H. L. D. Mahindapala In continuing last week’s article on how lies manufactured and manipulated by charismatic leaders and mediocre theorists can distort the perceptions of the masses and lead societies to violence  I must make a brief diversion, before I come to the local context – my main purpose —  to focus on how […]

By Rohana R. Wasala We have all read or heard Aesop’s fable ‘The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey’: A man and his young son set out taking their donkey to market to sell it there. Listening to different censorious comments of a number of people they encountered on the road, they first rode the […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර  මේ රටේ සැබෑ නිදහස් දිනය පැවැත්විය යුත්තේ මැයි මස 22 දා මිස පෙබරවාරි 4 දා නොවේ. මන්ද පළමුව 48 පෙබරවාරි 4 දා අපගේ මව්බිමට හා සිංහල ජාතියට පූර්ණ නිදහස නොලැබුණු නිසාය.  දෙවනුව අර්ධවශයෙන් හෝ මේ රටට කිසියම් දේශපාලන නිදහසක් ලැබුණේ 1972 මැයි මස ජනරජයක් වශයෙන් ප‍්‍රකාශ කළ දා බැවිනි. 1972 සිට 1977 […]

MICHAEL HUDSON AND PEPE ESCOBAR Courtesy UNZ Review High-ended retailer Saks Fifth Avenue added private security, fencing and barbed wire ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest in New York, June 7. 2020. (Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar last month took a hard look at rent and rent-seeking at the […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය විදුර වික්‍රමනායක ජාතික උරුම ප්‍රාසාංග කලා හා ග්‍රාමීය කලා ශිල්පී ප්‍රවර්ධන කටයුතු රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය. දශක ගණනාවක් පුරා ස්වර්ණමය පරිච්ඡේදයක් ඉතිහාසයට එක් කළ ජනමාධ්‍ය ලෝකය දික්විජය කළ කලාකීර්ති කලාසූරී ආචාර්ය එඩ්වින් ආරියදාස නම් වූ ඒ අසහාය යුග පුරුෂයාණන් අප අතරින් සමු ගත්තේ අපේ රටේ සියලූම දෙනාට උගත හැකි බොහෝ දේ ඉතිරි කර තබමින්. එමෙන්ම […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree I travel the world and the seven seas Everybody’s looking for something. Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Ayurvedic practitioner Dhammika Bandara said he was not responsible for Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi contracting COVID-19, as she had failed to follow his advice on taking the syrup made by him. In a Facebook post, he said when taking his herbal syrup, people should avoid smoking, consuming  alcoholic liquor and avoid […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් කොරෝනා වෛරසය සඳහා තමන් විසින් හඳුන්වා දුන් ඖෂධය සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමතිනි පවිත්‍රා වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය භාවිතා කළ ආකාරය වැරදෙන්නට ඇතැයි කෑගල්ලේ ධම්මික බණ්ඩාර මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. තමන් විසින් නියම කරන ලද මාත්‍රාව අනුව හරියටම ඖෂධය භාවිත කලේ නම් වෛරසය ආසාදන නොවන බවද ඔහු පවසයි. නියමානුකූල පිළිවෙතට මෙම ඖෂධය පානය කළ අය මෙතෙක් […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines manufactured in India is expected to arrive in Sri Lanka on the 27th of January. Accordingly, Sri Lanka will be receiving the 500,000 vials of doses with the first vaccine consignment. The President’s remarks came during the ‘Gama Samaga Pilisandara’ programme held […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has reported two more coronavirus related deaths today (January 230, the Director-General of Health Services confirmed. One of the deceased is a 69-year-old male from Mount Lavinia who had passed away at the Homagama Base Hospital yesterday (January 22). He had been transferred from the Colombo National Hospital upon being diagnosed […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s Covid-19 numbers saw another surge today, as 371 more persons were tested positive for the virus. Department of Government Information confirmed that all 371 of the newly-identified patients are close contacts of earlier cases linked to the Peliyagoda fish market. Accordingly, a total of 724 new cases have been reported within […]

Courtesy Adaderana Covid-19 positive Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi is currently receiving treatment at an intermediate hotel quarantine centre in Hikkaduwa, the minister’s media secretary said. Minister Wanniarachchi was tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday (January 22) in a rapid antigen test. She is the fifth Member of Parliament to contract the virus after State Ministers Dayasiri […]

BBC Newsnight Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. How does this affect the road out of lockdown? However, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers – and vaccines are still expected to work. The virus’s reproduction rate is estimated […]

BBC Newsnight Some viewers may find this film distressing As the UK coronavirus death toll reaches record levels, Newsnight returns to Salisbury District Hospital joining the ITU staff for a full 12 hour shift as they struggle to cope with the relentless influx of patients.

Was TNA created by the LTTE in 2001? Yes.Press release on 22 Oct 2001 was signed by Sampanthan for TULF, N.Kumarakuruparan  for ACTC, N. Srikantha  for TELO & K.Premachandran for EPRLF. Why was TNA formed by LTTE in 2001? 9/11 sparked fears of actions against terrorist movements so TNA as LTTE’s political wing came into […]