By M D P DISSANAYAKE Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe, who became the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka through the back door has so far conducted the affairs of the nation as a Dictator.  Even though he has no Executive Powers yet, his methodologies of governance fall short of democratic methods.    His rise to the power with […]

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නලින් ද සිල්වා මෛත්‍රිපාලට කෙසේ වෙතත් රනිල්ට ගෙදර යෑමට කාලය පැමිණ ඇත. ඔහු යන දිනය නිශ්චිත ව කීමට නොහැකි වුවත් බරක් ඔබාමාට, ජෝන් කෙරීට, නරේන්ද්‍රසිං මෝදිට, සෝනියා ගාන්ධිට, ඩේවිඩ් කැමරන්ට, එඩ් මිලිබෑන්ඩ්ට, විදේශීය ඔත්තු සේවාවලට හා දෙමළ ජාතිවාදීන්ට අවශ්‍ය අන්දමට මෙරට පාලනය කිරීමට නොහැකි බව රනිල් මෙන් ම මෛත්‍රිපාල ද තේරුම් ගත යුතු ය. මෛත්‍රිපාල […]

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H.L.D. Mahindapala On January 8th, 2015 the nation elected Maithripala Sirisena believing that he would make a difference. His main task was to preside over the constitutional transition from a presidential system to a parliamentary system. To impress that he was not craving for power he promised to be the one-term caretaker president who will […]

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Shenali D Waduge Let us get down to the crux of the matter. Sri Lanka is a small nation but it is a small nation with a very long recorded history and a longer civilizational history. The nation was built with a history and the hela people today make up over 70% of the population. […]

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 Manohara R. de Silva The declared objective of the 19th Amendment was to abolish the Executive Presidency and to establish Independent Commissions” as it was supposed to have been  done under the 17th Amendment. The 19th Amendment Bill sought to transfer almost all of the powers of the President to the Prime- Minister. The Supreme Court has however […]

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නලින් ද සිල්වා මේ  ලැබූ අවුරුද්ද බතින් බුලතින් කෙසේ වෙතත් බුලටින් (වෙඩි උණ්ඩ මෙන් ම නිවේදන ද යන ද්විත්ව අරුතින්) සපිරි අවුරුද්දක් වීමට ඉඩ ඇත. මෙය ජ්‍යොතිෂය අනුව කරන අනාවැකියක් නොව දේශපාලන ලෝකයෙහි සිදුවීමට ද එහෙත් වළක්වා ගැනීමට ද හැකියාව (සම්භාවිතාවක්) ඇති කරුණකි. සුද්දන්ගේ ඒරාෂ්ටකයක් සිංහලයන්ට ලබා ඇත. සිංහලයන්ගේ ලග්නාධිපති නීච ය. අඟහරු ද නීච […]

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Rowena Sepali Fernando in London Being born to Sri Lankan parents, yet growing and presently living/working in London, has created a somewhat disconnection to my motherland and sense of misplacement to my current land! Yet from early years I was always visiting Sri Lanka with family where we would visit other family members whilst absorbing […]

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Tissa Gunatilaka, Sydney It seems that we Sinhala Buddhists play ball to ball without having an overall strategy against the present dilemma, like our cricket team which consists of bunch of misfits. When My3 & Ranil (with the trickery of that woman behind) send different balls at a time: today it is a bribery ball, […]

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