BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Building the national integration in Sri Lanka has been a significant issue since independence in 1948 as the Donoughmore reforms initiated in 1928 and the State Council was established by the reforms disguisedly attempted to make communal divisions by British rulers. A similar strategy used in India encouraging communalism between Hindus and […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The Solebury Constitution, which developed the reforms for granting the independence also did not promote the national integration and tried to spread the communalism through the election system. The emergency of 1958 was the first communal struggle obviously echoed in the Sri Lankan society after the independence and the leader of the […]

Bhante Y. Wimala Dear friends and students, The new year 2019 has arrived. It is that time again to take a few moments to relax, reflect and make some positive choices. Following are my affirmations for 2019. Please join me. 1. I will not allow the negativity of others to pollute my mind or disturb […]

Prevention of women entering Temples by Orthodox Hindus in Kerala. This kind of discrimination against women and also lower castes happens all the time in Tamil Nadu and also especially in Northern Sri Lankan Kovils and Temples. But such things are hardly reported. Before the rise of the LTTE, there were protests in Mavattipuram and […]

Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia. It is absolute truth that kids eat free in Australia.  Kids have pets and there are bank accounts for the pets and and pets hospitals and pets cemetries in Australia.  It is also absolute truth that kids and their pets are Australian’s national treasure.  Kids go to school and pets go […]

Stanley Perera Melbourne, Australia. Elon Musc the American Billioner was preparing a capsule to rescue the Thai boys from the cave. This pommy guy who was a cave rescuer said the American can stick his capsule where it hurts.  In response to that tounge lashing American billioner Elon Musc said that pedo guy.  As I did […]

උපතිස්ස පෙරේරා උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම අප හිටපු ජනාධිපතිතුමන්ට යුද ජයග්‍රහණයට ගරුත්වය ලබා දිය යුතුයි. ඉදිරියේදී එතුමන්ට එම ගරුත්වය ලබා දෙමින්, මගේ සුරතින් ඔහුගේ නමින් ගම්මානයක් ඉදිකරන්නට කටයුතු කරනවා යැයි, සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතා පැවැසීය. එස්.ඩබ්ලිව්. ආර්.ඩී. බණ්ඩාරනායක මහතාගේ සහ චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායකගේ නමින්ද ගම්මාන ඉදිකරන බවත්, දේශපාලන කුහකකම් හෝ වෛරය හදවතේ තියා ගනිමින් තමා කටයුතු නොකරන බවත් පැවැසීය. ජාති, […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror While assuming duties as Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Palitha Thewarapperuma said yesterday among the many mistakes done by President Maithirpala Sirisena, the biggest was to promote Sarath Fonseka to the rank of Field Marshal. He said Fonseka did not have qualifications to be promoted to that post and Sri […]

Ajith Siriwardane Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Minister and Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said today he would not allow deputy minister Palitha Thewarapperuma to come to parliament alleging that he was engaged in corrupt activities such as sand mining. Mr. Fonseka told a news conference that he received fewer votes at the 2015 general election than […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror A government formed by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) will launch a fresh probe on the Central Bank bond scam after formulating a separate court, MP Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane said yesterday. When asked about his comment over Colombo Chief Magistrate granting bail on Arjun Aloysius and Kasun Palisena, who […]