Senaka Weeraratna Sri Lanka gained Independence in February 1948 almost effortlessly (without blood letting) when compared to what other countries had to face. There was no mass based independence struggle or armed rebellion in Sri Lanka after 1848 akin to that in India, Burma, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Indonesia and Vietnam. Except for Anagarika Dharmapala, […]

Courtesy:  The Sunday Island The Otara Foundation has welcomed the approval of the Animal Welfare Bill by the Cabinet of Ministers as a step in the right direction and pledged to continue its advocacy in order to ensure the enactment of the Bill as law. The Foundation thanked the President, Prime Minister and the Minister […]

Daily Mirror EDITORIAL  Amid the growing incidence of cruelty to animals including the latest multi-million rupee rackets on the capture of a baby elephant, the cabinet has approved the  long-delayed Animal Welfare Bill and sent it to the Legal Draftsman’s Department to include the provisions proposed by animal welfare movements also. As for the existing […]

Editorial Courtesy The Sunday Times Last week, our INSIGHT team went to the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) that separates Sri Lanka from India to follow up on an earlier investigation into the continuing rape of the country’s sea resources — the fish and the environment — by illegal Indian fishing expeditions. This was hardly […]

Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan is Chair of the Conflict Resolution Department, Salisbury University, Maryland Courtesy: www.eurasiareview.com The traffic from Washington, D.C to Colombo has increased dramatically in 2015. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Sri Lanka in May. The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power was in the country in November. Ambassador Thomas […]

Mahadenamutta Courtesy The Nation These days Prime Minister RanilWickremesinghe is an angry man. He is particularly piqued at those who criticise the proposed Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India. He takes every opportunity to take a swipe at them, even calling them ‘traitors’. A trade union representing doctors and some media outlets have been […]

By Kasun Warakapiriya Courtesy The Sunday Times Government leaders, including President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, will hold a crisis meeting tomorrow to find an urgent solution to the fertilizer issue, Agriculture Minister Duminda Dissanayake said. He said his ministry arranged the meeting as farmers from several parts of the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera S W R D Bandaranayake rode on all above four horses and won the election and came to power despite the fact that his life was commuted prematurely by a member of Sangha . Today there may not be danger that Sangha will commit such heinous crime ,though Sinha- Le might plan […]

by Vinod Moonesinghe Courtesy The Island February 27, 2016, 8:37 pm Back in the day when President Premadasa by-passed obvious contenders for the post of Research Director of the People’s Bank and awarded the sinecure to TisaraneeGunasekera, many people believed that she was of scholarly substance. It is unfortunate indeed that she writes articles of the […]

LNW SPY  තාත්තා ඇතුලු පවුලේ අනිකුත් සමාජිකයන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනිම වලක්වා ගැනිමට කැමත්තක්  ඇත්නම් වහාම තමන් සමග එක්විමට කටයුතු කරන ලෙස බෙදුම්වාදී,ලැජ්ජාවක් නැති සිංගප්පූරුවේ ඇවිද ඇවිද ආතල් ගන්නා ජනපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට දුමින්ද දිසානායක අතේ පණිවිඩයක් යවා ඇති බව අනාවරණය වි තිබේ. අදාළ පණිවිඩයට අනුව ඉද හිට විසිකරන දෙයක් කා ජිවත් […]

Global Sri Lankan Forum  24th February 2016 His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, The President of Sri Lanka    Adverse Impact of the Proposed Economic and Technical Agreement (ETCA) with India – Our Request to the Government to Stop Approving this Agreement We, the representatives of Sri Lankans living overseas are of the view that the proposed […]

– තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි- මේවන විට පලාත් පාලන ආයතන පිලිබඳ මැතිවරණය දින නියමයක් නොමැතිව කල් යමින් පවතී. මේ සම්බන්ධව බලයේ සිටින පාර්ශවයත් , මහින්ද පාර්ශවයත් විවිධ අදහස් ප්‍රකාශ කරති. ඒ අතර නිල විපක්ෂයවූ ද්‍රවිඪ ජාතික සංධානය තමන්ගේම න්‍යාය පත්‍රයක් වෙනුවෙන් කටයුතු කරමින් සිටී. ඔවුන්ට මෙම මැතිවරණය තිබුනත් නැතත් එහි විශේෂයක් ඇති බවක් නොපෙනේ.  මහින්ද පාර්ශවය විසින් මැතිවරණය […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  සුද්දා විසින්  බද්දට ගත්  රට   සින්නක්කර කර ගැනීමේ අභිලාශය සුද්දාට තිබුනත්  තම සතුරන් විසින් තමන්ට කරන අරියාදු  නිසා ඇතිවූ බියෙන් සිංහලේ නම් බදු ඉඩම   තමන් වෙනුවෙන් බාර දීමට  සුදුසුම  ගෝල බාලයන්  ට බාරදී කරන කිඅන හැටිත් කියාදී ගියේය  මේ අනුව  ගෝලයෝ තම ඉඩමේ”පැටිකිරිය ” නොසලකා පරණ ”ලුහුඬු සටහන් ”අකාමකා දමා ”ඉංග්‍රීසින් කියූ පරිදි […]

V.Anandasangaree  Secretary General -TULF His Excellency Maithiripala  Srisena President of  Sri Lanka Colombo Your Excellency, Release of  Political Prisoners, and immediate release of those under fast I happened to visit the Anudhapura prison last evening and collected some very genuine information sufficient enough to release the two under fast, without any delay. The two of […]

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) will include their long standing demand for a separate province when submitting their proposals for constitutional reforms, SLMC Secretary General and former MP Hasan Ali told the Daily News. The Party stance has been to lobby for a separate province for Muslims from its inception. Out of […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera At my somewhat old age ,passing middles age of course ,I felt an irregular heart  beat and decided to check it up with a local cardiologist after paying about 2500 Rs Luckily we knew the doctor in a private hospital ,and without queuing up managed to sneak in amidst the protests of […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Response …  I placed an opinion in the Lankaweb about the apartheid attitude of Sri Lankan hotel owners in Sri Lanka sent to me by a Sri Lankan family residing in Canada . Incident quoted in the opinion was about Grand Hotel in Nuwara ELiya where they were not treated well by […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Clarification ……….. I opened the pandora’s box by being critical of Sri Lankan workers against Indian workers Lorenzo ,Alloy and others using various pseudonyms were quite critical of my statement Someone even mentioned that Singapore has automation in Shipbuilding  ! I wonder how you can build ships with robots ? I can […]

Wimal S Apropos the letter by Dr Sarath Obeysekera in The Island of Feb. 24 calling for Indians to fill our workforce is pretty dangerous and shortsighted. He did not have to look further than at the Upcountry tea estates where the country was flooded with cheap Indian labour by the British with similar objectives. […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera   ETCA is making news  today and many professional organizations including GMOA is worried about the influx of Indian Labour to take over jobs of our  cow boys Does anyone know that one of the biggest foreign exchange earner Colombo Dockyard is employing over 400 ship building workers to generate much needed foreign […]

 Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today issued a statement in response to the allegations leveled against him by the Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment and Welfare, Ranjan Ramanayake, regarding a luxury cubicle worth four million US Dollars to be fixed inside an aircraft. The following release was issued with the signature of Sheron Samaranayake, […]

lanka C news හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාගේ ආරක්‍ෂක නිලධාරියෙකු වන මේජර් නෙවිල් වන්නිආරච්චි මහතාගේ ඥාතියෙකුට අයත් ඉඩමක් ඊයේ දිනයේදී අධිකරණ නියෝගයක් මත බැකෝ යන්ත‍්‍ර යොදවා බිම හාරා පරීක්‍ෂා කරනු ලැබීය. හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් රත‍්‍රන්, මුදල් ආදිය සඟවා ඇති බවට ලද පැමිණිල්ලක් මත පොලීසිය විසින් ලබා ගත් අධිකරණ නියෝගයක් මත මෙය සිදු කරන ලදී. කෙසේ […]

lanka C news හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා සුඛෝපභෝගී ගුවන්යානයක් භාවිතා කලේ යයි නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමති රන්ජන් රාමනායක මහතා විසින් කල ප‍්‍රකාශයට හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා වෙනුවෙන් ෂෙරොන් සමරනායක මහතා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර ඇත. මෙහි දැක්වෙන්නේ එම සම්පූර්ණ නිවේදනයයි. මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාගේ සුඛෝපභෝගී ගුවන්යානා කුටිය හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා ශ්‍රී ලන්කන් එයාර්ලයින් සමාගමේ නව ගුවන්යානා සමඟ එතුමාගේ […]

Courtesy The Island February 25, 2016, 9:19 pm The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has spearheaded opposition to the proposed Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with India. This opposition was based on the information that the government had communicated to the GMOA about the proposed agreement. Politicians at all levels parliamentarians, political party leaders, […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  When I read above news item I was compelled to write this note. Singapore which was far behind our progress when they got the independence and yet they dropped South Asian Mentality” i.e spitting  beetle- saliva  along every wall of the  building ,dirty eating places ,dirty toilets ,speaking loudly, forming ghettos, spitting […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න බන්ඩාරනායක  කපටියෙකි ඉන්දීය ගැ ත්තෙකය් සමහරු කියති වැඩියෙන්ම සමහරුන්ට  බන්දා පෙනෙන්නට බැරි සිංහල රාජ්‍ය භාෂා කිරීමත් සිංහලෙන් උසස් අධ්ධ්යාපනය ලබා ගැනීමට ර ටේ වැඩි ජනතාවට මාර්ගය  පාදාදීමත් නිසාය. ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් ඉගැන්වූ කාලයේ සිංහලයන්ගෙන් 90% කටත් වැඩියෙන් පන්තිය තරමේදී පාසල් හැර ගියහ ටික දෙනෙක් ඉහලට ගියහ. උපාධිය දක්වා ගියේ අතේ ඇඟිලිවලින් ගණන් කල හැකි සුළු […]

By Barbara O’Brien Buddhism Expert http://buddhism.about.com/od/throughasiaandbeyond/fl/Christian-Buddhist-Tension-in-South-Korea.htm Buddhism has been practiced on the Korean peninsula for more than 16 centuries (see “Buddhism in Korea“). It survived long centuries of repression under a Confucian dynasty and also challenges to monastic rules during the Japanese occupation in the 20th century. But in recent decades it has faced its biggest […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa, son of the former president responded to the many allegations thrown against the Rajapaksa regime. QIt’s a very  bad time for you, isn’t it? It is the nature of politics. Politicians do not have power for ever; it comes intermittently.  When Mahinda Rajapaksa was in power there was […]

Yoshi karunarathna This a about emerging discrimination against our own people by our own people …. Today (19/2/2016) myself, my husband and his brother and wife, all Sri Lankans with latter two living in Canada, and all over 60 years of age and who have been civic-minded citizens holding professional and responsible jobs, went to […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ජනප්‍රිය  මුහුණු ඉදිරියට දමා දේශද්‍රෝහී වැඩවලට යොදවා සිංහල බෞද්ධ ශිෂ්ටාචාරය සුනු විසුනු කිරීමේ අපේක්ෂාවෙන් පෙලෙන එජාපයේ නායක රනිල් නම් අන්ග් ලි ගිකානුවා   දැන් ඇති දක්ෂ ඔපෙරා සොප්‍රානු ගායිකා කිශානී ලවා තම අපේක්ෂාවන් මුදුන් පමුණුවා ගැනීමට බලය . කිශානි බෞද්ධ පාසලක  උගත් බෞද්ධ  කාන්තාවකි  එහෙත් අවාසනාවකට ඔය කියන බෞද්ධ පාසල් වලත් උගන්වන්නේ  අනෙක් පාසල් […]