By Charles.S.Perera It is really not worth replying to People’s Forum and Kautilya, but it hurts when falsehood is propagated to make fools of the intelligent ordinary people of Sri Lanka. This Government of UNP- Ranil, Maithripala Sirisena and Chandrika exists on falsehood trying to hoodwink the people continuously running down Mahinda Rajapakse, the  greatest […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා  කතානායක යනු ඉංගිරිසි ආකෘතියේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවක වැදගත් ධුරයකි. ඒ තනතුර දරන්නාගේ මූලික වගකීම පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ හා එහි මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ ගෞරවය රැකීම ය. එහෙත් කරු ජයසූරිය කතාකරන්නේ ශ්‍රී ල නි පක්‍ෂය දෙකඩ කිරීම ගැන ය. ඔහුට අනුව ශ්‍රී ල නි ප දෙකඩ කිරීමට හවුල්වීම පාපකර්මයකි. ඔහු එයින් කියන්නේ ඔහු ශ්‍රි ල නි පක්‍ෂය රැකීමට ක්‍රියාකරන බව […]

TEXT OF PETITION February 4 is a day when Sri Lankans look back with immense pride on the long road our forefathers took to free our beloved island from foreign domination. This year, that pride is tempered with the reality of the numerous indignities being heaped on our nation by foreign powers and other threats […]

Shenali D Waduge Brad Adams of Human Rights Watch has spoken. He says Mr. Fonseka’s appointment is a breach of trust for victims and families who believed in this government’s commitment to deliver justice for war crimes.” The election of 2010 just months after the elimination of the LTTE ground force and the manner that […]

Shenali D Waduge US President Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Heads of the US Armed Forces actually watched live while US Navy Seals killed enemy Osama bin Laden. The entire world lit crackers in jubilation. Just 1 attack was enough for Al Qaeda & Osama to be branded terrorists. UN Secretary General did not ask […]

By A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA The government with the blind backing of its stooges, the JVP hooligans and the TNA separatists has no concern at all for the national, cultural and religious values of this country which has been deemed and safeguarded as sacred for nearly 3,000 years. The so-called Ministers, the new breed called the […]

Kanthar Balanathan, Australia  The sovereignty, democracy, national security, reconciliation process are growing to be under threat as a result of significant number of unnecessary, churlish, rash actions by India, the West and the UN. This is not a contention, but looking on a lateral view: political analysts, learned people will agree that foreign sinusoidal seagull […]

ETCA Rally Dr Anuruddha Padeniya

Susantha Wijesinghe It is with great deference and appreciation, we see, that you took note of indecent remarks made by a  Reporter on the song sung by Miss Kishani Jayasinghe, in her own inimitable style, for which she is talented, and has training on International stage. I see that you have even threatened to cancel licences of such […]

Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya 13.2.2016. I was just nine years and in grade four in school when Sri Lanka got Independence from the British in 1948. We were told by teachers that we got full independence from British rule and thereafter we will have our own government instead of a […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) is arguably Sri Lanka’s greatest national hero that emerged between 1815 – the year that the kingdom of Sinhale was brought under foreign imperial rule in its entirety for the first and the last time in its more than two thousand years of unbroken existence – […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge We openly advocate organized terror. . . . Terror, in times of revolution, is an absolute necessity  – Felix Dzerzhinsky  Polish and Russian revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926) headed Cheka (the Soviet secret police) from 1917 to 1926. He was known as Iron Felix for his mercilessness and apathy. Ironically by nature […]

 Dr Sarath Obeysekera Much hype about Sri Lanka to be a hub for marina users and convert Galle and Mirrissa  into a Marinas for yacht owners to patronize Sri Lanka and yet one should seriously analyse the infrastructure including basic facilities to be available for the tourists to enjoy when they are in Sri Lanka […]

By Concerned citizen How about investigating the following for a start: 1.0 Daham Sirisena’s huge stash of Foreign Currency.  See: http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=116619 http://www.asiantribune.com/node/86130 2.0 Implement the recommendations of the Batalanda Commission report. According to this report RW’s civic rights should have been removed.  3.0 How about also investigating Central Bank Governor who did a day light robbery of […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernand Priantha Fernando is a Senior Tourism and Management Consultant. He was a former Director of Marketing of the Ceylon Tourist Board. Fernando accounts for over 43 years of experience in the Tourist Industry, Public and Private Sectors. His expertise extends beyond tourism covering other fields such as, Employment Services, Hotel […]

ධර්මන් වික‍්‍රමරත්න වසරක් පුරා හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට ඔවුහු නින්දා අපහාස කලහ. හොරෙක්, වංචාකාරයෙක්, මීනීමරුවෙකුයැයි ඇඟවෙන පරිදි චෝදනාද කළහ. අවසානයේ කිසිවක් ඔප්පුකර ගැනිමට නොහැකිවූ තැන දරුවන්ට චෝදනා හදමින් රිමාන්ඩ් ගත කර නිහඬ කිරීමට උත්සාහ කළහ. ලක්ෂයකට ආසන්න ජීවිත සංඛ්‍යාවක් බිලිගත් දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදී ත්‍රස්තවාදී යුද්ධය නිමාකල රටක කඳුළු පිස දැමූ මිනිසාගේ දෑසේ කඳුළු දුටුවෙමු. එහෙත් ඒ […]