Good Catholic In one simple quote, Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. sums up the hypocrisy of many in the ‘pro-life’ movement: “I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born […]

Sunil Vijaya Sarath Fonseka states his security personnel hid the information from him about the terrorist attack on Easter Sunday. Mahinda Rajapakse states the same thing and the so is the incompetent Ranil Wickremasinghe.  What does this mean? Simply the security people have no confidence in any of them and would have thought ‘what use […]

දීපිකා දිල්රුක්ෂි ගුණසේන මම බෞද්ධයෙක්. හතර වරිගෙම බෞද්ධ අමු සිංහල බෞද්ධයෙක්!  ඒත් මගේ රටේ කතෝලික බැතිමතුන් ගැන පුදුම ආදරයක් මට දැනෙන්නේ.මට විතරක් නෙවි, මේ රටේ හැම කෙනෙකුටම ඒ විදියේ හැගීමක් අනිවාර්යයෙන්ම ඇතිවෙලා ඇති. මගේ රටේ කතෝලිකයන් කියන්නේ කොහොමටත් රටට කරදරයක් නොවී… නිසිතැන-සමතැන ගන්න වද වෙන්නේ නැතිව… මේ රටේ මහා සංස්කෘතියට අභියෝග කරනු වෙනුවට යස අපුරුවට […]

UNITED AUSTRALIANS OF SRI LANKAN ORGANISATIONS VICTORIA 3175, AUSTRALIA, The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR) organisations based in Victoria, New South Wales Queensland and Western Australia (WASPUR) as well as the Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) Australia extend their profound sympathies to the families who lost their loved ones […]

Palitha Senanayake ‘Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity’- Martin Luther King Mangala Samaraweera continues to better his record as the most treacherous person ever to assume a political office since independence in Sri Lanka.  Holding a press conference on Friday the 27th April on the Easter attack, he […]

Rajendra Alwis (This article is to mark the Sri Lankan Sinhalese Heritage Day celebrated in the Canadian Parliament on 2019.04.27)  Sri Lanka is a tropical island with a landmass of 65,610 km2 (25,332 sq. miles) separated from the subcontinent of India, situated in the Indian ocean, latitude between 6 and 10 North  and longitude 80 and 81 East. The total population of […]

Priyantha Hettige False propaganda (lies) – Fake news is a good way to destroy your competitors or even your enemies. It is unbelievably effective -and its use is as old as the hills. ·        Speaking the truth is the mark of a good person, a reliable person; civilization is built on such people, not on […]

Sunil Vijaya Wisdom will prevail if people stop being expert analysts of the current situation and be proactive and guide this Pathetic government on the right path.  As Buddha observed, extinguish the fire first and then find the root cause of the problem.  The fire is still on and it has to be quelled. The […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington NZ The peace that great men reached and kept Were not attained in sudden flight They, while their companions slept Were toiling upwards in the night. When lesser people came to be in charge of protecting this right, Not realising the need for security and intelligence so tight, Began gradually […]

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Sunil Vijaya When will Sri Lankan learn? It is laughable to note that ‘experts’ emerge after any conflict.  So is the case with the last Sunday’s Diabolical bombing.  In fact, this would have been the most catastrophic incident in Sri Lanka’s recent history where both locals and foreigners perished. As expats have noted our country […]

Sunil Vijaya Dear Editor,    We are no experts on security however common sense would suggest the following.  Declare a 24-hour curfew and round up all Wahaabis (Saudi influenced radical islamists). both men and women and politicians and incarcerate them indefinitely, under emergency laws.  If Human Right lobby such as AI cry foul, request them to […]

International Network for Sri Lankan Democracy (INSD), Stuttgart  We at International Network for Sri Lankan Democracy (INSD) condemn the terrorist attacks carried out targeting churches and hotels in Sri Lanka claiming lives of over 300 innocent civilians including foreigners, and injuring nearly 500.   We commend the people of Sri Lanka for the patient manner in which they reacted at a time of shock and immense […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col),PGDC(Col) පසුගිය සතියේ දක්නට ලැබුණ ආගම් නීතිය සහ දේශපාලනය හා බැදී උණුසුම සහ ඒවා හාස්කමකින් මෙන් සමනය වන ආකාරය අතීතයේ දක්නට නො වීය. එය යහපත් ප්‍රවණතාවයකි. 1815 උඩරට ගිවිසුමෙන් පසු 1818 ඇති වූ කැරැල්ලත්, 1962කුමන්ත්‍රණය, 1972 , 1988-1989 ආයුධ සන්නද්ධ අරගලයත්, වසර 30ක් පුරා උතුරු නැගෙනහිර මුල් කරගෙන පැවති සන්නද්ධ ගැටුමත් ලංකාවේ බහුතර සිංහල […]

Wimal Senanayake  Whatever truth that may come into light with the ongoing investigations, one thing for sure is this government is utterly disjointed powerless and headless. Heart is crying for the loss of lives and limbs and as the opposition has rightly pointed out, it is due to the presence of this inept and incompetent bunch […]

By Senaka Weeraratna  Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public Lecture  Did Japan contribute to Sri Lanka and India gaining independence from British colonial rule?”   by Senaka Weeraratna   On Monday 29th April 2019 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL ARE WELCOME Abstract The time has come […]

MAHINDA KARUNARATNE  It is a Muslim Jihad attack on other communities and a threat, which the damn govt. is impotent to accept, yet they are talking damn reconciliation.  What was notable yesterday 21st April is that Muslims were new it very well, they kept their shops and businesses closed but with no any indication of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mail Laurence Fox visited the Barberyn retreat in Beruwala, on Sri Lanka’s west coast   The Victoria TV star met with an Ayurvedic doctor as part of his ‘no-frills detox’ He was surprised how tasty the food was – he sneakily had the odd beer or two The month began with gin, and it […]

by John Pilger Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen manhandled a sick journalist, his eyes wincing against his first natural light in  almost seven years. […]

by ROB URIE Courtesy CounterPunch Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The American war against Iraq was among the more idiotic and gratuitous slaughters in human history. It was premised on lies, prosecuted by criminals and fools, outsourced to professional murderers and it isn’t over. In addition to those murdered directly and indirectly in the war, several […]

ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය සේවක අයිතීන් කොල්ලකන 2019/3 චක‍්‍රලේඛණය හකුලා ගන්නා මෙන් බල කරන අපේ‍්‍රල් 16 දින සමෘද්ධි බැංකු මගීන් අළුත් අවුරුදු ගණුදෙනු කිරීමේ චාරිත‍්‍රයෙන් ඉවත් වීමේ  වෘත්තීය ක‍්‍රියා මාර්ගයට අපගේ සහය. දිවිනැගුම පනත මගීන් සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සේවය කරන 25000 ආසන්න සේවකයින් හට සිදු කර ඇති බරපතල සේවක අසාධාරණයට විසදුම් ලබා දෙනවා […]

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka is experiencing its highest temperature levels in 140 years, Professor Chandana Jayaratne from the Department of Physics, Colombo University said today. Professor Jayaratne said this could be confirmed by examining climate data statistics. He said the temperature levels have gone up by 2 to 3 degrees from […]

“ඊමේල් ශ්‍රීලංකා” group පිංවත් ඔබ උදෑසන, එසේත් නැතිනම් රාත්‍රියට, කායික පිරිසිදුභාවය ඇතිකරගෙන, තෙරුවන් සරණ පිහිටලා, උතුම් පංචසීලය සමාදන්වන අවස්‌ථාවේදි, පිංවත් ඔබ ජීවිතයට එකතුකොට ගන්නේ,සද්ධාවත් දානයත් ශීලයත් කියන අර්ථයන් තුන පමණක්‌මයි. මේ තත්ත්වය හරිම අවාසනාවක්‌. අතීතයේ වැඩසිටි රහතන්වහන්සේලා පහන් දැල්ලක්‌, පිරිසිදු රෙදිකඩක්‌, පරවීයන ලස්‌සන මලක්‌, බිඳී ගිය සිල්පදයක්‌ කමටහන් කොටගෙන ආර්ය ශ්‍රද්ධාවත්, ආර්ය ශීලයත්, ආර්ය සමාධියත්, […]

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ශී‍්‍ර ලාංකීය සංස්කෘතිය හා බැදී පවතින සිංහල හා දෙමළ අලුත් අවුරුද්ද අතීතයේ සිට උත්සවාකාරයෙන් සැමරීමට අපි පුරුදුව සිටිමු. නමුත් වර්තමාන පාලනයේ අදක්‍ෂ අකාර්‍යක්ෂම කළමණාකරණය හේතුවෙන් රටතුළ සිදුව ඇති ආර්ථික කඩා වැටීම හමුවේ වෙනදා දකින අවුරුදු උත්සවශී‍්‍රය, මෙවර දක්නට නැත. රුපියලේ අගය ඉහළ යාම, ආයෝජකයින් රට හැරයාම ආදී හේතු නිසා මේ වන […]

FB මේ පත්තර වාර්තා වලින් දැක්වෙන්නේ නාගානන්ද කොඩිතුවක්කු රේගුවේ වැඩ කරන සමයේ අල්ලස් ගැනීමේ චෝදනාවට ලක්වී රිමාන්ඩ් බන්ධනාගාරගත වීමේ පුවතයි. වැදගත් වන්නේ මෙපමණයි. නෙලුම් මලක් මෙන් සුපිරිසිදු, සුචරිතවත් ගැලවුම්කරුවාණන්ගේ චරිතයට පණ පෙවීමට මෙවර ජනාධිපතිවරණයට ඉදිරිපත් වීමට නියමිත මෙවැන්නන් ඔබට මවා පෙන්වන සුරංගනා ලෝක සැබවින්ම ඔවුන්ගේ භාවිතය සමග ගැලපෙන්නේද යන්න ඔබ බුද්ධිමත්ව සිතා බැලිය යුතුය යන්නයි. […]

A NOTE from Retd Brigadier Hiran N. Halangode (of Gemunu Watch) Michael   [Alan Keenan’s recent press release] is a typical tale of the sort of stories peddled in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. The socio-economic conditions prevailing in the neighbouring districts of Uva and the North Central Provinces are very similar.  These INGOs spread […]

The proposal to establish provincial councils was, apart from JRJs debacle to stay in power with the help of Indians, primarily to solve the problem of people coming to Colombo to get work done which later translated to sharing POWER. Establishing a PC in Western province had no relevance on this basis. Further provinces close […]

Book Review: By Maximus Jayantha Anandappa (Sydney, Australia) The recipient of the prestigious Swarna Pusthaka Award for the best novel in 2018, Saman Wickramaarachchi’s Appachchi Avith” (titled Name of the Father” in English) has been commended as an unqualified success in the Sinhala social and print media which had prompted me to pen my comments […]

By Nayanjot Lahiri Courtesy quasrtz I first set my eyes on the gopuram (entrance towers of temples built in the southern Indian style) of the Vallipuram Vishnu temple on a warm Sunday morning in early March. Named after the nearby village, the temple complex looks like a small oasis among the surrounding sand dunes, which are […]

By Sisira Kumara/Lanka.com Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is a wondrous island endowed with a plethora of resources such as an bundant biodiversity, rich culture, great history, varied landscapes and many more. However, when we talk about the wildlife of the island, it is the jumbos that come […]