Shenali D Waduge In 1815 a selfish set of Chieftans handed over the Sinhale nation to the British. Within no time these chieftans became sidelined and the white-masters began rule over the servants using sepoys and lascoreens who were ready to betray their own for titles and perks. The whites left in 1948 but they […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS Jaffna was a part of the Sinhala kingdom up to the 12th century .  Around    1247 or so, a Malay (Javaka) ruler, called Chandrabanu from the Buddhist kingdom of Ligor (now Nakon Sri Thammarat in Thailand)  invaded the Dambadeniya kingdom. He was defeated by Parakrama Bahu II (1236-70). There is reason to believe […]

Ranjith Soysa Media Spoekman For Global Sri Lankan Forum 1 st June 2016 . Within a very short period of seven years, the politicians have forgotten that they are today living in peace, in particular in the North and the East provinces because of the sacrifices of the heroic armed forces. The NPC Chief Ministers […]

By Ranjit Abeywardena There is an easy solution to make the Sri Lankan Airlines viable again! The government needs to be thinking seriously about making it a charter service to ferry American and British politicians, government and military officials between Colombo, London and Washington. Judging by the current volume of traffic, the Colombo-London-Washington route is […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න          මෙය ජාතික විමුක්ති අරගලයකින් සමාජවාදය උදාකිරීමේ උපායමාර්ගික ගමන්මඟ අනුව ක්‍රියාවට නැගූ ජවිපෙ 2වැනි කැරැල්ලේදී ඝාතන 41ක් සිදුකල අයෙකුගේ කථාවකි. කොන්දේසි විරහිතව අසීමිත ප්‍රේමයකින් ජවිපෙට සහ ජවිපෙ අරමුණවලට ආදරයකල ඒ ප්‍රේමය නිසාම පොදු මිනිස් සංහතියේ සතුරන්ට එරෙහිව උතුරායන වෛරයකින් පිරීගිය මිනිසෙකුගේ කථාවකි. ඒ ආදරය මෙන්ම වෛරයද ජවිපෙ ඉහළ නායකත්වයේ දෘෂ්ටිමය මඟපෙන්වීමකට […]

Janaka Perera  දියුණු යයි සම්මත බටහිර ජාතියක් සතුන් සමග සංසර්ගයේ යෙදෙන බව අසා තිබේද? එහෙත් එය ඇත්තකි.  ඒ ජාතිය නම් සාමයේ නාමයෙන් අපට දෙමළ කොටින් සමග ‘සහවාසයේ’ යෙදෙන්නට ආරාධනය කල  නෝවීජියානුවන්ය.   මේ බව මුලින්ම හෙලිකලේ ඔස්ලෝ නුවර පලවන The Journal නම් විද්‍යා සඟරාවයි. වසර 28කට පසු  නෝවීජියානු රජය මගින් සතුන් සමග සංසර්ගයේ යෙදීම දෙවන වරටත් 2010 […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   He who looks like a butterfly Stings like a bee No scares in his face He is the champion of champions When he was drafted He refused to kill the yellow man He said they did not call me a nigger So I will not go to Nam   He defeated […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today  Media is the creation of just about anything in an organized society which encompasses experiences and sensations at different social levels where discrepancies and dissimilarities create or expose of media institutions, media industries or individuals. Its ultimate character is influenced by the interaction of the media organisation with […]

By Ravi Ratnasabapathy Courtesy CAPX June 03 (CAPX) Last week, the Sun newspaper in the UK claimed that a factory in Sri Lanka that produces a line of clothing for a popular singer Beyonce is using sweatshop ‘slaves’. The report attracted little interest in Sri Lanka, partly because attention was more focused on the devastating floods […]

By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MONICA DAVEYMAY 13, 2016 Courtesy nytimes.com WASHINGTON — Experts cannot agree on what to call a recent rise in homicides, much less its cause, but new data on Friday that showed a sharp spike in homicide rates in more than 20 cities rekindled debate over whether it was time for alarm. The data showed particularly […]

Concerned Ex Dockyard Worker If you could  remember the day on which when the new  CEO walked into this company premises in 1994, which was under Japanese Management, discipline was absolutely at a low ebb and company burdened with heavy debts, workers not performing to their fullest capacity, trade unions playing hell, company continuing business […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati, June 4: The Narayana Super-specialty Hospital has offered the Journalist Privilege Cards to the member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club.  Over 175 health cards were distributed among the scribes in a function held today at GPC auditorium. Senior officials of the north Guwahati based hospital including Amit G. Choudhury, Shantanu Bhattacharjee with […]

By Ven. K. Ariyarathana “Those eight individuals praised by the virtuous, [(or) Those individuals numbering one hundred and eight praised by the wise] those couples are four (in number); those disciples of the Enlightened One are worthy of offerings;” ……….. (SN, 11.1) Noble Individuals are categorised in different ways in different contexts. Most frequently, we […]

Courtesy The Island June 4, 2016, 7:06 pm N. Kodituwakku & Co., Attorney-at-law (SL) & Solicitor (UK) has issued notice on President Maithripala Sirisena urging him to “stop the abuse of tax revenue with permits issued  to MPs granting full waiver of all forms of tax normally charged on motor vehicles”. Attorney Nagananda Kodituwakku says […]

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