HELPLANKA PRESS RELEASE Helplanka, a UK Registered charity, has teamed up with Dimuthu Foundation of Pambala Kakkapalliya, Sri Lanka, kick starting their collaboration with a very special event to commemorate the 90th birthday of Dhanasena Siriwardene Goonetillake, who was born and lived in Kakkapalliya and who is the father of Sampath Goonetillake ( Sam)  the […]

වෛද්‍ය නීතිඥ පාලිත බණ්ඩාර සුබසිංහM.B.B.S (PERADENIYA), LL.B (O.U.S.L),වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරි, ජාතික රෝහල මහනුවර පසුගිය සතියේ දිනයකි. වේලාව රාත්‍රී 9.30 ට පමණ වන්නට ඇත. පොද වැස්සකි. මම මහනුවර දළදා මාළිගාව ඉදිරිපිට ඇති තෝසෙ කඩයක් ඉදිරිපිට මගේ ඇනවුම පිළියෙළ කරන තුරු වාහනය තුළට රැඳී සිටියෙමි.ඉදිරිපස වීදුරුවෙන් තෝසේ කඩය ඉදිරිපිට රැජණ හෝටලය අසලින් දිවෙන පදිකවේදිකාව පැහැදිලිව පෙනේ. පැවති සිහින් […]

Jubeda Chowdhury The Rohingya issue is currently an important international issue. More than 1.1 million Rohingyas have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017 due to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. About 50,000 newborn Rohingya children are added to it every year. Bangladesh Prime Minister raised the issue at the UNGA on September 25, […]

Jubeda Chowdhury from Dhaka, Bangladesh The Bay of Bengal, the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, is of great political, economic, and cultural importance to its coastal countries of Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia. With maritime trade, fishing, and tourism being the region’s most significant economic activities, it faces a variety of […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Dear Editor , It is disappointing and frustrating to see the respected Cardinal, continuing to raise doubts of a underlying conspiracy ” despite the  clear facts identified by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter Sunday Bombings, not finding any underlyingcnspiracy .   To raise these doubts  he uses a. […]

Jubeda Chowdhury from Dhaka, Bangladesh Although the RAB has paid a heavy price in its campaign against terrorists and drug smugglers, the US has unfairly imposed sanctions against the group. A major obstacle to Bangladesh’s progress has traditionally been a volatile law and order situation, which forced the government to form an elite force to […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ  Dear Editor , Please find below my response on listening to an interview given by the exUNP, now SJB , finance spokesperson on his hysterical advocation of joining the world” seemingly oblivious to all the efforts of the past two years of inviting foreign investment ,with each visiting heads to […]

Jubeda Chowdhury from Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh is a developing country. Its economy is booming day by day. The pattern of crime is changing. Technological advancement has also changed the tendency of crime. One of the major obstacles to Bangladesh’s progress is the volatile law and order situation. In such a situation when every member of […]

Rakesh Krishnan Simha @ByRakeshSimha courtesy Indiafacts Japan and India are the last two dharmic nations in the world. While Japan has avoided being sucked into Christianity’s digestive tract, Indic religions are losing members to the Abrahamic aggressor. What can be done to stop this? Playing Ostrich will only cause more harm.  The defining takeaway from the […]

Jubeda Chowdhury Bangladesh-India bilateral relations are a role model in the world in terms of relations among neighboring countries. They are deep and have evolved over time. India is seen as Bangladesh’s true friend.   On December 6, 1971, India granted diplomatic recognition to Bangladesh as an independent and sovereign country. The same day, Bhutan […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 28 (Colombo Times): When you are writing the book, write that Jaffna people love Sinhala people. We both want to live together like how we lived for centuries without getting burned by the flames of separatism” – Selvaratnam, resident of Jaffna The political rhetoric very often grabs headlines. The shrill voices […]

Jubeda Chowdhury  Bangladesh has improved its quality of life, economic strength and prosperity, education and research in every field. And that is why in the past Bangladesh was said to follow the developed countries to move forward, today the countries of Africa are being urged to look forward to that Bangladesh. No development in Bangladesh […]

by Tudor Wijeratne I would like to share my memories of a group of young boarders barely out of their teens, who later became household names in the fields of Arts, Music, Linguistics, Sinhala Literature, Journalism, and Medicine. They were boarders in my grandfather’s house in Mt. Lavinia, in the period 1940s – 1950s. Most […]

Jubeda Chowdhury  The couple and their family members will be deemed ineligible to travel to the United States. The United States has imposed sanctions on two Sri Lankan government officials for alleged human rights abuses. The couple and their family members will be deemed ineligible to travel to the United States. The two accused Sri […]

Jubeda Chowdhury  When Bangladesh is working to ensure the security for the region including Indian North Eastern part from terrorism, extremism, separatism etc., a recent inappropriate decision by US can hamper the situation. When Bangladesh’s law enforcement and security agencies are working to curb the extremism, terrorism, separatism to bring peace in the region, The […]

Sri Lankan Collective for Consensus In recent days, the government has sent mixed signals with regard to improving the human rights situation in the country.  On December 10, on which day International Human Rights Day is celebrated, a civil society organisation in Kandy, the Human Rights Organisation headed by Fr Nandana Manatunga was issued a […]

Courtesy The Island The 22nd of October 1902, was a busy day for Muhandiram Dionysius Sepala Panditha Dahanayake. The Dayaka Sabha of the Wijayananda Viharaya at Weliwatta, Galle, of which the Muhandiram was the Pesident, was holding a special pooja. Suddenly in the middle of the ceremonies, Muhandriam Dahanayaka got an urgent message from his […]

By A. Abdul Aziz  Stand ever ready to wipe away the tears of those who are in distress or hurting in any way” – Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad On 31 October 2021, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered a faith inspiring address to conclude […]

 Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Rt Hon Mr Gotabaya Rajapakse,  President of Sri Lanka. Dear Mr. President, I write to record my sincere  and unreserved thanks  and appreciation to you for your above  informative and monumentally inspirational speech that clearly demonstrates your Sincerity , Commitment &Focus & your determination to deliver on the promises you were […]

Jayantha Liyanage, There is no such thing as Sri Lankan nationalism, because there is no Sri Lankan nation and there was no Ceylonese nation before 1972 either. It was DR N.M Perera tried to create a Ceylonese nation but failed. Only a Sinhala nation exists in substance without an official recognition. There is no mention […]

By A. Abdul Aziz           In Sri Lanka, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at was established in 1915.It was during the life time of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, (Peace be on him) – Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama’at)  in Islam – Promised Messiah and Imam-al-Mahdi that, some of his books reached Ceylon as they reached Europe,  America […]

Suzette Aloyo  Dear Friends and Students:  I would like to inform you that one of the Dhamma talks given by Ven. Bhante Wimala is now available on youtube for you.  Click here to access the talk. Best Regards,  Suzette Aloyo, Office Manager Here are two of the many comments we received from those who heard […]

Palitha Mapatuna Watching recently a particular news channel, it seemed obvious that the reporting on the opening of schools was calculated to show the authorities in a bad light; the schools in which the attendance was low were focussed upon, whereas the others were almost entirely ignored. It seems that this type of reporting is […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Eurasia Review One of the temple murals by Solis Mendis; Sri Lankan gift to Kushinagar International Airport. (The Hindu) An inaugural flight between Colombo and India’s newest international airport Kushinagar landed on October 20 to mark the official opening of the airport by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The flight carried […]

By Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today If slaughter houses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian” – Linda McCartney-US Musician and Photographer PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, few months back submitted a proposal to ban cattle slaughter in Sri Lanka. The Parliamentary Group of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) approved the Prime Minister’s proposal. […]

Aegle Creations A visual poem using old imagery of Sri Lanka, then known as ‘Ceylon’. Original poem by Thivanka R. Perera about the gradual breakdown of traditional Sri Lankan society following numerous foreign invasions and infighting.

Dr. Chula Rajapakse. MNZM FRCP/FRACP Wellington,NZ Dear Editor,   I just viewed a  a video received via social media showing seemingly a challenge of a lady in Jaffna by the police and the sudden appearance of a lawyer, clearly positioned in advance to be handy,  confronting the police with an allegation of extra judicial action .The […]

As told to ZINARA RATHNAYAKE Courtesy Rest of World Nangahami Premawathi is a 61-year-old single mother of three school-age children. She has been driving a tuk-tuk for PickMe, a Sri Lankan ride-hailing app, and for Uber, for four years. She also delivers food and packages.  In 2019, the latest year for which data is available, only 17,368 Sri Lankan women […]

Rudra de Zoysa. “Bishop of the Diocese of Galle, Rev. Dr. Raymond Wickremasinghe told a virtual congregation that the conscience of those responsible for the Easter Sunday carnage would never be at peace and it would haunt them eternally.” Dear Dr. Wickremasinghe, You have confounded and mystified many clear-thinking persons. Those responsible are already enjoying […]

By Marcus Aurelius A moot point was made by the Sri Lanka Study Circle on 15 Sep 21, in its piece about Mahinda ‘Walking the Plank’, suggesting that America is attempting to force its way into Sri Lanka through the backdoor. The point made is alarming, considering that neither the Government nor the Opposition seems […]