News A life example for some of our politicians who rush for Doctorates and ‘Paper’ qualifications ! *Humility and humbleness* Cricketer Rahul Dravid was awarded with a doctorate degree by the University of Bangalore, which Rahul Dravid gracefully returned. Not only did he give back the degree, but he also gave a wonderful speech, he […]

By ASOKA BANDARAGE Courtesy Asia Times The billionaire class led by the WEF has a plan for the post-pandemic world order, but the needs of ordinary people are very different . According to the latest International Labor Organization reports, as job losses escalate due to lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19, nearly half of the […]

Courtesy Hiru News A Sri Lankan legal expert points out that action should be taken in coordination with the Japanese Embassy regarding the alleged abduction of a Japanese minor by a Sri Lankan youth. Prof. Prathibha Mahanamahewa, Attorney-at-Law, stated that the issue should be resolved in a humane and amicable manner considering how the law […]

By Senior Lawyer Refer to the article ‘A Plan To Ensure Every Sri Lankan Plate is Full During COVID ‘  A paper submitted by Sri Lanka Study Circle in the Lanka published recently   Finally in 2020 the world has  realised that Globalisation has   completely failed.  It’s master,  USA is struggling unable to select a President , leading […]

By Senior Lawyer Refer to the article ‘A Plan To Ensure Every Sri Lankan Plate is Full During COVID ‘  A paper submitted by Sri Lanka Study Circle. Finally in 2020 the world has  realised that Globalisation has   completely failed.  It’s master,  USA is struggling unable to select a President , leading the world with the   spread […]

BY Dr Sripali Vaiamon As a Democrat from Sri lanka who was not so strongly involved even during  school days, wish to suggest,  in AMERICA as well as CANADA what we predominantly willing  to maintain is  UNITY,among all the neighbours,.I was a broadcaster and after my retirement I migrated to CANADA .As I know PM […]

ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී. හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට ආනන්ද බෝඩිමේ සිටි “ගෝඨා අයියා” ගැන ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී. හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට ලියන රසවත් ලිපිය අද නොවැ 19 ඉරිදා සිළුමිණ පුවත්පතේ 17 වෙනි පිටුවෙන් කියවන්න මා ගාලු මහින්දයෙන් අස් වී ආනන්දයට ආ දිනය මට කිසිවිටක අමතක නොවේ. ආනන්ද බෝඩිමට දෙමාපියන් සමඟ එදා පැමිණි සියලුම ළමයි පඩිපෙළ මතදී […]

වාගිස ප්‍රනාන්දු  විසිනි කෝවිඩ් ඇවිත් වනසන විට දිවි            පෙවෙතරටම සොයයි ඔබ කොහිදැයි වී                මවිතගහ කොල සුරකින්න යොදවා අද ඔබේ  සුරතකෙළෙසද ඉන්නේ නිහඩව,දැක         මේ විපත? ඔබ සිටි විටදි සුව පුටුවේ පෙර                යුගයමුළු රට සැනසුනා දැක ජීවිත රැකි           විදියජීවිත රකින එක නොව අද ඇති ලොකු ගැටයවැළලියයුතුද පුච්චනවද මැරුණට පසු    මිනිය සුදුස්සාට සුදුසුම තැන ඇති              ලොවකමිත්‍යාවට වැඩි අගයක් […]

Dr. Stanley Weeraratne.Former Professor, Ruhuna and Rajarata Universities. Editor, Lankaweb, I wish to refer to Mr. Bodhi Dhanapala’s piece titled Dr. Wimalawansa’s scathing attack on Sri Lanka’s superb management of Covid-19” posted on 2 Nov. 2020 in Lankaweb. Mr. Bodhi Dhanapala (D) in his note alleges that Dr. Wimalawansa (W) tried to launch some cheap […]

Ven. Walpola Piyananda Dear Sir/Madam,  Sri Lanka’s governments’ timely actions from when the COVID-19 virus first entered the country helped keep the situation under control for a long period of time. Recently the situation has quickly escalated and several Covid-19 positive clusters were found from the community. Therefore there is a quarantine curfew currently in […]

Rohan Abeygunawardena,Nugegoda. The 32 year old six footer who thrilled the youths as well as adults in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in early sixties is no more. His full name is Thomas Sean Connery died on 31 October2020, five days after his 90th birthday. Sean became an overnight sensation when the English movie ‘Dr. No’ […]

By A. Abdul Aziz. Supreme Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (May Allah strengthen his hands) made an appeal for special prayers during his Friday Sermon delivered on 6th November 2020, at Masjid Mubarak, Islamabad, Tilford, U.K.    His Holinesssaid that we pray for ourselves and […]

By A. Abdul Aziz. According to the Holy Qur’an those who reject God the Exalted always meet with disgrace and humiliation and this is also proof of their falsehood, for God always brings victory for His believers and they enjoy ascendancy over their enemies. If God did not exist, where does this assistance and succour […]

විජය උඳුපිටිය මහජන නියෝජිතයින්, රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් සහ රජය අතර පමණක් නොව සමාගමක අධ්‍යක්ෂ වරැන්, සේවකයින් සහ සමාගම් අතරත්, සංවිධානයක නිලධාරීන් සහ සංවිධානය අතරත් අභිලාශ ඝට්ටනයන් තිබිය හැක.  සංක්ෂිප්තව පවසන්නේ නම් මහජනයාට සේවා සපයන ආයතන සහ එකී ආයතන මෙහෙයවන නිලධාරීන් අතර තම පෞද්ගලික අභිලාෂයන් සහ ආයතනීය අභිලාෂයන් අතර ගැටුම් වලට අභිලාශ ඝට්ටනය යැයි  කිව හැක. දූෂණය […]

විජය උඳුපිටිය පාස්කු බොම්බයත් සමග ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදය පමණක් නොව ලිබරල් අන්තවාදය ගැනද සංවාද කලයුතුයැයි මම අදහස් කරමි.  කිසියම් ජන කොට්ඨාසයක සංස්කෘතිය හෝ ඇඳුම් ආයිත්තම් වලට ප්‍රමාණය ඉක්මවා ඉවසා සිටීමද ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී අන්තවාදය නොහොත් ලිබරල් අන්තවාදය යැයි කිව යුතුය.  ඒ ගැන කථා කරන්නාට “ජාති වාදියා” යැයි කීමට පෙර දෙවරක් සිතා බැලිය යුතුය. අපේ පාරවල්වල ප්‍රථම වරට හිකාබය […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lankan born Vanushi Walters of New Zealand’s Labour Party has won the race to be Upper Harbour MP in northwest Auckland, taking over from retiring National MP Paula Bennett, Stuff. CO. NZ reported today. She claimed a narrow victory over National candidate Jake Bezzant, a former tech company chief executive […]

මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශය: තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ සංසදය

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror From the 16 th. to the 18 th.,Century, Jesus could be easily adopted as one of the Hindu gods like Vishnu and Natha and looked upon as a benevolent being. Virgin Mary could be absorbed as Pattini, Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere points out. Under the Sinhala Kings, Kandy showed a remarkable degree of […]

Happy Soma Global Spiritual Art Center – Sunil Gamage- Director Covid -19 has inflicted enormous stress into individuals, families, groups, companies; the way what they have been doing in everyday life. Human factor enhances in everyday life when they engage and sustain positive behavior with qualities of focus, empathy, collaboration, inclusion, etc. However, people cannot […]

By Palitha Senanayake A read through the scholarly work of Dr. Asoka Bandarage, or more appropriately the study of that voluminous material, posit the question whether such extensive dialectics is necessary, at this stage, on the evolution of an economy of a small country that has suffered under colonialism for over three centuries.  The relevance […]

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බන්දුල චන්ද්‍රසේකර විසාකේස චන්ද්‍රෙස්කරම්ගේ  පාංශු” මෙරට සිදු වු දේශපාලන සංසිද්ධියක් විෂය කරගත්  සිනමා නිර්මාණයකි. 1988⁄89  දේශප්‍රේමී”  නැගිටීම, කුරිරු රාජ්‍ය මර්දනය හා පුද්ගල අතුරුදහන්වීම් සහ දේශපාලන ඝාතන එහි පසුබිම් කතාව වේ. අතුරුදහන් වූ කැරලිකරුවෙකුගේ මවකගේ (බබා නෝනා) දෘෂ්ඨියෙන් දිග හැරෙන කතා තේමාව සහ සිද්ධි සමූහය, එම කැරලිකාර පසුබිමට වඩා ඉන් වසර 6 ට පසු එළ‍ඹි පශ්චාත් […]

Courtesy NEXTSHARK A newlywed couple in Sri Lanka decided to do a kind gesture for the needy on their special day.  ishan Thilakshanaabout a month ago ගුරුදෙවිඳුන් ගෙන් අහලා තියෙන්නේ මංපුතේ,දන් දෙන්න පුළුවන් වේලාවේ දෙන්න පුළුවන් හොදම දේ වටිම දේ දන් දෙන්න කියලා.💝 අතේ තියන සතේ හරි වියදන් කරලා මනුස්සයෙක්ගේ කුසක් පුරවන්න හිතුනු හැම මොහොතේදීම […]

Vimukti Publishing Dr. Asoka Bandarage discusses the new edition of her book “Colonialism in Sri Lanka: The Political Economy of the Kandyan Highlands from 1833-1886.” This second expanded edition includes a significant new chapter, Neocolonialism in Sri Lanka, 2020, assessing the beleaguered state of Sri Lankan sovereignty in the midst of 2020, under the powerful […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Muthuswamy Master, who invested Sinhala film music with a new sound on par with Indian films, came to Sinhala films with Sri Lanka;’s first feature film Kadawanu Poronduwa (Broken Promise) as a member of Music director R.Naranaya Iyer’s orchestra and stayed on to make a mark. Colombo, August 30 (Facebook): Incomparable master composer […]

By ASOKA BANDARAGE Courtesy Asia Times On August 5, a new government was elected in Sri Lanka, bringing down the previous regime associated with the Central Bank bond scam, the Easter Sunday bomb attacks and controversial international agreements. The new government has come into office with a two-thirds majority in parliament, promising to bring prosperity, security and communal harmony to […]

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by A. Abdul Aziz Human nature is in itself evidence of the existence of God Almighty, for there are certain evils which human nature inherently abhors. For example, entering incestuous relationships with one’s mother, sister or daughter; coming into contact with urine, bodily excrements or other similar types of filth; falsehood and indeed all such […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM FRCP(UK)FRACP( Aust/NZ) Wellington New Zealand The about 10% Tamil minority in Sri Lanka were the privileged minority of one hundred and fifty years of the Divide and Rule” British Colonial administration, while the about 75% Sinhalese majority were the oppressed and disadvantaged majority, as they posed  the greatest threat to the […]

By A. Abdul Aziz. Those who do not believe in the Existence of God,  primarily contend that they would believe in God if they could see Him. It always surprises since people perceive different types of physical properties through different senses; for example, [some properties are perceived through] sight, others through touch, or smell, or […]