By GOMIN DAYASRI Didn’t waste time of Mahinda Rajapakse [MR] by seeking appointments when he was the President! But when he lost, sought a meeting and was promptly told to come early next morning to a Colombo address. Probably he carried no diary being without an official Secretary. We sat in a private room sandwiched between […]

– ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ අධිනීතිඥ ගෝමින් දයාසිරි Courtesy Divaina ජනාධිපතිවරයා සතු විධායක බලතල සංවරණය කිරීමට යෝජිත 19 වැනි ව්‍යවස්‌ථා සංශෝධනය මේ දිනවල පුළුල් කතාබහකට ලක්‌ව ඇති මාතෘකාවකි. 19 වැනි ව්‍යවස්‌ථා සංශෝධනය යනු කුමක්‌ද? එයින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා සතු බලතල අඩු කරන්නේ කෙසේද? ජනාධිපති තනතුරට වැඩි බලතල ලබාදීම ජේ. ආර්. ජයවර්ධන ජනාධිපතිවරයා සකස්‌ කළ ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවේ පදනම වූ බැවින් එම තනතුරේ බලතල […]

By Gomin Dayasri J.R.Jayewaradane will sigh a relief and break into a wry smile if he finds his constitution is dislodged. As it is, he may have to live with it – a life after death. Shove altogether now, but presidency keeps bobbing up and down Those with wafer thin majorities exploited the 1978 Constitution to […]

By Gomin Dayasri Happenings around are unenviable: zany events unfold in rapid succession; voters are bewildered, skeptical, disoriented. Worse- democracy is not standing tall, as desired.  Corrupt practices remain alive and made sophisticated. Are we drifting aimlessly without a leadership? Loosing moorings is sailing towards a sunset unknown. Time is insufficient to ponder. Corruption is […]

By Gomin Dayasiri Constitutions are our creations; we select architects as well as contractors “The Constitution in the making (2015), desires to perpetrate feeble  governments in perpetuity. Somebody,  somewhere, does not want Ranil or Maithripala or Mahinda to give a strong  leadership with a stronger government in office”  Lying innocuously nestled, as a stand-alone provision, […]

Gomin Dayasri An odd couple rushed to build a home in100 days. Love’s lost and the gaze of paparazzi arises when political marriages go on the rocks. It means separation – Ranil Wickremasinghe has the least to loose; Sirisena could be rendered homeless. Loyalty to the government is flawed at the point Sirisena is tied […]

By  GOMIN DAYASRI Crowd at Nugegoda is a mini take of 58 lakhs of votes Mahinda Rajapakse obtained. Frailty and fragility in Sirisena’s armory stand exposed. SLFP singularly cannot hold a mammoth public meeting though President Sirisena heads the party and holds presidential power. Significantly the selected district for the meeting perennially favored the UNP […]

Gomin Dayasri Think twice before agreeing to appear on the cover of a business magazine.  A cautionary notice (need it be enlarged to the extent of a ghastly warning on a pack of cigarette) as the perilous rate of casualties of the introduced icons is phenomenal.  Those who zoom to the maximum and strike cover […]

By  Gomin Dayasri Office of the Chief Justice is a pew of reverence and dignity and not a site for a game of musical chairs where three occupants held the hot seat within a space of three judicial days. This zany entry will find a place in a book of records or form a smart question […]

By Gomin Dayasri 100 – day government is off to an astonishing start. President Sirisena appoints Cabinet Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition to display bi- partisanship to an embarrassing maximum. Party leaders enter into a marriage of convenience between the fractions of the SLFP to hold a shotgun wedding solely for their own benefit. […]

 By Gomin Dayasri  Initials S.L surpassed surname Gunasekera. Branded to blend with the land of his birth – his name attracted shades of love and despair. Reciprocally, he loved those who made the country proud and despised those that discredited his cherished land. His countrymen to their inclinations called him a patriot or racist: he […]