By M D P DISSANAYAKE Sri Lankans celebrated 18 May 2009, with the news that the Tamil Terrorist Velupillai Prabhakaran had been killed.  That was a day we have waited for many years.  The Westerners and the Tamils did not keep quiet, they used local stooges to defeat Prez Mahinda Rajapakse to take the revenge […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Whether you wish to be a vegetarian or not, is entirely upto the individual.  Muslims close their shops on Fridays during mid day, to attend Mosques.  Muslims open their shops on Poya Days to grab market share of non-muslim businesses. On the question of Fresh Pork, some Muslims were annoyed […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE GONI BILLO, MOSQUES, CHURCHES, KOVILS INUNDATED-CARGILLS FEAR TO SELL PORK CROW ISLAND BEACH PARK- MODERA WELLA A trip to Modera Wella make you wonder whether you are in the heart of Colombo, Sri Lanka or somewhere in India. The approach roads are despicable.  You find carts carrying king coconuts and […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE If you have travelled to Sri Lanka late 2013, you might have thought that after flushing out tamil terrorists, Prez Rajapakse and Dr Gotabaya Rajapakse converted a hell into a almost a heaven.  Not as glorious as Singapore, but admittedly moving towards the flying path with an aggressive plan. If […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE What has happened to Sri Lanka in many ways can be drawn as a parallel to what did happen in Indonesia.  Prez Soeharto developed the nation, cost of living was affordable, religious extremism well managed, retained East Timor in spite of Western push. What was lacking. Though he did lot […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE A President or Prime Minister need not be an academically qualified Economist. They need to be good listeners, listening to those who have achieved recognized credentials in key areas, including Economics. Some of them in the team may be elected MPs and Professionals without allegiance to Party politics. Starting from […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Beating India is great, that is our ultimate opponent.  They underestimated SL prior to  the match. The problem of fitness still persists. Angelow, Asela, Kusal must be back in action in the quarter final against Pakistan on Monday. SL has a remarkable record of coming from behind.  India has a […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Australia, Sri Lanka, NZ and West Indies have won all 3 preliminary matches in the first round, scoring maximum 6 points each. On the net run rate, SL has come first with 3.493, followed by Australia 3.433, NZ 2.138 and WI 0.764. The two “super-powers” in the Indian sub-continent provided […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE It is being reported that Sri Lankan Skipper Angelow Mathews is suffering from a calf injury.  Sports injuries are a common phenomenon, in international arena the players who are not 100 per cent fit had been sidelined for extended periods of time. Sri Lankan cricket rankings are currently rated poor, […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE NO TOILET PAPERS AT SRI LANKA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, COLOMBO, INSTEAD A BUCKET OF WATER FOR FOREIGNERS AS WELL. FOREIGN TOURISTS PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN TOILET PAPERS IF COMING TO SRI LANKA. In the history of Sri Lanka there was no instance  since Independence that an incoming government inherited an economy […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE There are reports reaching  Colombo that the current top man at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Rome is playing games with his countrymen.  For the past several years, Sinhala Classes have been conducted for the Sinhala children living in Italy.  A representative of the HELADIVA THAKSALAWA”  has gone to the […]

ඇම් ඩී පී දිසානායක අපේ අතිගරැ ජනාධිපතිතුමා සරල දිවියක් ගෙවන ආදර්ශමත් ප‍ර්තිමූර්තියක් යන විරැදාවලියෙන් වර්ණවත් කලේ, හරියටම එතුමා ජනාධිපතිවී සතියක් ඇතුලත ලංකාවට ගෙන්වන ලද අතිඋත්තම ෆැන්සිස් පාප්වහන්සේ විසිනි. “මම ජනාධිපතිවූ පසු සැහැල්ලු අපිස් ජීවිතයක් ගතකරන බවත්, අරලියගහ මංදිරයේ නොව මගේ සාමා‍න්‍ය  ගෙදර ඉන්නා බවත්, වියත් අවියත් හුදී ජනතාවගේ දැනගැනීම සඳහා මගේ හරකබාන වතුපිටි ඇත් අස් […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE When the Holy Pope  Francis visited Sri Lanka, he said the simple habits and unpretentious nature of President Maithripala Sirisena was similar to his life style. When the Holy Pope said ‘President Sirisena is just like me’ I said ‘no you are just like President Sirisena,” Archbishop said. Maithripala Sirisena […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Both Rangana and Upul were victims of circumstances of Sri Lankan cricket.   Rangana failed to secure  a permanent place in the team as the selectors opted to play one spinner.   Muralitharan dominated the spot for quite a long time whilst Rangana was rested on the bench.  Suddenly the selectors have […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Sri Lanka is in danger of not meeting a spot in the top 8 Test Teams, to be able to automatically qualify for the 2019 ODI World Cup.  Judging by the current standings and the upcoming matches between now and September  this year ( cut-off date )  the following Test  […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe is a wicked politician.  As far as I can remember, the first person who branded him as such was non other than Chandrika.  On 13 July 2002, during her  address to SLFP parlimentarians in Anuradhapura the President Chandrika said: “it was possible that an attempt would be […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE There are two wicked politicians still prevailing in Sri Lanka.  One is Badrakali Chandrika and the other The Wicked Ranil.   Their long term objective will be to eliminate all Sinhala National Leaders. If any danger takes place for the life of Mr Weerawangsa as a result of ongoing Fasting, the […]

ඇම්  ඩී පී  දිසානායක සිරිලක් දේශපාලන භූමිකාවේ සැරිසරන දුෂ්ඨයන් දෙදෙනෙක් වෙති. එකියක් බද‍්‍රකාලී චන්ද‍රිකාය  අනිකා මේආත්මයේදි දරුසැපක් නැති රනිල්‍  ය . සිංහල නායකයින් එක එකා නැතිකරදැමීම මුන්ගේ අරමුණය. කිසියම් හේතුවකින් උපවාසය නිසා වීරවංශ මහතා ගේ ජීවිතයට හානියක් සිදුවුවහොත් රනිල් චන්ද‍රිකාවන් කොක්භඬළා සතුටු වෙනු ඇත . ඔබ තුමා අවශ‍්‍ය අපටය. ඔබතුමා නිභඬ වීම සිංහලයාගේ මළගමේ ආරම්භයය. […]

BY  M D P DISSANAYAKE I was in the process of writing about Mr Sarath Weerasekera.  I thank Dr Sudath Gunasekera  for doing it.  I have previously written about SW in my article of ” POLITICAL STRATEGY OF JOINT OPPOSITION IN DISARRAY- MR WITH SLPP, GR WITH WIYATH MAGA”, SARATH WEERASEKERA IN ATHARA-MAGA”.Posted on November […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The virtually bankrupt government of Maithreepala, Ranil and Chandrika trio’s new project negotiations include the establishment of  a 5 Star Hotel  and Luxury Apartments  of famous Dusit Tani (famous for what?) in Balapitiya. Dusit Tani  Hotel Group is well known for providing Thai Full Body Massages for all ages of […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of Life is when men are afraid of the light.” – ― Plato– The smartest fish are still in the sea.” -― Matshona Dhliwayo You become a Prisoner if you are caught and found guilty of breaking […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE We welcome the decision of the JO for withdrawing from the participation of the drafting process of the new constitution in Sri Lanka.  In the first place, the JO should not have taken part at all from the inception as the Government is planning to stich a draft that is […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Sri Lankan Cricket has reached its low ebb and in the process virtually destroyed some of the young talents.  Angelow Mathews was never a visionary leader, he was fortunate to be the skipper with the right contacts, rather than right skills needed by a skipper.  With the departure of Mahela, […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE JAYALALITHA – GONE WITH THE WIND – “In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”    — Confucius, Chinese teacher and philosopher When she became the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa famously declared that […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE President Mahinda Rajapakse has established his name as a visionary leader. Whilst fighting war against Tamil Terrorists, he laid the ground work for the economic development. In 2009 The Sri Lanka Institute of Textile and Apparel was formed, empowering the Institute to train work force needed by the sector. The […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The opponents consisting the nationalists are sending confusing signals to the average voter.  Prof. G L Peiris is a dry politician, never contested in an election, but is heading the SRI LANKA PODUJANA PERAMUNA.  Dinesh Gunawardene is the Leader of the Joint Opposition, an extremely honest politician, just like his […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE My Dear Charles In many ways parallels can be drawn between SWRD and MR. As we see now, SWRD’s job was far more easier in 1956 than for MR now. SWRD changed the religion, which gave an instant vote winning qualification. MR remained as Buddhist as before. SWRD had great […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE During past 30 years or so, the US lead Alliances have channelled their resources to areas that did not create wealth, employment and investment. Though they had enough resources during that period, they concentrated on non-economic growth areas. Whilst pretending to be saviours of human rights, they conspired with the […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Rangana has retired from ODI   and T20. but willingly accepted the role of skipper for the Zimbabwe series, winning the series for the country 2-0 and adding further 19 wickets in just 2 test matches. It must be noted that his team had only two seniors, Upul Tharanga and […]

BY M D P DISSANAYAKE The shocking victory of Donald Trump brings peace of mind to Sri Lankan majority Sinhalese.  The introduction of new constitution with unitary status, introduction of foreign judges for War Tribunal, devolution of greater autonomy for Tamils in Sri Lanka, would have been far more easier with Hillary Clinton, who has […]