Author Archive for Sena Thoradeniya

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Impromptu Resignation:

Friday, March 8th, 2024

By Sena Thoradeniya Ex-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (GR) has written a book, The Conspiracy to Oust Me from the Presidency”. We have not read it yet. Our critique of the book can wait. In this essay we thought of bringing into the notice of GR and his ghost writer about a publication titled, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa […]

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In the Name of “Public Diplomacy”: Glory Days of Julie Chung, Welcoming Liz Allen, Afreen Akter, Lindsey Ford and Richard Verma : Silence of Anura Kumara

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

By Sena Thoradeniya US Ambassador Julie Chung was very busy welcoming Liz Allen, US Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, (on February 17), Afreen Akter, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs (Feb. 21), Lindsey Ford, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of  Defense for South and South East Asia […]

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Anura Kumara in India: The Village Boy Enticed by Gopis, – Lost in Vrindavan!

Thursday, February 15th, 2024

By Sena Thoradeniya Anura Kumara Dissanayaka was in India. Media reported that it was on an invitation by Indian Government. According to Indian media reports this visit was organized by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) affiliated to the Ministry of External Affairs and the delegation was accompanied by Eldos Mathew Punnoose, Counsellor at the […]

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THE STRANGE TALE OF NPP (MALIMAWA) AND JVP (SEENUWA): VULGAR REPRESENTATION OF MARXIST UNITED FRONT POLITICS

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

By Sena Thoradeniya A dog is smarter than its tail, but if the tail were smarter, then it would wag the dog”. 1. Relationship Between NPP and JVP Even for the political analyst it is problematic to comprehend the concrete and organic relationship that exists between the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (National Peoples’ Power – NPP) […]

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JULIE CHUNG OPPOSES ONLINE SAFETY BILL:  CLEAN UP YOUR OWN BACKYARD AT ALABAMA, BEFORE YOU TRY TO CLEAN UP SRI LANKA’S BACKYARD! 

Friday, January 26th, 2024

By Sena Thoradeniya Julie Chung, the Korean – American ‘Viceroy’ of Sri Lanka having climbed Sri Pada, with pilgrims and fellow adventurers appreciating the natural beauty”, enjoying the magnificent views at sunrise” on 19 January 2024 (how Chung saw a dissimilarity between ‘pilgrims’ and ‘adventurers’ is the biggest question! She does not bring Lord Buddha, […]

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A Sri Lankan Buddhist Priest as a Chaplain in US Defense Establishment: A Shocking Revelation by Julie Chung

Friday, January 12th, 2024

By Sena Thoradeniya Julie Chung the Korean – American ‘Viceroy’ of Sri Lanka, in her X message posted on 11 January 2023 had revealed some interesting information which we ordinary Sri Lankans are not aware of. Her message says: Today I met with Bhante Piyaratana a Buddhist Chaplain of Sri Lankan origin working with veterans […]

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Red Sea Deployment: Ranil Plays Pandu With Sri Lanka’s Security to Please the Americans

Friday, January 5th, 2024

By Sena Thoradeniya Whilst making an address at the Shilpa Abhimani 2023” Awards Ceremony held at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre on 3 January 2024, RW had the audacity to say that he is considering to send a warship to Red Sea in support of a US – led operation. It is astounding that […]

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“Helplessness and Confusion” In the Coming Year

Sunday, December 31st, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya Lenin in his Note, Helplessness and Confusion” dated May 21, 1913 stated that, chaos and confusion among modern Social-Democrats and ‘near Social-Democrats’ are not only external but also internal. A huge number of old ‘prominent Party people’ are completely confused, they have understood absolutely nothing about the new state of affairs” and […]

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JANUS-FACED JVP: FALSE CONCEPTIONS AND HARINI AMARASURIYA FACTOR

Thursday, December 14th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya Hitherto men have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. ……They the creators have bowed down before their creations. Let us liberate them from the chimeras, the ideas, dogmas, imaginary beings under the yoke of which they are pinning away”. […]

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KANDYAN CHIETAINS UNDER THE BRITISH – FINAL PART (PART IX)

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya (Continued from 24, October, 2023) Some Land Claims of Kandyan Chieftains 1. SABARAGAMUWA AND UVA In 1875 a vast quantity of valuable forest land was claimed by Chiefs and Headmen what were known as British Grants” – conferred upon them soon after the Kandyan War of Independence in 1817-1818 for the services […]

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ANURA KUMARA’S (AKD’S) TRYST IN AMERICA AND JULIE CHUNG’S APOLOGISTS

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has started his Presidential campaign” in America, months ahead of any Republican or Democratic candidate! He began his campaign in Los Angeles on October 28, 2023 addressing some Sri Lankans domiciled in the US, who do not have voting rights in Sri Lanka or cannot influence the […]

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KANDYAN CHIEFTAINS UNDER THE BRITISH –PART VIII

Tuesday, October 24th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya (Contd. From 07 October 2023) 1. Empire Day, Accession Day, Coronation, King’s Birthday, Victory Day, Armistice, Celebrated in Ceylon Empire Day (date of Queen Victoria’s birthday), Accession Day (anniversary of the date the Monarch took office), Jubilees, King’s Coronation, King’s Birthday, Victory Day and other public occasions were celebrated throughout the Island, […]

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KANDYAN CHIEFTAINS UNDER THE BRITISH – PART VII

Friday, October 6th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya (Contd. From 26 September 2023) Government Agent’s and Assistant Agent’s Circuits in the Provinces/Districts 1.Official Diaries: The activities of Government Agents and Assistant Agents were not limited to office work in kachcheris. They travelled throughout the Provinces and Districts respectively under their authority every month, sometimes several weeks continuously reviewing the work […]

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“Galle Face Protest: Systems Change or Anarchy? – Politics, Religion & Culture in a Time of Terror”

Sunday, October 1st, 2023

Reviewer –   Prof. N.A.de S. Amaratunga PhD, DSc There are two major impressions that the discerning reader will not miss while reading Galle Face Protest: Systems Change or Anarchy? – Politics, Religion & Culture in a Time of Terror”,writtenby Sena Thoradeniya. One is the vast amount of information it carries regarding the machinations that the […]

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KANDYAN CHIEFTAINS UNDER THE BRITISH – PART VI

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya (Contd. From 17 September 2023) 1. Land Claims of Chieftains In 1875 a vast quantity of valuable forest land was claimed by Chiefs and Headmen what were known as British Grants” conferred upon them soon after the Kandyan War of Independence in 1817-1818 for the services rendered by them to the British […]

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KANDYAN CHIEFTAINS UNDER THE BRITISH – PART V (Contd. From August 22)

Sunday, September 17th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya N. B. In a time of chaos, confusion, disorder and uncertainty discussing about Kandyan Chieftains may be interpreted as something akin to engaging in  ecstatic revelry, overlooking current issues. But as a modern myth has been created, that Kandyan Chiefs subverted” the policies of the British, expressed their resistance to British colonialism”, […]

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Channel 4, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith: Some Unanswered Questions and GR’s “Second Coming” (?)

Monday, September 11th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has become a celebrity newsmaker, a prominent object of media attention, like a Cardinal Superstar! (No comparison with 1973- American film Jesus Christ Superstar”). Oftentimes he gets an opportunity to create news and get media attention. These opportunities are made for him by either local politicians and bureaucrats or […]

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Julie Chung Re-writes History of Mannar

Saturday, August 26th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya These days Julie Chung, the US Ambassador is in Jaffna peninsula. Her Tour de Jaffna, meeting families of the disappeared, female officers of CBSL regional office Kilinochchi, woman-majority workforce producing and packaging curry and chillie powder, people engaged in USAID- funded see weed cultivation, North Central Naval Commander (discussed challenges to maritime […]

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KANDYAN CHIEFTAINS UNDER THE BRITISH – PART IV

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya N. B. In a time of chaos, confusion, disorder and uncertainty discussing about Kandyan Chieftains may be interpreted as something akin to engaging in  ecstatic revelry, overlooking current issues. But as a modern myth has been created, that Kandyan Chiefs subverted” the policies of the British, expressed their resistance to British colonialism”, […]

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India Paints Sri Lanka (in Red?)

Friday, August 18th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya Several decades ago, at school we used Philip’s Modern School Atlas and saw countries of Asia, Africa and South America were given different colours to symbolise which colonialists – British, French, Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch or Italian – had subjugated those countries. On the occasion of the 77 th Independence Day of […]

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KANDYAN CHIEFTAINS UNDER THE BRITISH – PART III

Friday, August 11th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya Beginning with the third part of this essay we give examples to illustrate the unholy alliance that existed between the British Colonialists and Kandyan Chieftains perpetuating Colonial Administration in Ceylon. This aspect will be discussed under several sub-headings. At the outset it should be mentioned that there are certain limitations to this […]

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KANDYAN CHIEFTAINS UNDER THE BRITISH – PART II OF “DULLEWA ADIGAR AND SOMANA CLOTH –AN EXAMPLE OF “ELITE” SERVILITY”

Thursday, August 3rd, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya The first part of this article was published on May 13, 2023 in LankaWeb three months ago. As we were engrossed in a major work in the last few months, we did not have time to see its conclusion. (1) Debunking Myths The main objective of the second part of our article […]

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Julie Chung Commemorates “Black July”

Wednesday, July 26th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya  On 24 July, 2023 Julie Chung the American Ambassador, on the anniversary of Black July”, attended a special exhibit” of the sculptor (who moved the Court of Appeal against Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s candidature that he had not renounced his US citizenship), to see the powerful and moving stories expressed through art that reveal […]

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Continuity or Change?

Sunday, July 23rd, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya Sri Lanka is still reeling from the blows of economic meltdown and bowing down to continuous pressures from Western capitals, this time from Canada as well and India. Hopelessness for the future rather than an abstract theoretical construct has become ingrained in the minds of people as an irrefutable fact. Men and […]

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ගෝල්ෆේස් ඊනියා අරගලයේ ඇතුළාන්තය ගැන සේන තෝරදෙනිය ගෙන් සුවිශේෂී හෙළිදරව්වක් (වීඩියෝ)

Wednesday, July 5th, 2023

Lanka Lead News කෘතහස්ත ලේඛක සේන තෝරදෙනිය මහතා විසින් ඊනියා ගෝල්ෆේස් අරගලයේ ඇතුලාන්තය සම්බන්ධයෙන් විශ්ලේෂණාත්මකව ලියන ලද GALLE FACE PROTEST: SYSTEMS CHANGE OR ANARCHY? Politics, Religion & Culture in a Time of Terror in Sri Lanka” ග්‍රන්ථය 2023 ජූලි මස 04 වෙනි දින කොළඹ 7 නිදහස් මාවතේ පිහිටි පුස්තකාල හා ප්‍රලේඛන සේවා මණ්ඩල ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී එළි […]

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Taking the lid off the Golden Bowl

Wednesday, July 5th, 2023

By Gunadasa Amarasekera Courtesy The Island (Introduction to Sena Thoradeniya’ s book- Galle Face Protest: System Change or Anarchy?) (Introduction to Sena Thoradeniya’ s book- Galle Face Protest: System Change or Anarchy?) ‘US foot prints at GF protest site’ deals with the international players involved in the Aragalaya. In the article ‘Who were most afraid of […]

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DULLEWA ADIGAR AND SOMANA CLOTH – AN EXAMPLE OF “ELITE” SERVILITY – PART I

Saturday, May 13th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya (1) Introduction This article was first published in The Island” online edition on March 31, 2020 during the covid pandemic under the title Dullewa Dissawa and Somana Cloth”. Since a modern myth is invented and spread by some columnists who write to English dailies in Sri Lanka that (1) the British Colonialists […]

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“NINE; THE HIDDEN STORY” – WIMAL WEERAWANSA’S VALIANT REVELATIONS

Monday, May 1st, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya I am disappointed that an MP has made baseless allegations & spread outright lies in a book that should be labelled fiction”. For 75 years the US and SL have showed commitments to democracy, sovereignty and prosperity and future we continue to build together”, twittered American Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung […]

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Of British Colonial Administrators with Special Reference to C.J.R. Le Mesurier, Assistant Government Agent of Nuwara Eliya District and British Planters in the Central Province of Ceylon in 1870 -1895

Sunday, March 12th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya (Excerpts from a Forthcoming Publication Titled Dumbara Rata”) (1) Introduction Still our Kalu Suddhas lament that Ceylon lost British planters owing to granting of Independence” to the country and then impending nationalisation of the plantations. They add that the brown sahibs left the country owing to Sinhala Only” Act and later Land […]

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Cattle in the Kandyan Countryside Under British Colonialists

Sunday, February 19th, 2023

By Sena Thoradeniya From time to time Sri Lankan Ministers in charge of Agriculture and Livestock Development and their officials attempted to improve the breed of cattle by means of imported animals. A few decades ago, it was alleged that a stock of cattle imported from a foreign country was infected with various types of […]

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