Shenali D Waduge Let us get down to the crux of the matter. Sri Lanka is a small nation but it is a small nation with a very long recorded history and a longer civilizational history. The nation was built with a history and the hela people today make up over 70% of the population. […]

Shenali D Waduge   The flagrant violation of diplomatic norms and general decency has been flouted by nations boasting to be ‘civilized’. Steered by America, contrived behind the scenes by Britain and assisted on ground by India there is a little doubt that a regime change took place on 8 January 2015. Of irrelevance was […]

Shenali D Waduge  The world socialist website carried an article by K Ratnayake on 16 February 2015, essence of which portrayed that the Presidential election outcome far from being an ‘uprising of the people’ against Rajapakse autocratic rule, it was a well-planned regime change orchestrated by the US-British-India nexus. The article carries readers from the […]

Shenali D Waduge The case for good governance and the current hurry to pass constitutional reforms cannot omit a very important clause which is the need to prohibit lawyer-politicians from practicing law and influencing decisions as well as making use of parliamentary privileges when they get cornered. Given the conflict of interest it is imperative […]

Shenali D Waduge The definitions, terminologies, norms and political correctness cannot be determined by people who have built their nations and developed their political influence as a result of plundering, murdering, converting and influencing indigenous nations and people. Nevertheless that is the status quo. It is the will influenced by former colonial power houses who […]

Shenali D Waduge Democracy and democratic systems cannot be based on a history conveniently interpreted to be read from Doctrine of Discovery onwards denying the civilizational histories and indigenous governing and legal systems that prevailed. Thus, the Buddhist foundation that powered governance and rule throughout Sri Lanka for over 2300 years cannot be brushed aside […]

Shenali D Waduge If arguments of foreign-funded regime change holds true, the 100-day program appears a replica of similar programs introduced to nations under foreign tutelage by ‘experts’ offering slogans for ‘Democracy’ and ‘Good Governance’. These were the very slogans used in all the hand-picked nations of Western geopolitical interests which ended up dethroning leaders […]

Shenali D Waduge Consequent to 9/11 the US declared a war on terror and countries were told ‘you are either with us or against us’. The LTTE foreign brains quickly came up with an unregistered alliance putting together Tamil political parties under an umbrella name Tamil National Alliance with representatives selected by LTTE and Prabakaran. […]

Shenali D Waduge If democracy is to be about giving the right for eligible voters to exercise their rights by voting for people of their choice, that right cannot be taken away through a dubiously contrived method to bring in people through the back door and to present them strategic high profile portfolios without them having […]

Shenali Waduge Everybody looked forward to the Rally for Unity a vigil held in Colombo on 28 April 2013 to oppose hate speech. The event was marred and exposed by the reporting of BBC`s Charles Haviland who showed the hypocrisy of the entire exercise About 500 people have marched through the centre of the Sri […]

By Shenali Waduge – Buddhists, victims of HATE SPEECH and Media manipulation They say you cannot fool the people all of the time and the recent announcement by a Minister who thinks he is doing a favour to those he closely associates with is like a blessing in disguise for the real victims of hate […]

By Shenali D. Waduge In cricket as well as in a host of other sports a system known as the player referral is now being used. In cricket parlance it is called the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) or Decision Review System (DRS). Generally, all inventions carry the name of the founder. In the case of […]

Shenali D Waduge  There is no map that has shown Sri Lanka to be part of India though 17 attempts had been made by South Indian Dravidian Tamil speaking invaders since 230BCE to invade Sri Lanka. The aspiration to appendage Sri Lanka to India remains an unfulfilled dream that looks to be steadily falling into […]

Shenali D Waduge The invitation to the Sri Lankan President to the UK coincides with the 200th anniversary since the Sinhale Nation was ceded to the British in 1815. If post-independent Sri Lankan leaders shied from reminding the British of their crimes during colonial rule, they should have at least had the pluck to remind […]

Shenali D Waduge The international community has made a tremendous blunder in ascertaining the aggrieved party. For too long the Tamils have succeeded to project themselves as the aggrieved minority when in reality there is need to take stock of the entire Tamil populace as against a very miniscule number of Sinhalese who have only […]

Shenali D Waduge  The name of the game is divide and rule, self-determination and balkanization all hallmarks of what India cannot ignore despite its efforts to avert or delay the inevitable. Importing Eelam from India to Sri Lanka managed to avert balkanization of India by 30 years, a period used by India to subtly form […]

Shenali Waduge Final days of war” and accountability is the hot topic in the diplomatic and international arena. Let us ask the Germans and the Japanese what they thought of when the Allied Troops flattened Dresden the night prior to Valentine’s Day in 1945 in a 2 night blanket bombing using 3,300 tons of high […]

Shenali D Waduge  It cannot be a coincidence that immediately following the visits to the North by US and British officials that the Northern Provincial Council has passed a Resolution claiming genocide by Sri Lanka. What needs to be reiterated is that the common enemy of Sri Lanka and its people was the LTTE which […]

Shenali D Waduge  Democratic regime change took place on 8th January 2015 upstaging within just 5 years the leader that ended 30 years of terrorism and became the only leader to do so and Sri Lanka the only nation that succeeded to militarily defeat the world’s most ruthless terrorist organization. That US and India and […]

By Shenali Waduge When the US declares a country is of ‘national interest’ it should not be hard to guess the reasons why, more so when President Obama himself arrives in Burma to start an obvious ‘US enters Asia’ drive. The US wish list is also clear – it wants Burma to be ‘friends’ with […]

Shenali D Waduge For the good governance mantra to have any effect it must be practiced in its truest form. Sri Lanka’s Parliament has an abundance of qualified lawyers both in the Opposition and Government and a majority of them are practicing law. No politician should take up positions and professions that give rise to […]

IS THIS THE YAHAPALANAYA PEOPLE VOTED FOR???? Sivanesan Memorial Hall declared open in Jaffna [TamilNet, Sunday, 01 February 2015, 18:40 GMT] A memorial hall has been declared open in Jaffna on Saturday in commemoration of Maamanithar K. Sivanesan, a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian who was assassinated in a targeted claymore explosion by the Deep […]

by Shenali D Waduge Slaughter every man, woman, and child (including babes suckling at the breast)” were the orders given by Governor Robert Brownrigg (3rd British Governor of Ceylon from 1813 – 1820) to Maj. Gen. Hay MacDowell in 1818. It is the edict that left the people in the agriculturally rich grain growing region […]

Shenali Waduge New York Times article ‘Helping Sri Lanka’s New Democracy’ by biased writer Ryan Goodman has humiliated Sri Lanka’s National Flag… placing a yankee carrying an American flag riding the lion (Sinhala race). If this is some sort of message the US is trying to convey… it is good for the Sri Lankan people […]

Shenali D Waduge On 8th January 2015 Sri Lankan voters voted for a President to lead the nation. The election that was to vote a President ended up with a Prime Minister being sworn in followed by close to 50 MPs majority belonging to the UNP while the rest composed of MPs that crossed over from […]

Shenali D Waduge As we approach what we are told is to be our ‘independence’ day it is good to ponder exactly how independent we are and what we connote to mean as being an independent nation. Are we to celebrate the symbolism of being called a ‘sovereign’ nation or do we feel and act […]

 Shenali D Waduge The people of Sri Lanka have short memories. They have forgotten decades that bore bloodshed, fear and destruction. That past cannot be forgotten. That past is replete with remnants that continue to plague the nation requiring it to remain under eternal vigilance. Do we want to sacrifice and reverse all that we […]

Shenali D Waduge The US and Western Christian nations have made clear their foreign policy objectives in Asia. The focus of Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic faith and the State of Vatican is also Asia. Asia is seen as having the greatest potential for the expansion of Catholicism. When the Church declares the […]

by Shenali D. Waduge There is an issue that has been overlooked. Firstly, it is the manner that Maithripala was parachuted to the role of Opposition Candidate ignoring the line-up UNP contenders including Ranil Wickremesinghe. Next, is the factor that emerges from numerous UNP crossovers to the possibilities of the UNP party diminishing into oblivion […]

Shenali D Waduge  The right to religious freedom does not and should not include the right to convert. Thus, those that are sent on missions to convert understandably cannot be expected to be treated as heroes particularly by a nation that is heir to an unique Sinhala Buddhist civilization lasting for over 2300 years, still […]