Samantha Ranatunga Peaceful coexistence is the most important project of our era which we cannot do in isolation, but together. The huge challenge faced by the country today at the end of the staggering war lasting for 30 long years is to bring national amity among people belonging to different races, religions and communities and […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai,Dehiwela Have you noticed  how we consumers are all duped into believing that we are getting our money’s worth? The other day I bought a baby cream of a famous repetitive name, and when I opened the sealed tube and squeezed …. and squeezed and squeezed ….. well it took half the […]

Courtesy The Island April 23, 2016, 8:25 pm ECONOMYNEXT, The Constitutional Council’s selection of a new IGP through a secret ballot carried out in the absence of two of the three civil society representatives was slammed Saturday as a “historic blunder.” An activist group known as Decent Lanka 2015 which includes journalist Kusal Perera and […]

Senaka Weeraratna  Aims and Objectives The Animal Rights movement is destined to usher in the next great social revolution in the world. It is no longer a fringe movement. There is a gradual progression throughout history towards recognizing the rights of others. It started with the emancipation of slaves, women, children in that order. It […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, AHMADIYYA  MUSLIM  JAMA’AT – SRI LANKA On 17th January 2016, a Public Meeting was held, organized by All Ceylon Jammiyathul Ulema (ACJU) at Negombo Jumma Mosque at 4 p.m. The main speaker was Rizvi Mufthi, President, All Ceylon Jammiyathul Ulema. The news of this meeting was published in a Tamil Daily […]

Kanthar. P. Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBusAdm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng. MIEE (Ret), MIE (Aus.) CPEng, (Ret) Retired Director & Specialist Power Systems Engineer 23rd April 2016 Mr. Jeremy Corbyn MP Leader of the Labour Party House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AALondon Dear Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, MISCONCEPTION OF SELF-DETERMINATION, AND ITS NEGATIVE IMPACT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC-POLITICAL PROGRESSION FOR THE […]

By Paul Craig Roberts Courtesy Information Clearing House This is an English translation of an article that I wrote for the German magazine, Compact. I was encouraged by the high level of intelligent discourse that Compact brings to its readers. If only the US had more people capable of reaching beyond entertainment to comprehending the forces that […]

  Kanthar Balanathan, Australia Parochial Political Panorama As a third world country, we are superficial, and, lack in lateral thoughts and strategic vision. Most of the politicians are focused in selfish and self-centered matters only. Number of our politicians who are patriotic, and shoulder loyalty to the citizens of SriLanka, is questionable? We lost our […]

 ධර්ම සිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න කම්කරුවන් යය කියන්නේ  වැඩකරන අ යට නම්  ජීවත්වීම සඳහා  වැඩකරන අපි කවුරුත්  කම්කරුවෝවෙමු .ධන හිමියා මෙන්ම ධන හීනයාද වැඩ කරය්. එහෙත් මාක්ස් වාදීන්ට  අනුව  කම්කරුවන් ලෙ සසැ ලකෙන්නේ ධනපතියා යටතේ වැඩකරන අ යය් .මාක්ස් වාදී න්යයාචාර්යයෝ  තමන්ගේ රජයක් පිහිටුවාගැනීම සඳහා  මෙසේ විග්‍රහ කරන කම්කරුවන් යොදවා ගැනීමට උ  ත්සාහ කළහ .පතල් කම්කරුවන් වැනිඅ  […]

ජනපතිවරයා පසුගියදා පොළොන්නරුවේදී කළ ප්‍රකාශය අනුව ජනතාවට පීඩනයක් ගෙන දෙන බදු ප්‍රතිපත්ති හදන ආර්ථික විශේෂඥයන් ගෙදර යවා ලබන 2 වැනිදායින් පසු ජනතාව පිට පැටවෙන බදු බර අඩුකරන හැටි රටම බලා සිටින බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී බන්දුල ගුණවර්ධන මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව පැවසූවේ ඊයේ (20) බොරැල්ලේ පැවැති ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී ය. රජයේ සුරැකුම්පත් හා රාජ්‍ය ණය […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island April 20, 2016, 8:50 pm President Maithripala Sirisena has recently said something that media rights activists should take notice of. He is reported to have stressed, at a meeting with the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission top brass and media heads that some of the electronic media outfits breach the terms of their licences. […]

Retired Police Officer Courtesy The Island April 20, 2016, 8:44 pm The recent decision to appoint an officer of the Police Force to fill the vacancy created by Mr. N.K.Illangakoon when he retired on April 11th has drawn much flak from various quarters. The selection of Senior Deputy Inspector General, Mr. Pujitha Jayasundera, to be the […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island April 21, 2016, 8:52 pm The police super star contest, as it were, is thankfully over. It was preceded by weeks of intense lobbying and campaigning. Pujith Jayasundara has emerged the winner. Beaming from ear to ear he received his letter of appointment from President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday. It was no […]

Courtesy Tamil Guardian 23 March 2016 India’s High Commissioner Y K Sinha told reporters that a proposed economic agreement between India and Sri Lanka was proposed by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, as Sinhala opposition to the move continues. Mr Sinha told reporters that the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) proposal was put forward […]

Pathfinder Foundation: Centre for Indo – Lanka Initiatives In the recent past several articles have been published in the local press with regard to the objections by Bangladesh to Sri Lanka’s claim of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from its coast baseline made to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the […]

If we cant handle the errant Indian fishermen stealing our fish, poaching on our waters, ruining our marine bed…. do you seriously think our policy makers can handle a country with 1.3billion people? This is an agreement that will affect all Sri Lankans – Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burghers…UNP, SLFP, JVP, JHU,TNA, SLMC etc etc…… It […]

Chandani Kirinde reports Courtesy Sunday Times PORTUGUESE ENCOUNTER 500 years after the arrival of the Portuguese, a group of Sri Lankans has come together to make right what went wrong during those years of colonial occupation.  http://www.sundaytimes.lk/051204/plus/1.html It is the high point in more than two and half years of tedious and painstaking work for a […]

හිරුණිකාගේ සිගිති ආතල් ගැන මධුමාධව කියයි

Gamini Jayasinghe  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Gautama Buddha visited Lanka for the second occasion five years after the Enlightenment and four years and three months after His first visit to Lanka to settle a dispute between Yakkhas and Nagas. The Buddha’s second visit to Lanka on a Bak Full Moon Poya Day was to quell […]

K.K.S.Perera  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Today is Bak full moon; It marks Buddha’s second visit to the island for settling a dispute between two Naga kings  -Chulodara and Mahodara. People of past generations believed in gazing the new moon, which appears 14 days before this day as a good omen. ‘Nava bag lasand dut – […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena’s brother, who is the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), had awarded the insurance deal of Mobitel to a company owned by someone close to him causing Rs. 3 billion loss to the Government, the Voice Against Corruption (VAC) charged today. VAC Convener and JVP Provincial Councillor […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න මේ   ධනපාල මහතාගේ ලිපිය ගැ ණය ——–                       බුදු හිමි යෝ බරණැස  මුල් දෙසුමට තෝරා ගත්තේ  එය මංසන්දියක් නිසා නොවේ මුල්ම දෙ  සුම සඳහා හොන්දයය් සිතු ආලාරකාලාම ආදීන් මියගොස් ඇතිබව තේරුණා පසුව ඊළඟට යමක් තේරුම් ගතහැකි පස්වග මහනුන් ට   තම ධර්මය කියා දීම සුදුසුයය් සිතුනිසා  එතුමා ඒ ය සිටි තැනට ගියේය .තේරුම් ගතහැකිඅ  ය […]

In 2011, Danios wrote: Courtesy WashingtonsBlog  Below, I have reproduced a year-by-year timeline of America’s wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence.  In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage […]

by Senaka Weeraratna Attorney – at – Law British injustice in the enactment of waste land laws Kandyan peasants were made landless. They were reduced to a landless state by the take over of their lands for the plantation industry (initially coffee, then tea) by the British colonial government under a series of waste land laws commencing […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් වර්ෂයකට ලක්ෂ හතරක් පමණ පිරිසක් දඹදිව වන්දනාවේ යනෙන බවට සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛන සාක්ෂි සපයයි. ඉන්දීය රජය මේ නිසා උපයන විදේශ විනිමය ප්‍රමාණය අති විශාලය. මේ නිසාම බරණැස බුද්ධගයාව වැනි ප්‍රදේශ වලද ගුවන්තොටුපළවල් පිහිටුවා තිබේ.   වර්තමාන ඉන්දියාවේ රාජ්‍ය ලාංඡනය වන්නේ අශෝක ධර්ම චක්‍රයයි. එහෙත් එයින් ප්‍රකාශ වන්නේ ඉන්දීය ප්‍රතිපත්තිය බෞද්ධ වීම නොවේ. මායාවතී මහ ඇමතිනිය […]

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia Media Release Monday, 18 April 2016 The architects of bail-in” at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Bank of England and APRA have been exposed as liars by outspoken Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari, an advocate of breaking up too-big-to-fail (TBTF) banks. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and his cronies […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති෴ මෙම ලිපි මාලාවේ අටවැනි ලිපියෙන් – ඒ කියන්නේ ෆෝ-ඉන්-වන් සිංහලයෝ …” කියා නම් කළ ලිපියෙන්, සිංහල අපේ සංස්කෘතික දේහය සැකැසී ඇති ආකාරය ගැන කරුණු කිව්වා. ඒ කී ආකාරයට අපේ සංස්කෘතික දේහය සැකැසිලා තියෙන්නේ අප විසින් ම ගොඩනගාගත් දෙයින්, චෝල සහ බටහිර ආක්‍රමණ හරහා ලබාගත් දෙයින් සහ මෑත කාලයක සිට ඉන්දියාව කියන රට” ඔස්සේ […]

බෝධි ධනපාල, කිබෙක්, කැනඩාව බුදු රදුන් තමාගේ ධර්මය ගුරු කුලය රකිමින් රහසක් මෙන් තියා ගැනීමේ බමුනු වත් ගරු කලේ නැත. තම දර්ශණය මුලු ලොවටම දීමට සුදුසු අය සහ සුදුසු ස්ථාන විමසිය   බුදුරදුන් පලමු ධර්ම දේශනාව පැවත්වූයේ බරනැස් නුවරය. උන් වහන්සේ එම නගරය තෝරා ගත්තේ එය ලෝක ප්‍රසිද්ධ මාර්ග කිහිපයකම මං සන්ධ්ස්ථානය වූ හෙයින් ය. ත්‍රවිස්ට්ථාප […]

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke So economic reality dawned and the UNP leadership had to eat humble fortune cookie. China is back in the game in a major way, which is a good thing because it partially and temporarily stabilizes the economic crisis while re-balancing the island’s recently lopsided external relations. Ironically, the restored Chinese footprint […]

By Azhar Razak and Ruwan Laknath Jayakody Courtesy The Nation Although an interactive map, published by the Irish Times last week, titled as ‘secret companies around the world’ has indicated there are three Sri Lankan companies, three clients and 22 shareholders listed in the ‘Panama Papers’, the Sri Lankan Government has so far ‘not made any […]