Island Not so long ago, Champika Ranavaka championed a hair-brained project known as Polipto”, to make petrol from waste polythene. Ranawaka also pushed the Toxin-Free Nation” programme, and one of his university mates ran a project with the acronym SEMA. It championed the new vision” from the presidential secretariat […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
Chandre Dharmawardana, writing from Canada Sri Lanka is heading towards an agricultural disaster similar to that created by Stalin who was guided by a so-called Dialectical Materialist” version of agricultural science announced by Lysenko, a party scientist”. Sri Lanka’s leaders also have ideologues who have various scientific and medical backgrounds and are ready to present justifications” for […]
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Friday, October 29th, 2021
By Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. Courtesy The Island The rationale for banning agro-chemicals in May 2021 and going all organic” was mostly the claimed (but false) poisoning of the food chain” by chemicals”. It was well known that organic farming even at its best can only supply a tiny fraction of any nation’s food requirements, unless […]
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Friday, October 29th, 2021
චන්ද්රේ ධර්මවර්ධන විසිනි කැනඩාව. උපුටා ගැන්ම The Island සංශෝධිත ගූගල් පරිවර්තනයක්. 2021 මැයි මාසයේදී කෘෂි රසායන තහනම් කිරීම සහ සියලු කෘෂි රසායනයක්ම කාබනික ද්රව්යවලට යාම” යන තාර්කිකත්වය බොහෝ දුරට ප්රකාශ කරන ලද්දේ “රසායන ද්රව්ය මගින් ආහාර දාමයට විෂ වීම” යන (නමුත් අසත්ය) විශ්වාස මත විය. ජනගහනයෙන් අඩක් අඩු කිරීම සහ සියල්ලන්ටම නිර්මාංශ වීමට බල කිරීම […]
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2021
By Chandre Dharmawardana.National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa and Department of Physics and Astronomy Université de Montreal. The largest drain on Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange earnings is in purchasing fossil fuels for power and transport, and in feeding the 22 million people who depend on a mere million hectares of arable land, as compared to […]
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Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada Many English newspapers, and even some Sinhalese language newspapers have carried news items with headlines like Mullaitivu and Jaffna courts prohibit Mahaviru commemorations”, Court orders to prohibit Mahaveer Commemorations”. To unthinkingly take over the narrative and vocabulary of the pro-Tiger activists and use them in news items and headlines is a corruption […]
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Thursday, November 26th, 2020
චන්ද්ර ධර්මවර්දන විසිනි මේ නොබෝ දා පුවත් පත් වල පල වූ ශීර්ෂ තල අනුව මුලතිවු (මූලදූව ) සහ ජාපනය උසාවි මගීන් “මාවීර අනුස්මරණ උත්සව” පැවැත්වීම තහනම් කොට ඇත. එම අන්දමේ පුවත් පල කරන විට එවැනි ත්රස්තයන් ට “මාවීර” වැනි ගෞරව පූර්වක නාමයන් නොදිය යුතුය. ඔවුන් හින්සාව සහ ත්රස්තයෙන් වියරු වැටුනු, එනම් පිස්සු වැටුනු, මාර චේතනා […]
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Monday, November 23rd, 2020
Chandre Dharnawardana The 26th of November is the Birthday of the dreaded leader of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who was shot dead in 2009. Prabhakaran assassinated the elected leaders of the Tamil community in the 1980s [1], massacred other rival groups, suppressed dissent, and hijacked the control of Tamil politics, to launch a […]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
Chandre Dharmawardana, National Research Council of Canada According to a news report (Island, 2-11-20), Mr. Chinthaka Rajapaksa, who is said to be the moderator of an organization known as the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR)” claims a high probability that the fertilizer currently released to the market were of low quality and high […]
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Monday, October 26th, 2020
Chandre Dharmawardana. Please listen to an interview of Dr. Mendis ((https://youtu.be/Lh4D4qGE854) which touches on US policy and Sri Lanka, and hear between the words. See how a Sri Lankan young man straight out of a Pollonaruwa school system gets educated in the US via a scholarship to becomes a complete supporter of the American Manifest […]
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
Chandre Dharmawardana. Tamil Nationalists are making their myths, extending their history to ancient times and claiming that they were in Sri Lanka (and even in Africa, Babylon and Egypt) since the beginning of time, and that Tamil language is the source of the ancient Sumarian language. Wigneswaran, the ex-Chief Minster of the Northern province, has […]
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
Chandre Dharmawardana Tamil Nationalists are making their myths, extending their history to ancient times and claiming that they were in Sri Lanka (and even in Babylon and Egypt) since the beginning of time, and that Tamil language is the source of the ancient Sumarian language. Wigneswaran has captured the lime light recently, with such fairy […]
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Monday, August 31st, 2020
By Chandre Dharmawardana Sri Lanka recently had a nationwide blackout that cost millions and even compromised its security. A blackout may be compared to a sudden heart attack, leaving a debilitated individual. This was the fifth heart attack” suffered by the grid since the end of the Eelam wars, with blackouts in 2009, 2015, twice […]
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Thursday, August 27th, 2020
Chandre Dharmawardana “Wigneswaran …..Presumably hoping for a wider, protracted debate on that element. The Govt side very effectively scuttled his hopes by nixing any such debate during event.” This sort of thing has gone on since the 1930s. In fact, the first Sinhala-Tamil riot in 1939 August occurred when G. G. Ponnambalam alluded to the […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada. Sri Lanka, a nation troubled by decades of civil strife and a separatist war has just concluded a parliamentary election bringing back the war-winning government. Western observes have keenly focused on the North, with its Tamil population (5% of the Nations population) previously controlled by the separatist Tigers. Their MaVeer” (suicide fighters […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
Chandre Dharmawardana All the political parties have now issued their manifestos. A large part of the government’s foreign exchange budget goes for purchasing fossil fuels for generating electric power, and for feeding the fleet of vehicles, tractors, trains and other internal combustion engines used in Sri Lanka. These total some 8-10 million engines. All this […]
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
by Chandre Dharmawardana. Mr. Soyza writes (Lanka Web, 27-04-20) that “We hear many a good story about how Hela Vedakama can restore immunization in the human body from Hela Suwaya school of medicine. The time tested methods are available to our citizens in these times of fear to protect them from a virus for which […]
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Thursday, April 16th, 2020
By Chandre Dharmawardana [This is a shortened version of a more technical paper, 15-04-2020] Introduction. An outbreak of a new type of pneumonia like disease was first reported on 31st December 2019 from Wuhan City in the Hubei Province of China. It was identifies as caused by a ‘Novel Corona Virus’ on 7th January 2020, […]
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Monday, March 30th, 2020
By Chandre Dharmawardana. When the family of Czar Nicholas, children, and women included, were brutally killed by the Bolshevik revolutionaries, that was justified by a throng of intellectuals who were ready to defend anything done in the name of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. Clever dialectical arguments were presented as to why even the children had […]
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Sunday, March 15th, 2020
ආචාර්ය චන්ද්ර ධර්මවර්ධන විසිනි. දැනට ඇහැලියගොඩ ආපන ශාලවක් පවත්වාගෙන යන අතර අක්කර හතරක ගොවිතැන් සහ බෝග වගාවක් ද වවන අජිත් පිරයන්ත තරුණ මහතගේ ප්රයත්නය ගැන ලක්ෂණ ලිපියක් පසුගිය ඉරිදා දිවයින පත්රයෙහි පල විය. එම ලිපිය අනුව: තම පියාගේ ආභාෂය මත කුඩාකල සිටම කුඹුරට, කමතට ඇලූම් කළ අජිත් කැත්ත උදැල්ල කමතට අවනත කරගැනීමට වැය කළේ කෙටි […]
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Thursday, March 12th, 2020
By Chandre Dharmawardana The event, Hiru Govi Sangraamaya -Thun Helayei Ranketh Udhaanaya” may be visited at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own9TRzKUYw). A part of the title means Hiru farmer’s battle”. But what does Uddaana” mean? In Sanskrit, Uddaana implies the act of binding, fastening together”, while it also denotes the entry of the sun into a zodiacal sign. In […]
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
By Prof. Chandre Dharmawardana Mr. G. A. D Sirimal (GADS) has lobbied consistently for a continuation of the traditional and well-tested energy plans of earlier decades in his writings to the Island newspaper, and calling for the further expansion of coal-burning power plants, even though the Norochchollai power plant is limping between shut downs and […]
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Saturday, January 25th, 2020
By Prof. Chandre Dharmawardana Hon. Chamal Rajapaksa had stated on January 14th at Embilipitiya that According to the WHO, Sri Lanka is the country eating the most amount of toxins (ලෝක සෞඛ්ය සංවිධානයේ වාර්තාවල් අනුව ලෝකයේ වැඩිම වස විස බුක්තිවිදින රට තමයි ලංකාව)! Meanwhile, an Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry has called for a ban on […]
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Friday, January 24th, 2020
By Chandre Dharmawardana (This article is also to appeared in the Island Newspaper January 23, 2020) The so-called Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) of USA proposes to grant nearly half a billion dollars to Sri Lanka’s development. Sri Lanka has already received over 2.5 billion in Chinese aid, and this is a US initiative to counter […]
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Thursday, January 16th, 2020
ආචාර්ය චන්ද්ර ධර්මවර්ධන විසිනි, රජරට බොහෝ ගම් වල අලුත් මාදිලියක වකු ගඩු රෝගයක් වසංගතයක් මෙන් පැතිර ගොස් ඇති බව කවුරුත් දනී. සාමාන්ය වකුගඩු රෝගය අධික රුධිර පීඩනය සහ දියවැඩියාව සමග ඇතිවේ. නුමුත්, නව වකුගඩු රෝගය එවැනි කිසි රෝග ලකුණක් නොදක්වා, ලෙඩය අසාද්ය වූ විට පමණක් හෙලි වෙයි. මෙමෙ ලෙඩය 1992-2004 වකවානුවේදී මහනුවර වකුගඩු ව්ශේෂඥ දොස්තර […]
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Monday, December 30th, 2019
Prof. Chandre Dharmawardana A floating solar array system installed recently in France. According to an Islan d news report (http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=216282), His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says no to coal, and environment-friendly power projects which utilize renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power must be prioritized.The Cardinal is said to have made this remark […]
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Monday, December 2nd, 2019
By Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada Emeritus Professor Ariyasena de Silva of Moratuwa University, writing in The Island (1st Dec. 2019) suggests the following. “[making] blocks one metre long and 0.5 m across … outside plastered with a thin layer of cement mortar … Compressing the garbage into a steel casing can also be done with a […]
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