Ramanie de Zoysa There is an apt Sinhala saying balallun lava kos ata bawanawa”; the phrase literally means someone is using a cat’s paw to pull out (roated) Jak seeds (kos ata) from the fire. Jak seeds roasted in a woodfire is a tasty treat eaten by Sinhala villagers; once roasted, one needs a fireproof […]

Ramanie de Zoysa Dear editor, Today is Wesak full moon day; it is Wesak for the United Nations and it is Wesak for the other few Buddhist countries – namely Thailand, Myanmar and Laos- but not for Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Buddhists have been conned into removing Wesak from the full moon day of May- […]

Ramanie de Zoysa Mailed to: 1). Attention Mr Donald Trump, the President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Copy to: Mr Donald Trump, C/O The Trump Organization, 725 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10022.Dear President, The True Face of Tamils for Trump & the Islamic colonisation of […]

Ramanie de Zoysa The Constitution of Sri Lanka is being changed to reflect the findings and recommendations of PRCCR committee that received public opinions from less than .017% of Sri Lanka’s 21m population. Of this miniscule sample of 3655 submissions received, at least 70% were signed by Tamils and Muslims – among them well known […]

Ramanie de Zoysa The so-called ‘yahapalanaya’ government appointed a Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform (PRCCR”) in January this year with the mandate of researching public opinion in Sri Lanka on constitutional reform and to prepare a report and recommendations that can be pushed through the parliament and the constitution changed. The move was entirely […]

Ramanie de Zoysa Sri Lanka is back in 2002- but only worse! In 2002, Ranil Wickremesinghe put on his tie and coat and posed for photographs with Prabhakaran in a safari jacket- to shake hands and hand over the lion’s share of the country to form an ethnically cleansed Tamil Eelaam. In 2016, the suit […]

Ramanie de Zoysa Sri Lanka’s President and Prime Minister together with the so-called ‘Executive Council’ where the ‘minority is majority’ passed down the moronic phrase for public consumption- and the Foreign Secretary stated it publicly- They are our people too- so we should not celebrate!!!” – In other words we don’t know how to celebrate […]

Ramanie de Zoysa War hero Ratnayaka Mudiyanselage Sunil Ratnayaka is on death row at the age of just 38 for the crime of protecting his country from a 30 year pogrom of ruthless LTTE terror because the present Sri Lankan Government wants to appease the LTTE rump who enjoys much political succor in England, the […]

Ramanie de Zoysa War hero Ratnayaka Mudiyanselage Sunil Ratnayaka is on death row at the age of just 38 for the crime of protecting his country from bloodshed and ruin. Very little is known of Sunil by the public at large even though the so-called mirusuvil massacre” he is accused of participating in, is an […]

Ramanie de Zoysa This is a time when all that needed to be said has been said and only the last action remains. After the last action is taken rightly or wrongly we shall all endure what comes out of our collective action! To think that on that blessed day of 19 May 2009 we […]

Rudra Gamini de Zoysa There are some major considerations to be taken in to account when we try to understand why Britain is so overtly antagonistic towards Sri Lanka ever since the Government of Sri Lanka defeated Tamil terrorism in 2009. I believe that the reasons are largely found in Britain’s foreign policy crafted in […]

Ramanie de Zoysa The LTTE videos that are circulating widely showing men in uniform torturing, degrading and killing disrobed prisoners have had an enormous amount of currency among the gullible and uninitiated while the videos have been an enormous weapon against the country in the hands of the enemies of Sri Lanka. ƒ”š‚ For those who […]

Ramanie de Zoysa (The writer hoAccountantlds an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Sri Lanka, a Bachelor of Business Studies from Massey University in New Zealand and is a New Zealand Chartered .) Sri Lanka, in all good faith, went all out to embrace the International Indian Film Academy (“ƒ”¹…”IIFA’) Awards event to […]

Ramanie de Zoysa Personally, there are only two people in this universe, before whom I would kneel down, touch the soil trampled by them with my forehead and worship. One is no more in mortal form but the force of his compassion, wisdom and the deliverance from suffering he brought to the world reverberates in […]

Ramanie de Zoysa The US State Department in a letter addressed to the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister has kindly informed that “Secretary Clinton believes that Sri Lanka must focus to the future and move forward “ƒ”š‚¦.” ƒ”š‚ When Sri Lanka crushed the LTTE terrorists fairly and squarely in an unprecedented military battle and emerged victorious THAT […]

Ramanie de Zoysa It was Samuel Taylor Coleridge who said that “Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming”; this would be a visionary statement for Sri Lanka post- Prabhakaran with key words being “ƒ”¹…”weak minds’ and “ƒ”¹…”excess’. ƒ”š‚ The Sri Lankan military created world history […]

Ramanie de Zoysa For all the reams of paper that has been used to evoke pathos by all and sundry on behalf of the “ƒ”¹…”suffering’ Sri Lankan IDPs in the North absolutely no mention has been or is made of the immense wealth these very “ƒ”¹…”IDPs’ are reported to have deposited into Banks especially set […]