Editorial  -The Island  January 16, 2016, 9:11 am Somebody has likened politicians to tortoises resting on fence posts. They cannot reach such heights without people’s help as is common knowledge. It is also people who have to bring them down. But, in this country, the creatures so elevated are deified! However, one may consider this […]

Gnanasara Thero – සිවුරට අත තියන්නේ බලාගනයි – 14/01/2016  

Sinale It is time to restore Sinhale,the historical name of our motherland. Some countires previously were under the colonial rule have already restored to their original names.Rhodesia into Zimbabwe and Burma now Myanmar.It seems our politicians are still unaware that 2500 years great civilization was built by Buddhist Sinhalese in Sinhale. 

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක රජය නවසිය හැටේ සහ හැටපහ අතර කාලය තුළ ජනතාවට පිරිමහින ප්‍රගතිශීලී වැඩ කොටස් රාශියක් ඉටුකළහ. ඒ අතරින් සිංහල රාජ්‍ය භාෂාව බවට පත්වීමට අවශ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්තිමය  ක්‍රියාමාර්ග දියත් කිරීම ප්‍රධාන වේ.  මැතිණියගේ නායකත්වයෙන්  විශාල වැඩ කොටසක් ඉටු කෙරුණද ඇතැම් අනවශ්‍ය තීන්දු තීරණ නිසා රජය අප්‍රසාදයට පත් විය. සීමාසහිත එක්සත් ප්‍රවෘත්ති පත්‍ර සමාගම රජයට […]

By Gandara John …All the king’s horses and all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.  D evil monster finagles Sri Lanka on Human Rights, terrorism, reconcilliation, reintegration, ‘transitional’ justice, corruption and more in its attempt to force the country to believe that Federalism is the model for democratisation, the middle path between two extremes and the […]

By Gandara John  …All the king’s horses and all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.  With Africa aflame, the Evil Empire homes in on Asia, leaving a tell tale trail of destruction in its wake, a grim warning to the Asian Continent to anticipate unmitigated disaster and misery. With their infrastructures destroyed, borders erased and populations […]

By Gandara John  …All the king’s horses and all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.  RW and CBK take a page or two from Soros, a billionaire who admittedly betrayed fellow Jews to the Nazis during WW2 and profited by it. Soros who likes playing a controlled opposition was accused by Hungarian PM Viktor Orban of […]

Sandya Salgado Dear Mr President, It is one year since I woke up to an ‘aha!’ moment in my life… A long awaited sense of freedom, not just freedom from terror, but also freedom of speech, freedom of living a life devoid of constant fear of being ‘watched and listened to’,  a violation of basic […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington , New Zealand Dear Editor, Relentlessly pursue with yet unsubstantiated allegations and litigation  the liberators of SL from three decades of terror,  release and pardon those alleged with the highest level of complicity with this terror,  remove the state obligation to protect Thervada Buddhism in Sri Lanka something which even the British […]

සභාපති – චින්තන පර්ෂදය-මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව 2016 01 13

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 16, 2016, 8:30 am The Joint Opposition comprising about 50 UPFA members and the SLFP group in the government are in the process of finalising an agreement on government efforts to frame a new Constitution. Kandy District MP Keheliya Rambukwelle yesterday told The Island that they had been closely […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Some former heads of local authorities which were administered by the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) are in the process of forming a new political party to contest the Local Government elections with the backing of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Former Gampaha Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Ranjith Gunawardane he and some others […]

By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Foreign Affairs Note Courtesy Asiantribune.com Washington, D.C. 14 January (Asiantribune.com): The British Foreign Office State Minister for Asia Hugo Swire arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka January 14 with 6.6 million Sterling Pounds (US$9.5 million or Rs. 1.36 billion), a Conflict Stability and Security Fund, as mentioned by Mr. Swire in an […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA To my knowledge, the Government has to date not commissioned an official assessment of the OHCHR report (also called the OISL report) or at any rate if it has, such report is not available to the public.[1]  And yet, one reads in the newspapers that the Government is about to start ‘the consultation […]

RANJITH SOYSA As reported in Sunday Island of 10th instant former High Commissioner for India. Gopalkrishna Gandhi has subscribed to the view that a large scale killings (by the defence forces) have taken place during the last period of the war including the killing of Prabahkaran’s son. He has also advised Sri Lanka that war […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island January 15, 2016, 9:13 am An economic crisis is looming. Foreign reserves are dwindling and the rupee is tumbling. The educated youth are demanding jobs. Educational institutions, especially universities, are starved of funds. State-run hospitals are experiencing drug shortages. The cost of living has reached the stratosphere with people struggling to make […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror The initiative for constitution making did not take passage through Parliament last Tuesday because the debate was adjourned till January 26.  The Government, comprising the United National Party (UNP) and a segment of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), intended to adopt it  on January 9 at a special parliamentary session […]

Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror There are moves to bring in new laws to define what is kepa (permissible) and what is akepa (prohibited) for the Buddhist clergy, i.e. the Bikkhus.  Whether or not this has been prompted by requests from the Buddhist Order as represented by the Maha Nayaka Theras of the three Nikayas, […]

උපුටාගැණීම අදදෙරණ ආණ්ඩුව කිසිදු ආගමකට නීති පැනවීමට නොයන බව අධිකරණ හා බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්‍ය විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. ‘ථෙරවාදී භික්ෂු කතිකාවත්’  පනත් කෙටුම්පත ගැන  සංඝ සමාජයෙන් ලැබී ඇති ප්‍රචාරවලට පිළිතුරු දීම සඳහා අද (14) කැබිනට් මාධ්‍ය හමුවට එක්වෙමින් මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ගේ ප්‍රශ්නවලට පිළිතුරු දෙමින් හෙතෙම මේ බව පැවසීය. ආණ්ඩුව කිසිවිටෙකත් සංඝයා වහන්සේ උදෙසා නීති පැනවීමට නොයන […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින භික්‍ෂූන් සඳහා විනය නීති පැනවීමේ අයිතියක්‌ ජනමාධ්‍ය ඇමැතිට ලැබුණේ කොහොමද! ගැටඹේ නාහිමියෝ ප්‍රශ්න කරති සිරිල් විමලසුරේන්ද්‍ර බුදුන්වහන්සේට මිස භික්‍ෂූ නීතියක්‌ පැනවීමේ අයිතිය භික්‍ෂුවකට නැතිව තිබියදී භික්‍ෂූන් සඳහා විනය නීති පැනවීමේ අයිතිය ජනමාධ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයාට ලැබුණේ කෙසේද යන්න විමතියට කරුණකැයි පේරාදෙණිය ගැටඹේ රාජෝපවනාරාමාධිපති අති පූජ්‍ය කැප්පෙටියාගොඩ සිරිවිමල නාහිමිපාණෝ පැවසූහ. භික්‍ෂු ක්‍රියාකාරකම් පාලනය සඳහා නීති පැනවීමේ […]

Nalin de silva-සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියට නිසි තැන

Editorial Courtesy The Island White vans and Lamborghinis ruined the image of the Rajapaksa government. Now, black Defenders and Prados have landed the present dispensation in trouble. Customs trade unionists tenaciously hold on to their demand for a probe into an alleged Prado racket which is said to have cost the cash-strapped state coffers a whopping […]

Compiled By Upasaka The government Sri Lanka yesterday presented a historic bill seeking the approval of Parliament to bring about new laws governing the life of every Theravada bhikkhu (monk) and bhikkhuni (nun) in Sri Lanka revising 2600 year old Vinaya pitaka, the first division of the Tripitaka. The Bill can even prohibit chanting Ratana Sutta (The Jewel Discourse) […]

Sri Lanka Jayabumi This new punitive legislation against the bikkus is a total foreign conspiracy against Buddhism and Sri Lankan way of life. Whole purpose of this legislation is to imprison skilful bhikkus by falsehood and stop them protecting buddashasana and nothing else. This legislation would be used by Muslim and Catholic politicians (no disrespect […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva Sri Lanka has been selected as one of the four pilot countries to participate in a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Project titled Intellectual Property, Tourism and Culture.” This Project will contribute to promoting awareness of the role of IP in Sri Lanka and supporting the tourism-related economic activities of […]

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL The UK Government is breaking national, EU and international law and policy by supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia in the context of its military intervention and bombing campaign in Yemen according to an analysis by eminent international law experts commissioned by Amnesty International UK and Saferworld, both members of theControl Arms coalition. The lawyers, Professor Philippe […]

By Bandula Jayasekara Courtesy The Island January 14, 2016, 12:00 pm As the Minister for Nothing to do in Sri Lanka’s jumbo Cabinet, even bigger than the one created by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, I am having the time of my life living in lies, blatant lies and deception. I only hope the bubble will never […]

by Harischandra Gnaratna Courtesy The Island Former Army Commander Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, leader of the Democratic Party yesterday said that there was no evidence to prove LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s son had been killed by the army. Field Marshal Fonseka was addressing the media at his party headquarters in Pelawatte. Asked to comment on former Indian […]

by Mahendran Thiruvarangan Courtesy The Island More than six years after the war’s end, a particular line of thinking has come to the forefront in Tamil nationalists’ defence of their politics around national self-determination. I would broadly describe this philosophy as liberal pluralism. Predicating the politics around state re-formation primarily, if not solely, on ethnicity or […]

Dr. Chandana Jayalath The Central Expressway, also known as the Colombo–Kandy Expressway is a proposed road project that will link Colombo, with Kandy. It will essentially duplicate the route of the A1 Road (Colombo-Kandy Road), thereby reducing the motor traffic to a greater extent. The expected benefits are enormous in long run so that this […]