by Gam Vaesiya, Canada There was a time when world leaders respected India as the leader of the `non-aligned’ nations, with `Bandung’ reverberating between the military power blocks. The west’s answer was to subvert Pakistan’s democracy and convert it to a client-state run by military bosses who answered Washington, and watched over India using Kashmir […]

More Insight By Sunil Kumar February 28th 2013 Perhaps It needs to be shouted out from the mountain tops to a misguided world that the pressure being applied to Sri Lanka at the UNHRC from many quarters and wherever the Ugly Spector ofƒ”š‚ the issue of antagonism against Sri Lanka raises its headƒ”š‚ are all sourced by […]

UNHRC sessions in Geneva yesterday To some, reconciliation in the Sri Lankan context must be based principally on issues of “ƒ”¹…”retributive justice and accountability’, Plantations Minister and President’s Special Envoy on Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe said addressing the 22nd UNHRC sessions in Geneva yesterday. “This is just one aspect, but the overall dimensions of the […]

Shenali Waduge India is getting its media to relay photos of Prabakaran’s dead son and interviewing Callum Macrae producer of the latest documentary tarnishing Sri Lanka’s image but has conveniently forgotten how India’s Central Government refused entry to Prabakaran’s own ailing 79 year old mother (Velupillai Parvathi Pillai) with Indian policemen not even allowing her […]

Asada M Erpini The news item, in a Sri Lankan English journal on Wednesday, 27 February, reporting the statements and the opinions of the External Affairs Minister of India as regards Sri Lanka is full of inaccuracies and downright non-sensical pontifications. First and foremost, the Indian Minister is under the mistaken belief “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” Wake up […]

ƒ”š‚ Ernest Perera It saddens me to see how many of our children who are now grown up men and women holding important posts opt to take the path of ridiculing the nation that they were born in, the nation they grew up and a nation that holds good and bad memories for their parents and […]

by Sarath W It is disgusting to read some of the anti Rajapaksa cartoons and mail circulating in the electronic media. Some stupid and ungrateful Sri Lankans are even happy that the US and it’s allies are talking about a motion against Sri Lanka at the forth comming security council meeting.Some of my friends from […]

Mahinda Gunasekera By E-mail 84 Tambrook Drive Agincourt, Ontario M1W 3L9 February 26, 2013 ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Editor Toronto Star 1 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M5E 1E6 Dear Editor, Human Rights Watch Report Concerning Alleged Rape In Sri Lanka I wish to refer to the article written by Olivia Ward on the subject published in your newspaper […]

by A. Abdul Aziz ƒ”š‚ (Given below is an excerpt of one of the recent Friday Sermons of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, delivered at “ƒ”¹…”Baithul Futhuh’, London, U.K. gave a discourse based on the writings of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – the Promised Messiah (on whom […]

Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies ƒ”š‚ 20th February, 2013, Colombo. ƒ”š‚ The Seminar “Sri Lanka’s Ocean Resource: Our Hidden Gold Mine”ƒ”š‚ was conducted by the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies on the 20thof February 2013 from 2pm to 6 pm at the Kadirgamar Institute. The seminar brought together eminent […]