By Manisha Fernando Watching ƒ”š‚ the recent socio-economic developments in the country, I kept wondering whether we Sri Lankans were indeed cursed to always “miss a golden opportunity”ƒ”š‚ for becoming the most developed nation in the region having vanquished the most ruthless terrorist outfit in the world! No doubt, it was leadership, courage, dedication and supreme […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar Dec.19th 2009ƒ”š‚  The desperation in the Sarath Fonseka power grab attempt at any cost casting aside his loyalties to his former CEO the President of Sri Lanka seems to be growing and the Nation needs to be made aware of it emphatically. It could however work out favourably for The President […]

ƒ”š‚ Sanjaya Somasiri – Courtesy defence.lk Management Expert Alec McKenzie once wrote “errant assumptions lie at the root of most failures”. Presidential candidate, S. Fonseka has made a wrong assumption when he decided to join hands with the forces that were acting against Sri Lanka. His recent statement to a Sunday newspaper, in which he accused […]

By Darmitha The upcoming Presidential Elections have taken a twist which came quite suddenly on Sri Lankans due to the bankrupt politics of the JVP and the UNP whose leadership finally discovered that they did not have a strong enough candidate to pose a challenge to President Mahinda Rajapakse. True to their nature, they cornered […]

L. Jayasooriya Judging by the assets that SF has declared as given in the front page of the Island on Saturday 19th December he is a pauper compared to even some provincial councillors, never mentioning others. SF has also said that he has no assets other than what he has now made public. His total […]

Shripal Nishshanka Fernando The Sinhalese proverb “Kunu Godata Kunu Ekathu Wey” is recently proven again by the latest member of “ƒ”¹…”The Club of Traitors of Sri Lanka’ Arjuna Ranatunga. Although he was a good cricketer his most indecent and selfish behaviour demonstrates his unsporting character. He is very lacking of sportsman qualities as one does […]

Malin Abeyatunge The reasons for Arjuna Ranatunga’s decision to support Sarath Fonseka (SF) as reported in the print media were that SF is honest and has a vision to re-establish democracy and eradicate corruption. Let us discuss each of his reasons. He will be honest until SF declares his assets both here and overseas. He […]

L. Jayasooriya MR gave us pride and self respect when Milliband and his friend came to order him to stop the war so that they could make use of Prabakaran to do all their dirty work in South Asia. MR did not even meet with them. They had to go to some remote place and […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata I refer to the enlightened article by Mr.J.Jayasundera. The writer must be congratulated for his courageous depiction of the “ƒ”¹…”despicable state’ of things in Sri Lanka. The time has come to call a spade a spade. Holding pujas of whatever nature to whomsoever would not only not help Sri Lanka’s cause […]

By Shelton A. Gunaratneƒ”š‚©2010 I created adventure out of my global peregrinations even after I turned 50.ƒ”š‚  I was thinking as if I were a man of half that age when I got engrossed in jogging along the towpaths of the canals of London, the alleys of Tianjin, the footpaths of Happawana or around the […]

ALI SUKHANVER ƒ”š‚ Some times the hunter becomes the hunt and the gunner himself becomes a target. A few weeks back an international conference on terrorism was organized at Vigyan Bhavan, India. Most of the speakers were well known scholars and lawyers from all over the world. Everything was going smooth but suddenly it all became […]

ALI SUKHANVER The writer is a Pakistan based bilingual analyst on international defense and strategic affairs. Human rights violation is one of the most grievous problems of today’s modern and so-called civilized society. Every year so many innocent people have to be a victim of human rights violations throughout the world. The system of the […]

Nava Thakuria in Copenhagen The world witnessed for almost two weeks how the negotiations went on during the UN global climate conference in the freezing cold Danish capital. The conference, the biggest in the history of mankind for the cause of environment, witnessed the participation of over 130 heads of government and states from around […]