Says Rahul  The people of the US lifted their eyes toward the skies in gratitude when the ‘Atlantic Spring’ rained a gentle rain of democracy over their country, long parched by a Neo liberal autocracy; Trump successfully led a ‘Red Cap’ Colour Revolution of the people against the Clinton- Obama regime that has its hands […]

Shenali D Waduge This was an election where media stood exposed for its open bias, a feature unexpected but one that propelled the people to undo the injustice. The election was a display of watching America defeat itself. It has shown that America does not have an honest mainstream media. The media campaign for Hillary […]

Dilrook Kannangara UNP has come up with yet another budget disaster. Its 2017 budget taxes the productive and rewards freeloaders. This will spell doom for the economy which is already reeling under fiscal mismanagement, astronomical corruption and an unstainable foreign debt. Party politics is written all over the budget. UNP regime plans to give tax […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි දැන් ආපසු හැරී බලන විට ඇමරිකාවත් අපෙන් ඉගෙන ගත්තාදෝ සිතෙයි. එනම් අපේ රට කරවන ඇත්තන් තමන් ජාත්‍යන්තරය ජය ගත්තා යැයි කියා ඇත්තේ කට කසනවාට නොවේ. ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ 45 වන වරට ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකු පත් කරගැනීම සඳහා චන්ද විමසීම පැවතුනේ නොවැම්බර්  8 වන දා ය. මේ වන විට රාජ්‍ය බලය දරන ඩිමොක්‍රටික් පක්ෂයේ අපේක්ෂිකාව වූයේ […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  “Buddhism helps man to find an answer to the question of his existence, an answer which is essentially the same as that given in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and yet which does not contradict the rationality, realism, and independence which are modern man’s precious achievements. Paradoxically, Eastern religious thought turns out to […]

Dr.Tilak S. Fernando  The country’s most influential opinion leaders were amongst the VIP guests of a very distinguished gathering at the ‘Sri Lankan of the Year’ awards ceremony held recently at the Hilton Hotel. It was an event of international standard and an initiative of Ada Derana, a premium news and entertainment media network of […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expressed shock over the killing of one more scribe in Bihar of central India and reiterated its old demand for a special protection law for the benefit of brave journalists across the country. According to the local media, unidentified criminals shot dead Dharmendra Kumar Singh at Amra […]

The Island November 12, 2016, 9:13 pm Editor Senaka Weeraratna presenting the book to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa with Chief Justice K. Sripavan and Attorney-General Jayantha Jayasuriya at the event. The inaugural C. R. de Silva Memorial Oration was delivered by former Attorney-General Palitha Fernando, PC. at the BMICH in the […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE My Dear Charles In many ways parallels can be drawn between SWRD and MR. As we see now, SWRD’s job was far more easier in 1956 than for MR now. SWRD changed the religion, which gave an instant vote winning qualification. MR remained as Buddhist as before. SWRD had great […]

Szu Ping Chan Donald Trump’s plan for sweeping tax cuts and deregulation will spur a US economic boom that could “last for generations” if the president-elect resists a lurch towards protectionism, according to an architect of “Reaganomics”. Arthur Laffer, who advised Republican president Ronald Reagan in the 1980’s and UK Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, said lower, […]