By Dr. Susantha Goonatilake In a article a few days ago, Dr. Nirmala Chandrahasan, a Consultant for the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR), had written on early Buddhist links between Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu. She, I believe, is the wife of Chandrahasan, a son of Chelvanayakam, founder of the Federal Party and […]

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By Susantha Goonatilake In 1993 with the Khmer Rouge still partly operational, my wife went to Cambodia on behalf of the UN, in charge of the UN women’s projects there, women were the majority after the Pol Pot war. I remember at the time that visitors to Angkor Wat were scarce, probably around 15,000. And […]

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By Susantha Goonatilake A few days ago China’s President Xi Jinping visited the UK. And the British media reportedthat the British leaders and itsestablishment: groveled , kowtowed” (dana gahala vandinawa, on bended knee), the USAlost its best friend to its rival”, the 19th century Chinese humiliation by the British was now reversed” and China was […]

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ආචාර්ය සුසන්ත ගුණතිලක අතීතයේ ජනාධිපති ඡන්දවලදී මෙන් නොව මෑතකදී අනුරාධපුරයේ පවත්වන ලද එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සංධාන රැස්වීමේද ලංගම බස්වලින්් පාක‍ෂිකයන් ඇදීමක් දක්නට නොවීය. එසේ වුවද මහ නුවර පවත්වන ලද යූඇන්පී රැස්වීමට පැමිණි සිටි පිරිසට වඩා සංධාන රැස්වීමට පැමිණි පිරිස අති මහත් විය. මෙම සිද්ධිය වූයේ මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන තෙවරක්ම තමාගේ පක‍ෂයට ද්‍රෝහි වීමෙන් පසුව තමා අවලංගු […]

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Susantha Goonatilake The recent UPFA Anuradapura meeting did not see hundreds of CTB buses transporting supporters as were the case in the presidential election. But the crowds appeared bigger and were definitely larger than the UNP meeting in Kandy. And this was after Sirisena had backstabbed his own party three times, in the process becoming […]

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By Susantha Goonatilake I cannot quite remember when I first met S L Gunasekara. As I recall,it was a few decades ago at an embassy cocktail party, at a time when heads like me of scientific associations were also invited. He recalled his correct stand at the Thimpu talks which I had dismissed as Indian […]

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