By Bandu de Silva-Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to France, and the Vatican” For a small country like Sri Lanka, meeting the challenge of a super power like the US is an up-hill task. There is no match at all. Sri Lanka does not have even economic resources as Iran or Libya under Colonel Gaddafi had, […]

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– Kumar Moses In an unprecedented development, Israel jointed the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) of the UNHRC when it re-joined UNHRC after a lapse of 18 months. It is unprecedented because Israel was always in the Asia group. Geographically too Israel is an Asian country. But by unanimous agreement it was admitted to […]

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C. Wijeyawickrema  Mr. DBS Jeyaraj under the title, “Sixty-six Years of Independent Sri Lanka and the Tamil State of Mind,” (6 February 2014) on his own website, an essay that he says was, “an updated version of the DBS Jeyaraj Column article that appeared in the Daily Mirror of February 2nd 2013, appeals moderate Sinhala […]

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By Wendell W Solomons Top-down reforms led Sri Lanka into becoming a follower of the economic doctrine proposed by US President Ronald Reagan. The reforms were imposed vigorously by a prot©g© when he was elected into leadership office in Sri Lanka. J R Jayewardene had struggled for this office in the island for a quarter […]

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Plum blossom  In this whole UNHRC saga, India is the most slithery snake that Sri Lanka should watchout for. It is the most cunning, evil country around for sure. In fact, it won’t be at all a surprise if it is India who is behind these utterly false and bogus allegations of human rights violations. […]

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Dr.Tilak Fernando The Sri Lankan whom I met in London during early 1990s could be introduced as a medical man with compounded ambitions, talents and achievements from medicine, surgery, literal activity to drama – I have always referred to him as someone with “scalpel in one hand, pen in the other and feet on stage […]

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