Mohammad Abdullah In the religion of Islam, the 12th and final month of the Islamic (lunar) year is Dhul Hijjah, which is an incredibly holy and sacred time. It is the month in which two significant events are observed: Qurbani and Eid al-Adha (sometimes called ‘big Eid’ or ‘greater Eid’). The two events are closely […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Embracing with love – Priyangika with her biological mother Priyangika Samanthie was another ‘brown child from abroad’ when she landed in Norway, seven weeks after she was born. Even though many Sri Lankans thought that she grew up white for a better opportunity, she was searching for her roots since her childhood. […]

SRI LANKA ASSOCIATION BERLIN e.V Berlin Carnival of Cultures is a mega event held every spring in Berlin attracting over 1 Million live spectators and several Millions on TV. Country wise, cultural organisations display their cultural heritage with traditional music and dance following a parade of decorated floats highlighting their cultural themes and mottos.  Representing […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. Chairman, Press & Media Desk – AMJSL. The Muslims who should have been united and be in harmony, are divided in countless sects and divisions. It is not only in religious field but in politics too. When such are the conditions, the aggregate will be below zero. It is incumbent that […]

Prof. Chandana Jayalath University of Vocational Technology It is with profound grief that the University of Vocational Technology announces the passing away of Vidyajothi Emeritus Professor Dayantha Wijesekera, the first Chancellor of the university. The Vidya Jyothi is considered to be the highest national honor for science in Sri Lanka for outstanding contribution to the […]

John Rozario Karnataka, India Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has said Bangladesh has moved far beyond Pakistan and there is a lesson that needs to be learned from the country. When a nation decides on freedom and its rights … when justice settles in people’s hearts … then whatever you do, even military operations, […]

රුහුණු වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේ පීඨාධිපති මහාචාර්ය වසන්ත දේවසිරි මහතාගේ විග්‍රහයක්) Courtesy Lanka Lead News එක්තරා ස්ත්‍රියක විසින් සිදුහත් කුමරුවන් සුද්ධෝදනගේ කොලු පැටියා උපන් හැටියේ කවි කියමින් ඇවිද්ද බව පවසමින් මතු කිරීමට උතසාහ ගත් ග්‍රාම්‍ය උපහාසය ජාති ආගම් භේදයකින් තොරව සියලුම ශිෂ්ට සම්පන්න ජනතාවගේ පිළිකුළට භාජනය වීම පුදුමයට කරුණක් නොවේ. මා වඩාත් මවිතයට හා සෝකයට පත් වූයේ […]

Mahinda Gunasekera Agincourt, Ontario Honourable Political Party Leaders, Please see the article by the Indian Journalist, N. Sathiya Moorthy published in the Colombo Telegraph where he writes about the final stages of the nilitary action taken by the Sri Lankan authorities to eliminate the internationally designated (including Canada) terrorist group known as the Liberation Tiger […]

ලෙසන්ත චතුරංග (කුලරූ ආදි ශිෂ්‍ය) පාසැල් පරිශ්‍රයක් තුල ඉදිවූ දිවයිනේ විශාලතම හිටිපිළිම වහන්සේ වන අවුකන ප්‍රතිමා අනුරූ පිළිම මහන්සේගේ නේත්‍රා ප්‍රතිෂ්ඨාපන මංගල්ලය හා මහජන ප්‍රදර්ශනයට නිරාවරණය කිරීම. අටමහා කුසල් වලින් එක් කුසලයක් සම්පූර්ණ කරමින් අම්බලන්ගොඩ කුලරත්න විද්‍යාලයේ විදුහල්පති ජගත් සේනාරත්න මහතා ප්‍රධාන ගුරුභවතුන්, ආදි හා වර්තමාන ශිෂ්‍ය ප්‍රජාවගේ මැදිහත්වීමෙන් පාසැල් පරිශ්‍රය තුල ගොඩනැංවූ අවුකන පිළිම […]

Courtesy The Island It is not possible to separate public morality from private morality. Public morality is largely the collective expression of the morality the individuals practice privately. Public morality merely reflects back to us ourselves.” Speaking in Sinhala, so said Neville Jayaweera while addressing the Annual General Meeting of Avadhi Lanka at the Center […]

Asoka Bandarage Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives Volume 30 in the series De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111203454 About this book This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis […]

By A. Abdul Aziz – Chairman, Press & Media Desk, AMJSL. Ahmadiyya Khalifa Urges Good-Faith Negotiations In Peace Plan For Ukraine As He Inaugurates New Complex Of Britain’s Biggest Mosque Rebuilt After Fire In 2015 On 4 March 2023, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor […]

හර්ෂ කුමාර් සුරියආරච්චි වෙසක් පෝ දිනට ගැලපෙන මාතෘකාවක් වුවත් මෙම ලිපියෙන් සාකච්ඡා කරන්නේ වෙනත් කරුණක්. ඒ ,මෙම ලිපියට ප්‍රස්තුත වූ ආචාර්ය නලින්ද සිල්වා මහතා කාලය වෙබ් අඩවියේ  2023 මැයි 5 වන දින “මගේ බුදු හාමුදුරුවෝ ” මැයින් ලියා ඇති ලිපිය කියවීමේදී ඇති වූ අදහස් කැටි කිරීමක්. එතුමා එම ලිපියේ එක තැනක මෙසේ සදහන් කරනවා. “”අපට […]

BY ZINARA RATHNAYAKe  Courtesy https://www.atlasobscura.com/ The kankariya dance all started with a legendary demon queen named Kuweni How This Demon Dance Banishes Illnesses in Sri Lanka’s Remote Jungles

Dr Channa Ratnatunga I pen this article for those who seek the possible basis of Anatta from a scientific point of view. I’m leaving out ‘of the equation’, the ‘Soul theory’ of an unchanging entity of theistic religions, as it is not pertinent in the ‘dhamma of the Buddha’, which refutes it. Anatta is at […]

  Ven. Bhikkhu Mihita, PhD (writing from Canada)  The issue of the ordination of Mahapajapati Gotami, step-mother nursing mom of Prince Siddhartha, later Buddha, continues to be controversial. The general understanding, as encouraged in the Pali version,  is that she was denied  ordination, not only once but twice, and was finally given    at Encounter 5, […]

By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Courtesy The Island The recent pronouncement by President Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW), that The government has no business to be in business.” was music to the ears of those who believe in a free market economy. However, it also drew the ire of the loony left, the trade unions, a few die-hard academics […]

Samina Akhter Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh and Japan have successfully elevated the bilateral relations to a “Strategic Partnership” from the existing “Comprehensive Partnership”. “Prime minister Kishida and I have discussed today the entire gamut of our bilateral relations. We are happy that Bangladesh and Japan have successfully elevated the bilateral relations […]

by PRIYANTHA HETTIGE Pagans! The word summons up images in the mind of wild, uncouth tribesmen. But who exactly are Pagans?  And what do we really know about those whom the Christians designate as pagan’? All the old, Middle-Eastern religions such as Mithras, Attis, Adonis, Osiris, and Dionysus worshippers and the present day Hindus, Confucionists, […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. (Given below is an excerpt of the Eid-ul-Fitr Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 22 April 2023, at ‘Masjid Mubarak’, Islamabad, Tilford, U.K. gave a discourse on  Serve humanity to attain Islam’s true Eid:  His Holiness, after led congregation in […]

කල්පනා ඇම්බ්‍රෝස් ප්‍රභාත් විතානගේ විසින් රචිත ‘සෝබනකාරයා‘ කෙටි නවකතාව ගැන සංවාදයක් මෙමඅප්‍රියෙල් මස 20 වැනි බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා හවස 4 ට බොරැල්ල එන්. එම්. පෙරේරා ශාලාවේ දී පැවැත්⁣වේ. ප්‍රභාත් විතානගේ ලියූ සෝබනකාරයා නවකතාව පිළිබඳ සාහිත්‍ය සංවාදය අදහස් දැක්වීම ________ විමල් කැටිපෙආරච්චි  කල්පනා ඇම්බ්‍රෝස්  විවිමරී වැන්ඩර්පූටන් තාරක එරන්ද කල්දේරා සඳිනි ප්‍රාර්ථනා තෙන්නකෝන් දිල්ෂානි චතුරිකා දාබරේ රශ්මික මණ්ඩාවල සංවාදය මෙහෙයවීම: අනිල් හේරත්

Courtesy News18 The reason these stones float is that they have small pipe-like holes in them. These stones are kept at the Panchmukhi Hanuman temple near Rameswaram Letchumanan Theertham and at the Rajakaliamman temple. Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu is one of the holiest places for Hindus and is included in the pilgrimage known as Char […]

 රෝහිත මුණසිංහ – පැරිස් – ප්‍රංශය ශ්‍රිලංකාවේ  විශේෂිත සංසිද්ධියක් සිදුවී මේ දක්වා වසර 52 ක් ගතව ඇතත්, අප්‍රේල් 04 දිනයට අදාළව අදට ද බොහෝ මාධ්‍යවල  ඒ පිලිබඳ ලිපියක් හෝ කෙටි සටහනක්වත් පළවෙන අතර, කැරැල්ලේ අයිතිකරුවා වන ජවිපෙ විසින් සැමරුම් සිදු  කරනු ලබයි. එහෙත් මගේ මෙම ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම එවැනි සාම්ප්‍රදායික දෙයක් නොව, එම කැරැල්ල සහ ජවිපෙ දෙස නව මානයකින් බැලීමය. යම් සිද්ධියක්, නිර්මාණයක් හෝ පුද්ගල […]

Taslima Hyat Freelance Journalist and researcher Gun violence isn’t slowing down in America. So far this year, the US has seen at least 130 mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings in the US. The month of January this year had more mass shootings than in the previous five […]

Rohan Abeygunawardena (The Message” that came after Line of Destiny”) Ask Lester to come and see me” If not for above message Lester James Peries (Lester) received from K. Gunaratnam, the film industry of Sri Lanka would have probably lost the classic work of the Master Filmmaker of the country. Lester’s first Sinhala film Rekawa” […]

by A. Abdul Aziz, Chairman, Press Desk, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. Through knowledge bestowed upon him by God, the All-Knowing, the Holy Prophet, Muhammad, peace be upon him, foresaw the condition under which his Community (Ummah) had to pass during different ages and particularly in the Last Days. He is reported to have […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka’s first-ever free-of-charge, luxury, high-tech-equipped, conference hall and a grand banquet hall are to be declared open at the Devram Vehera temple in Pannipitiya on Monday (20). Temple’s founder Ven. Kolonnawe Siri Sumangala Thera said the conference hall and wedding hall were built for the people to conduct their social […]

Courtesy First Post The process of SRVAs started last year in the month of July when the RBI issued detailed guidelines on cross-border trade transactions in the Indian rupees (INR) Several nations express interest to facilitate international trade in Indian rupee. Representational Image/PTI. New Delhi: Indian rupee is edging closer to becoming an international currency with […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දමිළ භාෂාවයි සිංහලයි මට මගේ ඇස්දෙක වගේ ” தமிழ் மொழியும் சிங்கள மொழியும் எனக்கு இரு கன் போல