Sudath Samarasinghe This is a response to Dr. Carlo Fonseka’s rejoinder on 3rd March in The Island, to a letter by Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera earlier, the on the subject of singing the national anthem Tamil language. I believe matters such as national anthem are emotional issues where logic does not play much of a role […]

By, Professor Nishan Wijesinha ( Ethul Kotte, Kotte. ) It was my great grandfather Mudaliya Louis Corneille Wijesinha; who was an Imperial British Colonial Genius Scholar who translated the first original manuscripts of the Great Mahavamsa from Pali to English who inspired the need and wrote down the following diagram and highlighted the borders with […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela There is this story of a king who had a minister who used to say for everything, that there must be something good in it. Once the king happened to cut his finger off by mistake while cutting a fruit and the minister said there must be something good coming out […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  Democracy  is Good Governance  sans Electricity in whole of  in Sri Lanka   ??? !!!!!!!! Do you remember what Lenin said in 1917 and after .He wanted the country to  have  interrupted electricity in whole of Soviet Union . What is happening in Sri Lanka today is not a very good sign ………Opposition […]

By Garikai Chengu Countercurrents.org http://www.countercurrents.org/chengu020713.htm Contrary to the Westernized popular belief that Zimbabwe is synonymous with ‘Mugabe’s dictatorship’, it is one of Africa’s most democratic states. If Robert Mugabe is indeed a dictator, he has a peculiar way of showing it: the President liberated Zimbabwe from white minority rule and established a thriving parliamentary democracy, which […]

Garikai Chengu Courtesy  Herald.co.zw THIS week marks the 90th birthday of one of Africa’s greatest leaders: Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe. When Europeans came to Africa toward the turn of the 15th century, they found a prosperous civilisation of enormous wealth. Agriculture and cattle rearing, pottery, iron-work, fisheries, salt-mining, gold refining and ornament making, weaving, hunting, and […]

Dr Sarath Obeyskera I think all Sri Lankan should try to be self-sufficient and not to depend on any supplied and provided infrastructure and social benefits .This is the lesson we should learn by looking at what happened yesterday with power and water supply. What will happen if fuel supply to the whole country is […]

Lt Col (Retd.) A.S.Amarasekera 2nd March 2016. A country is governed by convention or by adhering to a Constitution. When our colonial masters namely the British granted independence to Ceylon they introduced a Constitution better known as the Soulbury Constitution to govern independent Ceylon. Though a Constitution was formulated and introduced by the British to […]

By Gandara John When reputed and responsible main stream media started flailing the Government for its shameless betrayal of the country on 01 Oct 15, not many realised that the modern day Pharisees had driven a hard bargain with Sri Lanka’s Judas; the ‘30 pieces of Silver’ did not change hands for nothing and the transaction, […]

By Afshain Afzal  Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) decided to include Hezbollah on the GCC’s list of terrorist organizations on 3 March 2016. This was followed by Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Arab League at Cairo, which on 11 March 2016, formally declared Hezbollah group a terrorist organization. In addition, during the meeting, Saudi Arabia also […]

By Dr. Chandana Jayalath Professionalism, like so many other leader traits, is one that we can easily learn by being aware of our actions and how they make impacts and influences others. What differentiates a true professional from the rest of the pack? Professionals help us learn how to improve for our customers, how to […]

 -තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි- පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙකු ලෙස පත්වීම් ලැබූ සරත් ෆොන්සේකා 2016 මාර්තු 10 වන දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සිය මංගල කතාව පැවැත්වීය. එහිදී කියැවුනු ප්‍රධාන කරුණු අතරට, ජාත්‍යන්තර විනිශ්චයකරුවන් සහිත මානව හිමිකම් කඩවීම් පිලිබඳ විමර්ශනයක් කිරීමට තමා සහය දෙන බවද, 2005 දී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරණය දිනා ගන්නට රු. මිලියන 200 ක් ප්‍රභාකරන්ට දුන් බවද, ඒ ගැන බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Chinese are casino –addicts . Port city to have an area to be given to Chinese for 99 year lease will be a famous haven for Chinese to build what they want ,I am quite sure they will be build mega entertainment centres at their  will as it is their land , […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Nobody would have been surprised that the Colombo Port City project, on hold for the past several months, is now on the verge of resuming. Trade and Strategic Development Minister Malik Samarawickrema had a strategy for trickling out the information that it was taking off in the short term. Before his recent […]

President  –  Kadanndiah Neelakan www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oy9p3E8svk බොදු බල සේනා, රාවණ බලය වැනි සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංවිධාන තහනම් නොකළොත් මෙරට යළිත් යුද්ධයක් ඇතිවිය හැකි බැවින් වහාම එම සංවිධාන තහනම් කළ යුතු බවට යාපනය කතෝලික පූජකවරුන්ගේ සංගමය” පසුගියදා කළ ප්‍රකාශය සමස්ථ ලංකා හින්දු සම්මේලනය හෙළා දැක තිබෙනවා. Colombotoday සමග අදහස් දක්වමින් හින්දු සම්මේලනයේ සභාපති එන් අරුන්කාන්තන් මහතා සදහන් කළේ […]

By Rajeewa Jayaweera Courtesy Sinhalanet According to recent news reports, the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka addressing the workshop on ‘non-tariff measures increasing awareness on Indian standards and regulations under Indo – Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement ISFTA’, has criticized the Joint Opposition for their opposition to the proposed ETCA. He has also stated former […]

Is Singapore so successful……………… Is Modi such a down-to-earth leader…………….. A no nonsense meritocracy with absence of flatulent pomposity! Greatness of Singapore – Instead of a huge wastage in a State Dinner, S’Pore PM hosts PM Modi in Komala Vilas, a popular eatery in S’pore – a couple of ulundu vadays and chutney served on […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I see these type of statements issued by both JVP and Opposition, Government also keep talking about loans taken by the state and inability to pay back 29 Billion Us Dollars by 2019 Who are we to believe? Can the state organize a Interparty conference like  the Sangha Conference proposed by the […]

By Senaka Weeraratna In calling for accountability for alleged war crimes on the part of Sri Lankan military personnel in the closing phase of operations against LTTE terrorism which were combined with humanitarian rescue of thousands of civilians trapped in LTTE controlled areas, India has opened a Pandora’ s Box. It is unlikely that any […]

රත්තනදෙණියේ මේධානන්ද හිමි යුතුකම සංවාද කවය සරත් ෆොන්සේකා පිලිබඳ මා තුල අද වෙනතෙක් කිසියම් ගෞරවයක් තිබුණි. යුධ හමුදාපතිව සිට තීරණාත්මක කාර්යභාරයක් කළ ඔහු කවර තත්වයක් යටතේ වුවද සිරගත කිරීම පවා මා අනුමත කලේ නැත. එය පැහැදිලිවම දේශපාලන පලිගැනීමක් බව මා තුළ පැවති විශ්වාසයයි. එහෙත් ඔහු අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කළ කතාව ඇසූ විට මේ ෆොන්සේකා ගැන ඇති වුයේ […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් එක්දහස් නවසිය අසූහත වර්ෂයේ ජූලි 29 දිනය ලංකාවට අඳුරු දිනයක් විය. ලංකාව සහ ඉන්දියාව අතර ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් කලේ එදිනය. ගිවිසුමේ වගන්ති ප්‍රකාරව ලංකාවේ හමුදා බැරැක්කවලට සීමා කෙරිණ. පොලිසියේ සිවිල් රාජකාරි පවා ඉන්දියානු සාම සාධක හමුදා අතට පත් විය.සුප්‍රකට වඩමාරච්ච මෙහෙයුමේදී පහසුවෙන් එල්.ටී.ටීඊ. සංවිධානය පරාජය කල හැකිව තිබියදී ඉන්දිය රජය මැදිහත් වීමෙන් ගුවනින් ආහාර […]

Senaka Weeraratna  In this remarkable series of photos captured with a high tech camera by Dr. Schwarz – Homburg accompanied by his wife (both from Germany) the serene scene within and the natural landscape that surrounded the Mitirigala Nissarana Vanaya in 1980 is vividly seen. Dr. Schwarz – Homburg and his wife visited Mitirigala Nissarana […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera By Ishara Gamage Ceylon Finance Today: Sri Lanka will move forward with Chinese funded projects without any hassle, Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama said yesterday (9th). Amidst fear generated after the speech by the Prime Minister to tighten our belts as they intent to increase VAT, impose capital gain […]

Dr Sarath Obeyseketa ETCA is generating fear psychosis among Sri Lankans, elite unions like GMOA  ,FUTA etc. (Only FARMERS UNION is not complaining of Indians coming to Sri Lanka to take over their 2G” sting uniformed trade ) .We will not be surprised that someone will raise the fear that farming trade may also be […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය කුමාර් ගුණරත්නම් මහතා හට ද්විත්ව පුරවැසි භාවය සදහා අයදුම් කිරීමට ඇති අවස්ථාව හිමිකර දීමට රජය වහා කටයුතු කළ යුතු බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. පෙරටුගාමී සමාජවාදී පක්ෂයේ නායකයෙකු වන කුමාර් ගුණරත්නම් මහතා මේ වන විට දින 100 කට වැඩි […]

Press Statement-Executive Director of the Sri Lanka Centre for Human Rights and Research (CHR – Sri Lanka) When thousands have been given dual citizenship, why is Kumar being denied dual citizenship?  AG’s role in ‘most talk about Political Prisoner’ Executive Director of the Sri Lanka Centre for Human Rights and Research, Keerthi Tennakoon issuing a […]

Press release National University Teachers Association of Sri Lanka We wish to register our vehement protest against the statements made by Mr. Y.K. Sinha, HE the Indian High Commissioner, recently at the Taj Samudra Hotel in the presence of members of the Sri Lankan business community and Indian officials. Reading Mr. Sinha’s remarks, we were left […]

By Senaka Weeraratna  As the symbolic head of the UN, the Secretary-General serves as both its top diplomat and its chief administrative officer. The UN Charter postulates, that he / she is responsible for performing various functions entrusted to him/her by UN bodies, and also for “bring[ing] to the attention of the Security Council any matter […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I beg reader’s apology for writing this rather blunt opinion. Sri Lanka is trying desperately lure our big brother –India to invest by almost chasing away the Silk Route pioneers China .We begged  UK,USA ,Austria ,Germany to help us out who just promise a meagre infusion of foreign funds to resurrect the  […]

By KAMALIKA PIERIS The British name for the island, ‘Ceylon’ came from the Dutch ‘Zeylan’ . ‘Zeylan’ came from the Portuguese ‘Ceilao’. Ceilao came from the Arabic ‘Zailan’ which was derived from the indigenous ‘Sinhala’. Therefore these were all versions of the indigenous name, Sinhala. The island continued to be called ‘Ceylon’ during the period […]