Shenali D Waduge There will never be an election as the 2016 US Presidential Election. It completely devastated predictions by all types of political pundits, it rose above the ridiculing, sneering, lies and exaggerations by mainstream media (foreign & local) who projected him as Hitler canvassing unethically for one candidate, it has embarrassed the high […]

Dilrook Kannangara There are eerie similarities between US ethnic composition and that of Sri Lanka. Without a doubt demographics, importantly, ethnic divisions, play the most important role in elections in all multiethnic democracies. Minorities in particular tend to caste their vote as a block which gives them a voting power above their percentage weight. This […]

Asoka Weerasinghe  Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 9 November 2016 Mark Holland, Liberal MP for Ajax, Ontario House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario. Dear Mark: Re: First Annual General Meeting of the Canada-Tamil Parliamentary Friendship Group Some one out there had sent me your note to your Parliamentary Colleagues informing of the […]

All Ceylon General Ports Employee Union ශ‍්‍රි ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරියට අයත් නැගෙනහිර පර්යන්තය (ECT) පෞද්ගලික සමාගමක් වෙත විකුණා දැමීමට අදාලව ආණ්ඩුව ගෙන ඇති තීරණය හා ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ග වලට එරෙහිව සේවකයන් පෙළ ගැස්වීමේ ක‍්‍රියාවලිය සාර්ථක ලෙස මේ වන විට ඉදිරියට ඇදෙමින් පවතී. සාර්ථක උද්ඝෝෂණයකින් පසුව දියත් කරන ලද විරෝධතා පෙත්සම අත්සන් ගැනීම කොළඹ වරාය තුළ මේ වන විට […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Rangana has retired from ODI   and T20. but willingly accepted the role of skipper for the Zimbabwe series, winning the series for the country 2-0 and adding further 19 wickets in just 2 test matches. It must be noted that his team had only two seniors, Upul Tharanga and […]

Global Sri Lankan Forum මහජන පෙත්සම – අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ඉවත් කරනු… ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ මෙතෙක් සිදු වී ඇති විශාලතම වංචාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පොදු ව්‍යාපාර පිලිබඳ කාරක සභාව (COPE) විසින් විමර්ශනය කරන ලද අතර එහි අවසාන නිගමනය වූයේ, මෙම වංචාව මහා බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති වන අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන් හා වත්මන් අගමැති වන රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා  ඇතුළත්ව තවත් පුද්ගලයින් කීප […]

Dr Hector Perera      London I received lots of emails from Sri Lanka then from other countries as well after watching my energy saving cooking programme in Sirasa TV in Sri Lanka. They all appreciated my attempt to save energy and to avoid any smell depositing on them while cooking. I replied to many then one […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   Viragaya novel is a turning point in Sinhala literature. Literary genius Martin Wicramasinghe vibrantly portrays Aravinda’s character in Viragaya digging deep in to his inner psyche. Arvada’s conscious experience and ideas running through his mind are central part of the novel.  His emotions, conscious and unconscious psychological conflicts are described in a […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The term Holodomor refers specifically to the brutal artificial famine imposed by Stalin’s regime on Soviet Ukraine and primarily ethnically Ukrainian areas in the Northern Caucasus in 1932-33. In the spring of 1933, the rural population of Ukraine was dying at a rate of 25,000 a day, half of them children. […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   The mythological Story of Sinhabahu describes the origins of the ‘Sinhala’ race. The Sinhalese are an ethnic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese speak Sinhala -an Indo-Aryan language (Lewis, 2009).The name Sinhala translates to lion people. According to the Sinhabahu mythology, the Princess Suppadevi of Vanga Kingdom (a […]