H. L. D. Mahindapala Paths, roads,, highways are everlasting  routes to the future. They connect people and bring them together for good or for bad. Generations will use them for their convenience. They will use the established routes to leave the past and explore and build new futures. Roads become the avenues to explore their […]

By Charles. S.Perera This is the Christmas Season. One cannot therefore while celebrating the birth of Jesus who was born  to liberate the people of their sins and bring happiness to the world, forget at the same time Judas Iscariot. Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples of  Jesus. He was a trusted friend […]

Shenali D Waduge All the talk on ‘inclusiveness’ ‘peaceful co-existence’ ‘reconciliation’ all need to be questioned given the discussions that reveal the demands being made by minority ethno-political parties in support for Presidential candidates. These ethno-political parties are demanding exclusive separate ethnic-districts for their people while having the right to live and own land throughout […]

Ganapathy Moorthy I would like to write it in first person as I want to express my views and feelings just as I happened to grasp them.  Therefore, whoever read it, agree or disagree with it, but I just want them to think about what I said before they make any conclusion. As a Sri […]

By Don Wijewardana Recent domestic and global developments clearly indicate LTTE-related issues are re-emerging as major influences impacting on Sri Lanka’s security and stability.  But the opposition Common candidate Maithripala Sirisena’s manifesto does not address any of the related issues of reconciliation, terrorism, or separation.  When asked, he has said his main focus is the […]

Nimal Rajakaruna Melbourne Australia I am one who is reluctant to write on Sri Lankan politics but as someone who had actively supported Sihala Urumaya and then Jathika Hela Urumaya especially during war times and when Sri Lanka was in the verge of being divided in to pieces, thought of highlighting some facts exposed during the last […]

– நடேசன் எதிர்வரும் ஜனாதிபதித் தேர்தலில் இலங்கையில் வாழும் தமிழர்கள் மிகவும் கவனமாக சிந்தித்து வாக்களிக்கவேண்டும் என்ற கட்டாயத்திற்குத் தள்ளப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்கள். இவர்களது வாக்குகள் சமூகத்தின் – நாட்டின் எதிர்காலத்தை திர்மானிப்பது மட்டுமல்ல தனிமனிதர்களின் எதிர்காலத்தையும் வரையறுப்பது. இலங்கைவாழ் தமிழர்களின் தவறுகளை சுட்டிக்காட்டுவதற்கு இது தருணமல்ல என்றாலும்; கடந்தகாலத்தை இலகுவில் கடந்து போக முடியாது. மறந்துவிடவும் முடியாது. 77இல் கொழும்புத் தமிழர்கள் மலையகத்தமிழர்கள் நூறு வீதமாக ஐக்கிய தேசியகட்சிக்கு வாக்களித்தார்கள் அதேவேளையில் வடகிழக்கில் தமிழர்கள் ஈழக்கோரிக்கையை ஆதரித்து பிரிவினை […]

By mahinda Assume if in a worst scenario my3 elected even with thin majority, the country being pushed in to a total chaos is unavoidable ending up with a total destruction and long standing quagmire to the entire country and public there onwards. First there will be conflict situations among themselves who will be the […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග විල්සන්ට වෘත්තියක් නැත. එහෙත් ඔහුට රැුකියාවක් තිබේ. ඔහු අනියම් මුරකරුවෙකි. රුකියාව ස්ථිර රැුකියාවක් නොවුවද දැන් වසර ගණනාවක් පුරා ඔහු රැුකියාවට යයි. ඔහුට දැන් එය ස්ථිර රැුකියාවක් බඳුය. එම නිසා රැුකියාව ස්ථිර කර ගැනීමට ආයාචනා, උද්ඝෝෂණ, මාරාන්තික උපවාස යනාදිය කිසිවක් කිරීම සඳහා ඔහු යොමු නොවීය. විල්සන්ගේ බිරිඳ පමණක් ඉඳහිට ”නරකද රස්සාව ස්ථිර […]

Sarojini Dutt Hardly had the government announced the forthcoming Presidential Election when the Evil twins, Horrible and Terrible, emerging from the cracks, met up with some of the international lowlifes they had consorted with during Sri Lanka’s terrorist conflict. Eric Solheim in his somewhat sleazy autobiography makes reference to another dubious Norwegian Arne Fjortoft, as […]

  Ven. Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, Ven. Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, the General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organization has accused former Justice Minister and Sri Lanka Muslin Congress (SLMC) Leader Rauff Hakeem of being a political prostitute” who stood up against the government at all the Presidential elections. Gnanasara Thera said that Rauff […]

By Matt Peppe | June 30, 2014 In this April 1, 2014, photo, a book street vendor passes the time on her smart phone as she waits for customers in Havana, Cuba. (AP/Ramon Espinosa) News from the AP about the U.S. government’s secret project to create a Cuban Twitter or ZunZuneo,” to be used for disseminating propaganda […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  A world renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a prison simulation study in 1971 at the Stanford University with his student volunteers. He randomly divided these volunteers into guards and inmates and then placed in a mock prison environment. This study continued for six days and Zimbardo observed radical behavioural changes […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: Two Bengali Nobel laureates from Indian sub-continent have been ranked 3rd and 5th among global influential thinkers in 2014 Global Thought Leader survey.  The worldwide survey, carried out by the Zurich-based Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for Economic & Social Studies (GDI) and MIT Sloan School researcher Peter Gloor, put Bengali economist Amartya […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (Courtesy The Nation On Sunday, where this article originally appeared under a different title) It was reported recently in the media that the Beta Analytic Radiocarbon Dating laboratory in Miami in Florida, the largest professional radiocarbon dating facility in the world, has concluded that a piece of charcoal found embedded in […]