H. L. D. Mahindapala My friend Dayan Jayatilekaƒ”š‚ ‘s latest book Long War, Cold Peace is exactly what I anticipated it to be: 1. overloaded with quotes from the Marxist mafia; 2. an equal measure of theoretical puffery; 3. self-contradictions; 4. self-congratulatory passages; 5. the least amount analysis of the historical roots that preceded the official […]

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By Garvin Karunaratne Former Government Agent Matara District.. ƒ”š‚ I have in several of my Papers detailed as toƒ”š‚  Why the 13 th Amendment should be abolished. I have detailed my experiences in my eighteen years’ service in the Administrative Service implementing development programmes islandwide. To state briefly if I were to work in either the […]

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Insight By Sunil Kumar April 30th 2013 While it is the prerogative of the Canadian Government to launch any attack on Sri Lanka’s “appalling” record on democratic accountability based on how Canada percieves it, perhaps in a myopic and distortedƒ”š‚ perspective relative to assumed “human rights abuses”, Canada has also chosen to create controversies which merely […]

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Shenali Waduge The decision to hold the 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting or CHOGM in Sri Lanka was endorsed by a proposal made in 2009 by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the CHOGM summit held in Trinidad and Tobago. But in an “All together chorus”ƒ”š‚ the bandwagon of almost the same people […]

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C. Wijeyawickrema I have always felt sympathetic toward the three Bandaranayake children because their father was killed cruelly and they suffered tremendously in their younger days because of that.ƒ”š‚  Mrs. B could not handle them well as a single mother because she also got forced into politics by the circumstances. There was a baby sitter […]

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Chandre Dharmawardana The Bodu-Bala Sena (BBS) is a political movement crystallizing mainly around Sinhala-Buddhist advocates of strong anti-Islamism. The knee-jerk reaction of opportunist political observers is to regard this as an example of a majoritarian populace behaving brutally, after having `caused Sinhala-Tamil terror’ by allegedly provoking the Tamils with “ƒ”¹…”Sinhala-only’ discrimination. The BBS has also […]

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Dr Hector Pereraƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  London Energy like gas and electricity do not come for nothing, they cost you something, and somebody has to pay. Fortunately the energy from sun comes for free but cannot harness enough for nothing unless there are right equipments. For countries such as Sri Lanka no energy is used to warm their […]

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