By Shelton A. Gunaratne (11 September 2015) Professor of communication emeritus, MSUM, and lead author of Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (New York: Routledge, 2015) MOORHEAD, MN — Considering the rapid flux of political imponderables in Sri Lanka over the last few weeks, I shall strictly follow Buddha’s […]

Courtesy The Nation Nimal Lanza and Anura Yapa are both members of the spanking new Cabinet which is so large, it can only be convened at the Nelum Pokuna. But, Keheliya Rambukwella, Dullas Alahaperuma and Shashindra Rajapaksa have been brought before the Presidential Commission on financial crimes. The size of the Cabinet is enormous and […]

 Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara  The above Sinhala Adage came to my mind as I was watching what is going on in the political field around us. What this famous saying connotes is once you have given your coconut estate on an outright lease there is no point in looking for a coconut from that place […]

By Uditha Devapriya Courtesy The Nation Ideological orientation can divide those who preach the same thing. It is hence astounding how those who favor end bicker over process. It is also unbelievable that those who privilege certain (political) outcomes can debate with (and against) both colleague and foe. Federalists, hence, have a gripe with nationalists, but […]

By Sudat Pasqual  Courtesy The Nation The August 17 election was called by President Maithripala Sirisena when it became obvious that the minority government imposed on the country as a result of an electoral pact between the President and the main opposition group UNP was no longer tenable. The convoluted electoral arrangement between the President […]

by Senaka Weeraratna To a human being there is no greater treasure than freedom. The right to life and liberty are the most cherished fundamental rights guaranteed in our Constitution. In claiming our right to these freedoms we become morally obliged to recognize the rights to freedom in others: particularly in other non – human living […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. සැබෑ ලෙසම මේ ගැටළුව මෙරට පැවතීම මහා විහිළුවකි. එලෙසම මෙවන් ගැටළුවක් මෙරට පැවතීමම මෙරට මුළු මහත් ජන සමාජයට බලවත් නින්දාවකි. 90% ක් බත් කන මිනිසුන් සිටින රටක වී ටික විකුණ ගන්න නොහැකිව ගොවියන් වහ බින්නේ නම්, තවත් තැනෙක සදහන් ආකාරයට කදුළු බොන්නේ නම්, ජාතියේ පරාධීනත්වය ඇත්තේ එතන බව සියළු දෙනාම අවබෝධ කරගත […]

Chandrasena Pandithage සීපා ගිවිසුම අත්සන් තැබීමට ආසන්නව ඇත. අප එයට විරුද්ධ වුවද එහි පලයන් හා අපට ජීවත් වීමට වර්තමාන පාලකයින් අපට ඉඩ සලසනු ඇත. එබැවින් දැන්ම සිට මේ ගීතය ගැයීමට මුලු ජාතියම එකතු වෙමු. දැන්මම පුහුණුවීම අරඹමු. Song of the era One little, two little, three little Indians Four little, five little, six little,  Indians […]

Ranjit Wickremeratne I am a voter with a broken heart because of ungrateful people whom I have to live with in this cruel society. I never ever thought in my life time that Prabakaran could be defeated because of many countries involved and helped Prabakaran and his ruthless murderous organization with money and weapons to […]

By mahinda karunaratne My tribute to those who dies at site, until I learnt that it was a CIA & US Govt. conspiracy to escape bankruptcy blame at home and justify attacking Iraq!  After both Aircrafts were broken in to the two towers (file photo) Although nostalgia to me after 12 years, but the fear, […]

A Special Lecture at RASSL A lecture on “Indic (South Asian) contributions to global mathematics” by Prof C.K. Raju of the Centre for Studies in Civilizations in New Delhi will be held on Thursday 17th September at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07. He is author of 12 books and dozens of […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය වසර ගණනාවක් නඩු පැවරීමක් තොරව රැදවුම් භාරයේ සිටින දේශපාලන සිරකරුවන් සියලු දෙනා නිදහස් කිරීම කෙරෙහි සලකා බලන ලෙස කැෆේ සංවිධානය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය නීතිපතිවරයාගෙන් සහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ප්‍රමුඛ දේශපාලන නායකත්වයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටී. මේ වන විට විවිධ චෝදනා යටතේ නඩු පවරා හෝ නඩු පැවරීමකින් තොරව […]