Shenali D Waduge Are we barking up the wrong tree? We often target the politicians little realizing that most often they act on advice given to them. In such a scenario, have we omitted to look into the role of senior offilicials & questioned if they could have misled the governors & the govt? Did […]

Shenali D Waduge Let us compare how the international community reacted to 2 incidents of riots targeting State buildings in US & Sri Lanka & the hypocrisy of those issuing statements in response to both incidents. Let us also compare how the world reacted to law enforcements clear the rioters in US and the manner […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s Parliament consists of 225 Members of Parliament from which 196 are elected by the People and 29 are not-elected but nominated by the respective parties & enter depending on the allocation as per the votes obtained by each party. Therefore, the composition of the National List corresponds to the votes […]

Shenali D Waduge The term democracy” has become a tool used to undermine democracy in the name of democracy by interfering into the internal affairs of countries & causing mayhem. What the CIA did back in the 1970s has now been outsourced to an entity called NED – National Endowment for Democracy. Entire vocabulary of […]

Shenali D Waduge In April 2021, Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapakse banned chemical fertilizer. The decision was sudden & no one really knew who advised the President. It now emerges that the President was advised by none other than Indian ecologist Vandana Shiva. As a result paddy crop failed resulting in retail price of rice […]

Shenali D Waduge An 11 member far-right militia group Oath Keepers” are charged with seditious conspiracy for January 2021 while another group was also charged in January 2022 attacks on the US Capitol. More than 725 Trump supporters were arrested for their role in opposing transfer of presidential powers. Sedition is the attempt to overthrow, put […]

Shenali D Waduge 13th July 2022 will be remembered as the day an elected President resigned becoming the only President since 1978 to do so. He was the 7thPresident of Sri Lanka but one who was unlucky enough to inherit a legacy for which only he has been held accountable. Though 6.8m voters voted him to […]

Shenali D Waduge The political system has collapsed. Mob rule has taken over. Where lies the People’s mandate? Is Sri Lanka a functioning democracy or is life to function as per protests, protestors & their demands? What will life be under such a system of lawlessness & disorder when a handful decides what is law […]

Shenali D Waduge We are in the midst of a political crisis emerging out of an economic crisis. People’s emotions are high as a result of the sufferings they have to undergo affecting their homes & livelihoods. While debt has been carried forward and made worse with every successive governments, no government is elected to […]

Shenali D Waduge Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith is calling for justice for Easter Sunday, we all want justice, but why didn’t he call for justice for the victims of LTTE crimes? He doesn’t do so because the Church was heavily involved in the LTTE-Eelam-separatist project as part of West’s geopolitical & conversion agenda in South Asia. […]

ShenalI D Waduge The public are listening with interest & shock to the questions and answers emerging from the COPE sessions. COPE & COPA are regarded as the Parliamentary WatchDog. Members of Parliament sitting on both Committees grill Public Officials questioning their actions, calling for explanations, national policies and even directing the CID to investigate. […]

Shenali D Waduge Leaving aside the global crisis as a result of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Sri Lanka’s Govt is doing a pretty good job adding to the crisis. Is there any truth in the allegation that the government has created the energy crisis for the kickbacks and commissions taken by politicians, public officials and their […]

Shenali D Waduge Let us return to the impeachment of 2 Chief Justices of Sri Lanka – how they were removed matters not so much as the trial or the allegations related therein. Another noteworthy feature is the manner one Chief Justice got full international backing while the other received only international condemnation. This is quite strange for […]

Shenali D Waduge Do civil society” actually represent Sri Lankan citizens or are they representatives of those that fund or pay their salaries? Their connections and the manner they network provide clues. While they point fingers claiming politicians should serve a term, how long have they held posts in these organizations? While they project themselves […]

Shenali D Waduge By the time we understand the truth it is too late, the damage has been done. For Libyans, they have to face their sad fate. Falling under heavily funded Western propaganda of lies turning Gaddafi into a ‘dictator’ and requiring to be ousted in order for Libyans to be liberated, Gaddafi was […]

Shenali D Waduge The reason US invaded countries of Latin America for 39 years was bananas. However, the Nicaraguan operation was different. US was involved in 2 covert operations in Nicaragua & Iran (1984-1987) The 1stoperation was to use a Honduran rebel group called Contras against the Nicaraguan Government of Sandinista. The 2nd covert operation was […]

Shenali Waduge  The Decision Review System known as UDRS or DRS or the Player Referral concept is in vogue not only in cricket but in many other sports activities where the Third Umpire plays the role of an Appeal Judge. Who came up with this concept & when is a question the International Cricket Committee […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka was always sitting on a time bomb. Our expenses were higher than our income/revenues, our imports were higher than our exports, we were living a superficial life on loans, taking more loans to settle loans and even loans to continue our lifestyle – it was only a matter of time […]

Shenali D Waduge Ever since Mahinda Rajapakse came into political limelight he has been targeted. Perhaps the targeting and name calling became a primary reason for the majority populace to back him. He did not come from the Colombo elite coterie though from a well-known southern family. Yet, the elitist circles still regarded him an […]

Shenali D Waduge The current government is only a caretaker government with a cocktail cabinet. Its mandate was to only deal with the financial crisis. The prime minister has no mandate to give state land to anyone as title ownership. The same prime minister attempted to do same since 1999. He was ousted by the […]

Shenali D Waduge The caretaker Prime Minister is once again trying to complete the project given to him – his vision was to destroy agriculture, transfer agricultural land and see farmers in jeans. He even promised chewing gum and gold chains to the farmers in Polonnaruwa in 1999. This was the Parakumba era Ranil wanted […]

ShenalI D Waduge Argentina gained independence from Spain in 1810. Like Sri Lanka, Argentina is rich in agriculture with vast fertile land. Unlike Sri Lanka, by 1913 Argentina became one of the world’s 10th wealthiest states. Like Sri Lanka, political instability became a factor for Argentina’s decline. Unlike Sri Lanka, Argentina was ruled by the military […]

Shenali D Waduge Cambridge Analytica showed the world how personal information of people on social media is used to swing elections. Is the same being applied in Sri Lanka. Protests are a new norm. All types of people join affording opportunities for others who join for different reasons. What or who is psychologically motivating them […]

BY SHENALI WADUGE  Sri Lanka’s economic debacle is a collective result of embracing capitalist consumerism, importing more than exporting, spending more than earning, taking loans to continue artificial lifestyle & taking more loans to pay the loans & not utilizing loans for viable alternative return-on-investments. Alongside this reality was another more important & ignorant fact. Elected […]

Shenali Waduge IMF cannot wash its hands off taking blame for Sri Lanka’s economic crisis When PM Ranil was controversially made PM in 2015, he brought the Central Bank under him and the Governor had to report to him. The Governor was his school buddy & his successor was another buddy All of them were […]

Shenali D Waduge It is legal to protest but there are restrictions. Are protestors aware of the restrictions? If not, the onus is on the Sri Lankan Govt, the Sri Lankan Police to clearly make public what is legal and what is not & it must be communicated by the Govt’s Media division. GoSL must […]

Shenali D Waduge It took US 60 years (19 Aug 2013) of silence and denial to finally admit to its role in toppling the elected PM of Iran Mohammad Mossadegh on 19 August 1953. There was no social media then, no artificial intelligence, no NGOs of the kind present today, all it took was one […]

Shenali D Waduge There was no term called Dravidian until a British missionary arriving in India in 1838 created it to serve several agendas of the Church. The next 40 years was spent in converting Hindu Tamils, promoting a fictitious history and setting natives against each other. Much of the conflicts, confusions and contradictions present […]

Shenali D Waduge Colonization was when people were sent to occupy territories and claim them as their own drawing artificial borders and christening them with artificial names. Neo-colonialism prevailed using international systems created by the colonials. Digital colonization is when multinational tech companies extract, analyze and own user data & then claim to bring laws […]

Shenali D Waduge The caretaker Prime Minister in Parliament made an emotional appeal showing his concern for farmers in these trying times who could not obtain loans because they did not have title ownership to the State land leased to them. His solution was to give full ownership to those on state land. Besides the […]