Courtesy IndiaToday Amid diplomatic moves to forge closer ties, the festering fishermen’s issue between India and Sri Lanka on Saturday threatened to snowball into a major row with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe justifying his country’s navy shooting intruding Indian fishermen. Wickremesinghe told a television channel that his country’s law has a provision to […]

‘Sri Lankan Patriot’ Since this new Government has come to power, the naval cordon in the Northern seas has been removed. This has created a dangerous precedent and today, Indian fishermen are fishing illegally in Northern Sri Lankan waters using large trawlers and illegal fishing methods which will soon become devoid of any fish to […]

Prof. Hudson McLean A RIVER DOES NOT FLOW BACKWARDS” – By M D P DISSANAYAKE The words from the Pulpit (well presented) and the responses from the Gallery were a joy to read. It is pretty obvious that Mahinda Rajapaksa is a Trade Name, not only in Sri Lanka but building a reputation outside the […]

Kanthar P Balanathan Hon. Mr. Mangala Samaraweera MP Minister of Foreign Affairs, Democratic Socialist Republic of SriLanka, Parliament of SriLanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, STREAMLINING OF SRILANKAN DIRECTION I take this opportunity to write to you, Sir, as a SriLankan Australian, from a country, which upholds, honesty, integrity, and justice, in […]

R Chandrasoma Time was when Sri Lanka had no international significance and its petty affair relating to internal governance did not turn heads or arouse any semblance of fear in other nations. Things have changed since then – there have been quantum shifts in the relations between the Big Powers and new dangers (real or […]

Yak(h)apalanaya news A former village headman who suddenly became the president of Sri Lanka on a Western/Indian inspired regime change plot, hurriedly appointed Former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to UK Dr Chris Nonis, an award winning diplomat in UK, as the protocol adviser and the interpreter after realising that he had neither sufficient knowledge in […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar, Mar.7th, 2015 Re – Zeid warns Lanka on rights probe: Must be as easy as pie to walk into an office vacated by someone as highly biased as his predecessor was, pick up the loads of files attesting to her wasted efforts on the issue albeit perhaps valiantly as she tried […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා හයවැනි දා (ඊයේ) මහින්ද අගමැති අපේක්‍ෂක ලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම සඳහා වූ මහනුවර පවත්වන ලද රැස්වීම අතිශයින් සාරථක ය. ශ්‍රි ල නි පක්‍ෂ පික් පොකට් නායකත්වයට ඉන් අත්වූයේ පරාජයකි. පක්‍ෂයේ මහජන නියෝජිතයන්ට රැස්වීමට සහභාගි තහනම් කිරීමට එහි මධ්‍යම කාරක සභාව තීරණය කර තිබියදීත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී  දිලුම් අමුණුගම වේදිකාවේ ම පෙනී සිටියේ ය. ඒ […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  එළියකන්ද වද  කඳවුරේ හිටපු රැඳවියෙකු වන අජිත් පැරකුම් ජයසිංහ විසින් ලියන ලද ශාස්තෘ නවකතාව තේමා කර ගන්නේ සමාජය වෙනස් කිරීම සඳහා තමන්ට සුවිශේෂ කාර්‍යභාරයක් ඉතිහාසය විසින් පවරා ඇති බවට තරයේ විශ්වාස කරන පුද්ගලයෙකු පිළිබඳවය​. මෙවැනි පුද්ගලයන් ලෝකයේ අනෙකුත් රටවල විවිධ සමාජ වල කාලයෙන්  කාලයෙන්  මතුවෙති.    ශක්තිමත් සදාචාර පද්ධතියක් ඇති ආත්ම […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  Oh what a night They called it Chrystal Night Forcibly breaking the silence Erasing the moon and stars   Oh what a night It was the Kristallnacht   Braking windows and burning Synagogues Beating human flesh in a savage rhythm   Oh what a night They called it the night of retribution The […]