Archive for December, 2016
Thursday, December 29th, 2016
Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The Sri Lankan society experienced a 30 year prolonged armed conflict that changed the psychological landscape of the Islanders. A large number of combatants, civilians and the members of the LTTE underwent the detrimental repercussions of combat trauma. Following the armed conflict in Sri Lanka over 90,000 people lost their […]
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Thursday, December 29th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග ඈන් රණසිංහ ඔබ යන්නට ගියේය අප හැරදා ඔබ යන්නටම ගියේය හිට්ලර් ගේ යුදෙවු සංහාරයේ ජීවමාන සාක්ෂිය වූ ඔබ නික්ම ගියේය ඔබ ගියද ඔබගේ කවි අප අතරය නට්සි මිනීමරුවන් ගැන ඔබ ලියූ කවි මිනිසුන් සහාසික ලෙස මරා දැමූවන් ඔවුන්ගේ ඝාතන දෙස උකටලීව බලා සිටියවුන් යනාදීන් ගැන ලියූ කවි අප අතරය
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් 2017 වසරේ රටේ දේශපාලනය, නායකයින්ට සුබ අසුබ ආදිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජ්යෙතිශවේදී සුජිත් නිශාන්ත අදහස් පල කරයි. ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට එන ජනවාරි 26 ග්රහ මාරුවෙන් ඉතා අපල බවත් ඔහුගේ ආරක්ෂාව ඉතා දැඩි කල යුතු බවත් ඔහු සදහන් කරයි. එසේම 2017 වසරේදී ජනාධිපතිවරයා නායකත්වය දෙමින් තරග වදින දේශපාලන පක්ෂය එන […]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Auburn side, Dehiwela The traffic jam in Dehiwela and Wellawathe is killing to say the least, specially after 5 pm. As the Galle road traffic moves practically at snail pace, many take the marine drive and join the Galle road through Frazer avenue. In spite of a traffic police man being […]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
සීමා නිර්ණය කමිටු වාර්තාව බාරදීම සිතා මතා කල් දමන කමිටු සමාජිකයින්ට, අමාත්යාංශ නිලධාරීන්ට එරෙහිව අධිකරණයේ පිහිට පතනවා – කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් සීමා නිර්ණය කමිටුව හා පළාත් සභා සහ පළාත් පාලන අමාත්යාංශය එක්ව සිතා මතා ඡන්දය කල් දැමීමේ දුෂ්ඨ ක්රියා පිළිවෙතකට යොමු වී ඇති බැවින් එයට වගකිවයුතු සියළු දෙනාට එරෙහිව අධිකරණ ක්රියාමාර්ග කරා යොමුවීමට කටයුතු කරන බව කැෆේ […]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
Vasu reiterates that PM should resign immediately බොරු වාර්තා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට දුන්නා
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
Courtesy Adaderana It is suspicious whether the government is eyeing to protect the wrongdoers in the treasury bond scam, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) asserts on Monday. Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Chairman and JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti made the observation while speaking at a press conference held in Battaramulla. Handunnetti also slammed the government […]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
– By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana The Joint Opposition today claimed that the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) has collapsed to such an extent that it is even unable to pay employees’ wages. Brokerage firms are continuing to close down their offices located in rural areas, UPFA MP Bandula Gunawardena said. He said that the latest reason […]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 27, 2016, 7:27 pm A veteran Sri Lankan diplomat asserted that India wants Sri Lanka to be an Indian aircraft carrier. “China wants Sri Lanka to be a Chinese sub dock yard. The US wants it to be a back-stop for Diego Garcia. The previous SLFP-led Rajapaksa administration caused […]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island Dr U. P. de S Waidyanatha’s (Dr W) gyrations against the suggestion of this writer in The Island of 7 December, that the ban on Glyphosate should be maintained in view of its suspected role on the Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown origin (CKDu) are typical of the tactics […]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2016
Courtesy The Island December 27, 2016, 8:25 pm Memory is something we all take for granted. Our ability to learn, retain information for short- or long-term periods, recognise individuals, objects, and to recall previous events or learning experiences, all depend on memory. It has been thought till recently that memory starts at birth and then […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The ”self-image” is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior.” Maxwell Maltz Gradual personality changes can be normal with the aging process and experience that one receives. It is a part of human development. Psychologists generally view personality as one […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 27 December, 2016 OPEN LETTER to Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka & Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. Prime Minister’s Office Colombo 1, Sri Lanka cc; His Eminence Archbishop […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
දෙරණ නාලිකාවේ පැවති 360 වැඩසටහනේ මෙවර ප්රශ්න කෙරුණේ ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණු නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශයන්ගෙනි. දිගු කලකට පසු රූපවාහිනී සාකච්චාවකදි පැමිනි ඔහු දෙපැයකට ආසන්න කාලයක් තිස්සේ පැවති සාකච්චාවේදී යහපාලන දෙවසරක කාලය තුල රට ගමන් කල ඇති අන්තය ගැන මනා විග්රහයක් සරල සුගම බසින් සිදු කලේය. තම නිවසේ තරුණයෙකු මිය යාම, තමනට එල්ල වී ඇති […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today In 1638, we got the Dutch to dislodge the Portuguese and ended in a worse situation. Then, with the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, which had nothing to do with Sri Lanka, the English took over from the Dutch. Thereafter, we lost the last vestiges of our sovereignty and came […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island December 26, 2016, 8:08 pm What is the compulsion for constitutional reforms? Would these reforms be so extensive as to warrant a ‘new’ constitution, or would they be limited to specific issues that could be incorporated as amendments to the existing constitution? These are some of the questions in the […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
by Gamini Gunawardane Retd. Snr. DIG Courtesy The Island December 26, 2016, 7:59 pm A proposal to devolve police Powers to the Provinces has been made again. Under the yahapalana government’s constitutional reform project, the strict implementation of the provisions for devolution of police powers under the 13th Amendment and more is proposed by the Sub-Committee […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
Editorial The Island December 26, 2016, 8:07 pm The stage is now set for the implementation of a contributory pension scheme for the state employees to be recruited, we are told. Old habits die hard! The UNP-led UNF government (2001-2004) introduced it as part of the much-touted Regaining Sri Lanka project. It was, however, abolished […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the wake of proposals for the reduction of powers of provincial governors in the new Constitution, Southern Province Governor Hemakumara Nanayakkara spoke out against the move. In an interview with , he says a Governor should have more powers to protect the unitary status and to prevent […]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2016
Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today The seven weeks after the press conference at which Maithripala Sirisena announced his candidature were hectic and tense. During the conference itself, I had a telephone call to say that the Presidential Secretariat had called to demand that the vehicle I was using be returned. This struck me as petty and foolish […]
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Monday, December 26th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ඉස්ලාමිකයන්ට යටත්වූ මුස්ලිම් නොවන්නෝ — ”ධිම්මීස් ”හෙවත් මුස්ලිම් නොවන යටත් වුවන්ගේ තත්වය පහත දැක්වේ .””’ලෝකය පන්ති දෙකකට බෙදුනේය .මුස්ලිම් හා මුස්ලිම් නොවන අ ය ලෙසය ..පැවතිය යුතුයය් සලකන ලද්දේ ඉස්ලාමය පමණි .මුස්ලිම් නොවන්නෙකුට උපකාර කල මුස්ලිම් වරයාද දඬුවම් දෙනලදී ”—A .S .TRITON […]
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Monday, December 26th, 2016
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The massive earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia on December 26, 2004, registered a magnitude of nine on the Richter scale. The effect of this earthquake made massive tidal waves that destroyed the costal belt of the northern and southern Sri Lanka. Perhaps this must have been the most catastrophic […]
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Monday, December 26th, 2016
with Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it […]
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Monday, December 26th, 2016
By Shanika Sriyananada Courtesy FT.com The UN, which has estimated that over 40,000 civilians have disappeared during the war in the north, has overlooked the over 65,00 disappearances which occurred in the South during the JVP insurrections from 1986 to 1990, according to former Chairman of the University Grants Commission and Sri Lanka’s former Ambassador […]
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Monday, December 26th, 2016
Susantha Wijesinghe. A lonesome lissome lass, languish In solemn silence, on the Sea Shore, awaiting for Loved Ones in anguish, refusing to believe, they are no more. Twas 26th dreary doomsday December, TSUNAMI rose high, frothing foaming fury, Its verdict was for WORLD to remember, How mercilessly, it can be Judge and Jury. […]
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Sunday, December 25th, 2016
තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි 2016 වසර ගෙවී යන්නට තව සුමානයයි. 2017 ගැන දේශපාලකයන් පවසන විවිධ අදහස් නිසා කුතුහලය පෙරදැරිව ජනතාව පිලිගන්නට බලා සිටින්නේ නව වසරක්ම පමනක් නොවේ. කුමකින් කුමක් සිදුවේද කියන්නට බැරි සිදුවීම් රැසකද පෙරමග ලකුණු පෙනෙයි. ඒ අතර පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය පිලිබඳ පලකරන ඉඟිය ප්රධානය. ජනවාරි 8 වන දා, එනම් ‘ජනතාවගේ ඔලුව හදන‘ විද්වතුන් විසින් […]
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Sunday, December 25th, 2016
Bodu Bala Sena වර්තමාන රජයේ රාජ්ය අමාතය වරයෙකු වන එම්.එල්.ඒ.එම්.හිස්බුල්ලා මහතා විසින් පසුගිය 14 වන දින මෙරට සාමකාමී ජන සමාජයට එරෙහිව කරන ලද වර්ගවාදී තර්ජනය මෙරට බුද්ධි අංශ මෙන්ම සැබෑ සාමය අගයන ජනයා විසින්ද ඉතා බැරෑරුම් ලෙස තේරුම්ගත යුතුව ඇත. එය නිකම්ම තර්ජනයක් නොව මෙරට ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට ( National Security ) එරෙහිව කරන ලද වර්ගවාදී […]
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Sunday, December 25th, 2016
By Dr. Rami Bou Khalil and Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Dr. Rami Bou Khalil යනු ලෙබනනයේ මනෝ වෛද්යවරයෙකි. විශ්ව විද්යාල මහාචාර්යවරයෙකි. ඔහු අරාබි කලාපයේ ප්රකට විද්වතෙකි. එවැනි විද්වතෙකු සමග යූක්රේනියානු ජාතික ලේඛකයෙකු වූ නිකොලායි ගොගෝල් සහ ඔහුගේ මනෝභාවයන් පිලිබඳව පරියේෂණ ලිපියක් එළි දැක්වීමට මට හැකි වීම ගෞරවයක් ලෙස සලකමි. සිංහල පාඨකයන් නිකොලායි ගොගෝල් ගැන දන්නේ […]
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Sunday, December 25th, 2016
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan belonged to the second generation of French psychoanalysts. He was profoundly influenced by Sigmund Freud. Lacan was the first to extensively reread Freud through de Saussure’s linguistic legacy and structuralist method (Marta, 1990). Lacan’s notion return to Freud” emphasizes the radical critique of ego psychology. He reconceptualized Freud using […]
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